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.

put the original and new diagrams on top of each other and marked the spots where

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

issues with seeing all the

at the new

outline of his body and just a lot

started to draw lines, connecting all

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

going through

that for his entire

And he snorted.

to the side. 'I would essentially need to completely recreate 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

missing the boost from 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 to too many of them, I might never be able to gather enough Mana

diagram with all the changes

start here, move over to here,

stopped commenting on what he was doing in his mind as

furrowed more and more

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

me to easily add in additional Mana pathways. Assuming my new pathways can't incorporate all the ones for my other States, I can just add new ones.

as he looked

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

did some math inside his head. Professor Callen had given Shang way more than just his Spell. After all, Shang also had to know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the changes. Without that, Shang might build himself into a corner

but he eventually finished his

was not

enough, there was a

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

require a lot of Mana to fill, and the

need to let go of about 50% of their Mana. Additionally, the Mana required to actually move my Mana also increases drastically due to the greater

in all, I would lose about 50% of my physical power, making my body only half as powerful as a beast

and diversity. But due to my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about the same while their power reduces by

thought as he tapped his finger

Shang looked at where he was actually tapping and noticed that

Shang remembered the image

Core, huh?' Shang

and added

If any attack hit his chest,

space inside of his head, but there

all the different Mana pathways to the