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 all his Mana pathways

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

all the individual

at the new

his body and just a lot

Shang started to draw lines, connecting all

middle of the finger and then traveled down to the hand, where all the

pathway going through his arm,

entire body and

And he snorted.

during the lengthy process, I would be mostly helpless. I would only be able to move at like a fifth of my speed with a fifth of my power without being able to use any Elements

permanently. It takes a lot of Mana to change a

the diagram with all the

mean, I would need to start here, move over to here, do it

he was doing in his mind as he actually started to

furrowed more and more as

actually do it,' Shang thought.

additional Mana pathways. Assuming my new pathways can't incorporate all the ones for my other States, I

scratched his chin as he

I refuse 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

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 with no way to get

but

he was

there was a humongous

I have to create central pathways

pathways require a lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I

of their Mana. Additionally, the Mana required to actually move my Mana also increases drastically due to the greater volume

would lose about 50% of my physical power, making my body only

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

thought as he tapped his finger

was actually tapping and noticed that he was

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huh?' Shang

the diagram and added a

this was a bad place. If any attack

his head, but there was a bit of space left in his

Shang connected all the different Mana pathways to the