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

only one that reached the True Path Stage

guards of Warrior's Paradise also

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

a bit more than 20 years ago, there had only been one True Path Stage warrior, and he

and three of

The world was changing.

had handed over the position of Dean to Mervin. Mervin had already been informed prior, and he had accepted the

George had gone through with his

finally done what he had wanted to do for

Jerald cast several Spells, and

Stage and forgot most of his knowledge about

several days, and his

Path was not something

he had forgotten many

Memories were missing.

Concepts were missing.

General knowledge was missing.

heavy

to relearn many things, which took a long time, but

since Commander Stage warriors could only

had turned gray, and several

was in

looked about as old as Teacher Mervin had looked before reaching the True

younger, and he looked like he was in his

a way, it was like George and

was ready to train again, he surprisingly joined

George asked for

was a strange

the Warrior's Academy as an incredibly imposing giant, and Shang had always learned from

now, he was supposed to be George's

However, it made sense.

had forgotten most of his Battle-Strength, and he needed someone very

was the

have declined. After all, he didn't have time for

However, George was different.

had taught Shang in the past, and Shang wanted to

So, Shang accepted.

let George fight against a beast one level below

someone that was essentially