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.

It completely absorbed all forms of light and

remembered that he had once believed the Pest Cats to have a Darkness Affinity, but he hadn't heard of any form of Darkness Affinity from other

Was this darkness?

would also explain the last Mana

last ethereal spire lit up the entire room, and if the darkness Mana Source weren't here, Shang would have needed to protect

was probably a

know darkness and light also existed as Affinities,"

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

of a couple of humans with these affinities, but only High Mages get to

Affinities, studies on the Darkness and Light Affinities are not made public and not conducted in the public. That means that a human unfortunate

chin. "Why is it like

Affinities have.

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

enemy might have spells that could turn the entire situation around as long as you decide to do a certain thing. However, you don't know what that certain thing is since you don't

then, you use your Light Mage to suppress

listened with rapt attention and absorbed all the

kind of Affinity do I have?" Shang

There are also Mixed Affinities, but they are very rare. A good example would

to some advanced studies, the Poison Affinity is comprised of the Water Affinity and the Darkness Affinity. However, as far as I know, the existence of a human with a Poison Affinity is only

even be something never seen before. It might even be something so confusing that we

would be lying if

over to the closest one,

Earth Affinity, but he wanted to feel how

the brown spire, and it quickly entered his body. After a couple of seconds of circling around in his body, it left through Shang's

SHING!

Mana Source vanished as the dean

the next Mana Source,

this Mana Source as well, and just like earth, it

wasn't related to

one was water, and just like the previous two, it simply left Shang's