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.

and swordsmanship into separate categories is stupid,"

"Can

far weaker. It is definitely a

you can combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you should also

has seen us fight multiple times before, but we only use our Affinity like this

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows as he fell

the Path of someone that didn't have access to an Affinity. Warriors like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never strike with only their weapons.

back to his fight with Mervin about

every attack. It had made his sword move faster

the different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in

Affinities into my techniques? Even more, how can I integrate

thought about his weapons and about his

defensive and with

Great Sword was focused on unleashing few but very devastating and

Saber was focused on a good number of attacks with a good amount of

rapid attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life

mostly used with ranged

used in

wasn't

mostly used with Shang's

is a lot of

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks that

very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it

my Ice Affinity can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I

to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I design my techniques

I assign

easiest would be my Long Sword. My Long Sword

my Saber, I could 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 the ranged technique

Sword seems similar, but it's actually easier to assign a partner to it. My Great Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by its

should go with

pair Saber with

Colossal

moment, Shang only