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 and let

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

Was this darkness?

explain the last

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

probably a Mana Source for

didn't know darkness and light also existed as Affinities,"

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

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

Darkness and Light Affinities are not made public and not conducted in the public. That means

scratched his chin. "Why is it like this?" he

all the Affinities have. However, they also know that the enemy might have some

your attacking force with a Magic Circle that costs only ten gold that can deal with the known Affinities, or will you spend 10,000 gold for one that can also

have spells that could turn the entire situation around as long as you decide to do a certain thing. However,

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

attention and absorbed all the

I have?" Shang

but they are very rare. A good

to some advanced studies, the Poison Affinity is comprised of the Water Affinity and the Darkness Affinity. However, as

the God said that your Affinity is very special, it could theoretically be everything. It might even be something never seen before. It might even be something so confusing that we don't even

the dean said. "I would be lying if I said that this

nodded and walked over

Earth Affinity, but he wanted to

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 like

SHING!

as the dean pulled it back into his Space

the

Source as well, and just like earth, it left Shang's body after

Affinity wasn't

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