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.

showed how incredible his

that reached the True Path

of the guards of Warrior's Paradise also

but it wasn't as impressive as Mervin's. Nevertheless, he

20 years ago, there had only

there were four, and three

The world was changing.

of Dean to Mervin. Mervin had already been informed prior, and he had

George had gone through with his

research, George had finally done what he

Jerald cast several

the Peak Commander Stage and forgot most of his knowledge

several days, and his mind had gone

not something easy

he

Memories were missing.

Concepts were missing.

General knowledge was missing.

a heavy hit,

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

years old and since Commander Stage warriors could only live for about

part of George's hair had turned gray,

was in his early

looked about as old as Teacher Mervin had looked before

gotten younger, and he looked like he was in his

was like George

to train again, he surprisingly

when George asked

a strange feeling for

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

was supposed to be George's

However, it made sense.

most of his Battle-Strength, and he needed someone very powerful to teach him

was the perfect

would have declined. After all, he didn't

However, George was different.

in the past, and Shang

So, Shang accepted.

fight against a beast

like overkill for someone that