Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang continued training inside the Caves.

For multiple years, Shang had seemingly vanished from the face of the world.

People knew about the mysterious Count Sword, but nearly all of them had never seen him.

Some of the people even doubted that Count Sword actually existed. After all, someone must have seen him somewhere, right?

However, deep in the Caves, Shang was training hard every single day.

He only focused on his own power, nothing else.

And his progress was astounding.

When Shang had just reached the Peak Commander Stage, he would have had a shot at killing an average Initial High Mage.

But now, Shang could even fight an Early High Mage, probably.

Shang's physical power had not increased in any way. His increase in power was all due to his diligent training in his Path.

As Shang continued training, George's Spear kept following him. It didn't help or come close, but it stayed in the same general vicinity of Shang.

Shang guessed that he and Sword were the closest people to George's Spear, which was why it was following them.

A couple of months passed.

One day, George's Spear approached Shang of its own volition.

Shang was a bit surprised since the spear had never initiated a conversation before.

Sword left Shang's hands and floated over to the spear, touching it.

"It is asking why you are not making use of your Affinities," Sword told Shang.

"Because I want to train in my swordsmanship," Shang answered, looking at the spear. "Right now, I am forging my Path, and I only use my Affinities in a genuine fight. If I used all my abilities the entire time, my opponents wouldn't be able to live for long."

George's Spear didn't move.

"It says that this was not what it meant," Sword said.

Shang raised an eyebrow.

swordsmanship into separate

furrowed his brows. "Can you

should take the ranged technique you earned as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely

you should also be able to combine other attacks

fight multiple times before, but we only use our

chin with furrowed

Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never strike with only their weapons. In some form, their Affinity is always part of their attacks

thought back to his fight with Mervin about 18

every attack. It had made his sword move faster and release

had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used

my techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in a way that

thought about his weapons and

Colossal Sword was very defensive and with a heavy focus

focused on unleashing few but very

good number of attacks with a

was focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily on using

Fire Affinity was mostly used

really used in any

wasn't used

Affinity was mostly used with Shang's

is a lot of untapped

got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

weapons by also creating attacks

For example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more of a

the same time, my Ice Affinity can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite,

with everything. Sure, I can still use ice and fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I design

would I assign

Sword. My Long Sword and

imagine fire and ice. With ice, I would increase the power of my rapid attacks, while fire would do the same thing but in a different way. I could also use fire with

to it. My Great Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by its powerful weight and

Sword should go

would pair Saber with

Colossal Sword

moment, Shang only looked