Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang was looking at the diagram with a bloodshot eye as he gripped his hair tight with his hands.

He was stressed.

There were so many changes that needed to be made across all the different pathways that it would essentially revert half of the changes that had been made previously.

There were so many issues that needed to be resolved, and Shang hadn't even reached the shared Mana pathways yet.

Things would only get worse from now on.

Now, Shang truly knew how incredible the Mana pathways actually were.

Sure, they weren't perfect, but they were good enough for everything.

By just changing one tiny thing, Shang had made several attacks straight-up impossible to use.

Shang had been looking at the diagram for hours now, trying to find a way to solve the current issue.

However, he was reaching his limit.

He fixed stuff here and there, but there were simply too many changes across the entire thing, and the new pathways felt completely different from the old ones.

It was like the architectural style of these pathways completely differed from the natural one of his original pathways.

After a while, Shang got distracted.

He felt like it was becoming impossible, and his mind was trying to think of a different solution.

Shang looked at the old and new diagrams again and again.

He looked back and forth.

Right now, Shang wasn't exactly thinking about anything in particular. He was just looking at stuff.

Then, Shang looked at the outer pathways, which looked a bit more orderly and straighter than the natural ones.

Shang looked where they led and scratched the top of his head.

After that, he took out a completely new diagram and began to draw the outline of his body.

each other and marked the spots where all

thousands of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff

human would have huge issues with seeing all the individual points, but Shang's

at the new

there was the outline of his body and

Shang started to draw lines, connecting all

points in one of his fingers went to the middle of the finger and then traveled down to the hand, where all

through his arm, which ended

did that for his entire

And he snorted.

all my Mana pathways. Even more, during the lengthy process, I would be mostly helpless. I would only be able to move at like a fifth of my speed

the advancement. If I change all the Mana pathways, I might lose access to some of them permanently. It takes a lot of Mana to change a Mana pathway, and if I lose access

looked at the diagram with

need to start here,

on what he was doing in his mind as he actually

furrowed more and more as he

could actually do it,' Shang thought. 'I could actually make

additional Mana pathways. Assuming my new pathways can't incorporate all the ones for my other States, I can just add new ones. After all, all my current pathways are straight like pipes,

as he looked at the

to believe that there is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world is very good at creating Mana pathways, and if the solution were so simple, I wouldn't have my

know how to simulate his

several minutes, but

was

there was a humongous

order to bring maximum speed to every spot in my body, I have to create central pathways that are extremely wide and extremely

to fill, and the Mana I can have inside my body is finite at any given

my muscles would need to let go of about 50% of their Mana. Additionally, the Mana required to actually move

about 50% of my physical power, making my body only half

with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about the same while their

he tapped his finger

where he was actually tapping and noticed that he

Shang remembered the image Professor Callen had

huh?' Shang

the diagram and added a round

If any attack hit his chest, he

more space inside of his head, but there was a bit of space left

the different Mana pathways to the