Sword God in a World of Magic

Five years had passed, and Shang was 37 now.

For the past five years, Shang had mostly stayed within the Caves, training against the beasts. He had mostly focused on the Colossal Sword Star and the Saber Star.

He had already received the True Path Light Ore from Jerald, but Shang wouldn't use it yet, even if he had access to all of the ore he needed.

The reason was that Sword needed to change shape several times, which would consume ore. Upgrading it to the True Path Stage would make this process far more expensive.

After five years of constant training, Shang's Star Map had made quite some progress.

His shards leading to the other Stars were now nearly as wide and impressive as the shards leading to the Long Sword Star.

This was astonishing progress. After all, it meant that Shang managed to copy the progress he had made after fighting Teacher Mervin for five years, nearly three times over in just five years.

The concept of Cross Comprehension turned out to be correct, and Shang noticed that some principles overlapped, allowing him to make tremendous progress on all of them.

Sadly, there was still a long way to go. He was probably not even 10% of the way to his goal.

The Path he was trying to create was simply too wide and powerful, and it demanded an insane amount of training and comprehension.

Right now, Shang was at the Late Commander Stage, with his body being around 90% as powerful as the body of a Late Commander Stage beast.

Over the past five years, Shang had only absorbed a couple of Abominations for several reasons.

First of all, Shang truly realized how long creating his Path would take. Increasing the power of his body was nothing in comparison. He didn't need to constantly absorb beasts and Abominations.

Second, Shang didn't want to summon too many Abominations. His ability to summon them was still his deepest secret, and he couldn't allow anyone to suspect him. Because of that, Shang only absorbed Abominations when they were about to appear on their own. In essence, he didn't even summon them. He simply took advantage of their regular appearance.

Five years ago, Shang would have counted as the most powerful warrior in the world with his current power. After all, even George would have been helpless in front of him.

However, times changed.

Mervin had reached the True Path Stage, and with his powerful and wide Path, his power also easily eclipsed George's.

Even without the Bloodline Infusion, Mervin could fight the weakest True Path Stage beasts. Maybe he wouldn't necessarily win, but he could fight and flee from them.

And that wasn't even everything. Mervin could do the same thing to the weakest High Mages. His Battle-Strength was evenly divided against all three possible opponents he could fight.

As for fighting against warriors? Shang had a more powerful body than Mervin, but Mervin was also exceptionally good at fighting other warriors.

According to Shang's estimates, if he were to fight Mervin right now, he would estimate that he would lose, but it would still be a long and arduous fight.

Teacher Mervin managed to gain enough power to fight the weakest Mages of his level without the Bloodline Infusion or barbarian strengthening technique.

incredible his

wasn't the only one that reached the True Path Stage

guards of Warrior's Paradise also

George's, but it wasn't as impressive as Mervin's. Nevertheless, he also counted as a truly powerful warrior

ago, there had only been one True Path Stage

three of them

The world was changing.

position of Dean to Mervin. Mervin had

ago, George had gone through with his

George had finally done what he had wanted to do for a

Jerald cast several Spells, and

Peak Commander Stage and forgot most of his knowledge about combat, which included

for several days, and his mind had gone through one shock

was not

he had forgotten many

Memories were missing.

Concepts were missing.

General knowledge was missing.

didn't take a heavy hit,

things, which took a long time, but a couple of weeks later,

Commander Stage

part of George's hair had turned gray, and several wrinkles appeared on his

looked like he was in his early sixties, in

Teacher Mervin had looked before

Teacher Mervin had gotten younger, and he looked

was like George and

was ready to train again, he

asked

was a strange

of the Warrior's Academy as an incredibly imposing giant, and Shang had

now, he was supposed to be George's

However, it made sense.

he needed someone

the perfect

Shang would have declined. After all, he didn't have time

However, George was different.

taught Shang in the past, and Shang

So, Shang accepted.

George fight against

seemed like overkill for someone that was essentially a