Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang looked at all the different Mana Sources with shining eyes.

Elemental Mana began to fill the room, but the Magic Circle kept the Mana isolated, making the different kinds interact with each other. There wasn't much Mana in the surroundings, but the different forms of Mana still created some minor phenomena.

The temperature in the room fluctuated wildly. Some bolts of lightning appeared and disappeared in the surroundings.

Lots of tiny things appeared.

Shang also noticed something very interesting very quickly.

The dean hadn't summoned a Mana Source for Ice Mana, but there were still eight different Mana Sources.

Yet, according to what Shang knew, there were only seven affinities.

So, why were there suddenly nine, including Ice?

Shang quickly checked each Mana Source.

Orange ethereal spire that released a ton of heat? Got to be fire.

Brown ethereal spire that summoned rock around it? Shang knew that one already. That was earth.

Green ethereal spire that created tons of wind? Probably wind.

Deep blue ethereal spire that summoned water in the air, which rained down around it? Water.

Silver ethereal spire that summoned bolts of lightning? Lightning.

Grey ethereal spire that seemed to vibrate in the air? Shang wasn't that certain about what it was, but based on what he had already seen and what was missing, Shang was rather certain that this was metal.

That left the last two.

space. It completely absorbed all forms of light and let

a Darkness Affinity, but he hadn't heard of any form of Darkness

Was this darkness?

also explain the last Mana

last ethereal spire lit up the entire room, and if the darkness Mana Source weren't here,

a Mana Source for

darkness and light also existed as

these affinities, but they are truly rare amongst humans. Most of the world thinks that darkness and

High Mages get to meet them occasionally. Their existence

Affinities, studies on the Darkness and Light Affinities are not made public and not conducted in the public. That means that a human unfortunate enough to receive such an affinity won't be able to become a powerful

is it like this?" he

answered. "Every power knows what sort of abilities all the Mages with all the Affinities have. However, they also know that the

deal with the known Affinities, or will you spend 10,000 gold for one that can also deal with light and darkness? Of course,

decide to do a certain thing. However, you don't know what that certain thing is since you don't know the

shouldn't do that, which is why they are doing it. So then, you use your Light Mage to suppress the light of the fireball and the Mana it gives off, confusing the surrounding Mages about its power and making it explode in

listened with rapt attention and

have?" Shang

very rare. A good example would be the Empress Cobra. It lives in a swamp filled with nothing but poison, and it rules over

and the Darkness Affinity. However, as far as

even be something never seen before. It might

lying if I said that this

nodded and walked over to

that he didn't have an Earth Affinity, but he wanted to feel

entered his body. After a couple of seconds of circling around in his body, it left through Shang's mouth again,

SHING!

Earth Mana Source vanished as the dean pulled it back into

went to the next Mana

well, and just like

Affinity wasn't

like