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.

in space. It completely absorbed all forms of light and let no

believed the Pest Cats to have a Darkness Affinity, but he hadn't heard

Was this darkness?

also explain the

up the entire room, and if the darkness Mana Source weren't here, Shang would have needed to

was probably a Mana Source

and light also existed

the dean said. "There are some beasts that have these affinities, but they are truly rare amongst humans. Most of the world thinks that darkness and light affinities can't exist inside humanity,

only High Mages get to meet them occasionally. Their existence

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

chin. "Why is it like this?"

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

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

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 the light of the fireball and the Mana it gives off, confusing the surrounding Mages about its power and making it explode

attention

do I have?"

A good example would be the Empress Cobra. It lives in a swamp

Affinity is comprised of the Water Affinity and the Darkness Affinity. However, as far as I know, the existence of

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

would be lying if I said that this

walked over to

have an Earth Affinity, but he wanted to feel

touched 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 mouth again, just

SHING!

vanished as the dean pulled it back

Shang went to the next

and just like earth, it left Shang's body

wasn't

water, and just like the previous two, it