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.

original and new diagrams on top of each other and marked the spots where all his Mana pathways

thousands upon thousands of individual small points on the diagram. Luckily, the magical paper

all the individual

looked at

was the outline of his body and just a

to draw

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

his entire body and looked

And he snorted.

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 fifth of my speed with a fifth of my power without being able

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

diagram with

would need to start here, move

was doing in his mind as

more and more

Shang thought. 'I

I 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 new ones.

chin as

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

than just his Spell. After all, Shang also had to know how

but

he was not

was

in my body, I have to create central pathways that are extremely

a lot of Mana to fill, and the Mana I can

I need, 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 as powerful as a beast

and with more flexibility and diversity. But due to my

tapped his

at where he was actually tapping and noticed that he was tapping

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Core, huh?' Shang

diagram and added a

that this was a bad place. If any attack hit his chest, he

There was no more space inside of his head, but there was

the different Mana pathways to the