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.

other and marked the spots where all his Mana pathways would

thousands upon thousands of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper could draw new stuff with terrifying accuracy. It was almost like

issues with seeing all

looked at the

there was the outline of his body and just a lot of

Shang started to draw lines, connecting all the

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

Shang drew a huge pathway going through his arm, which

for his entire body and looked

And he snorted.

as he threw the diagram 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

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

diagram with all the

here, move over to

Shang stopped commenting on what he was doing in his mind as he actually

brows furrowed more and more

could actually do it,' Shang thought.

have designed all of this allows 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

as he looked at the

easy. I refuse to believe that there is no problem with that. By now, I know that the world is very good at

know how to simulate his Mana's movement before actually making the changes. Without that, Shang might build himself into a corner with no

took Shang several minutes, but he

was not

there was

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

these humongous pathways require a lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I can have

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

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

But due to my weakened body, the speed of my attacks would remain about

tapped his finger on

tapping and noticed that he was tapping on the middle of

Shang remembered the image

huh?' Shang

edited the diagram and

place. If

changed the location to his neck. There was no more space inside of his head, but there was a bit of space left in his neck. Additionally, if he got hit

pathways to