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.

a black tear in space. It completely absorbed all forms of light

Darkness Affinity,

Was this darkness?

explain the last

darkness Mana Source weren't here, Shang would have needed

a Mana Source for

and light also existed as Affinities," Shang

that have these affinities, but they are truly rare amongst humans. Most of the world thinks that darkness and light affinities can't exist

of a couple of humans with these affinities, but only High Mages get to meet them occasionally. Their existence is mostly being kept a secret

made public and not conducted in the public. That means that a human unfortunate enough to receive such an affinity

scratched his chin. "Why is it like

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

can deal with the known Affinities, or will you spend 10,000 gold for one that can

situation around as long as you decide to do a certain thing. However, you don't know what

huge fireball. The enemy wouldn't know that they 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

attention

Affinity do I have?" Shang asked

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

Affinity and the Darkness Affinity. However, as far

even be something never seen before. It might even be something so confusing that we don't

dean said. "I would be lying if I said that this didn't

and walked over to the

Affinity, but he

spire, and it quickly entered his body. After a couple of seconds of circling around

SHING!

Mana Source vanished as the dean pulled it back into

went to the next Mana

this Mana Source as well, and just like earth, it left Shang's

Affinity wasn't

water, and just like the previous two, it simply left