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

brows. "Can

example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique

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

use our Affinity like this with the ranged technique, not with everything

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows as he fell

of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never strike with only their weapons. In

fight

Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It had

Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in combination with their

how can I integrate them in a way that doesn't

thought about his weapons

Colossal Sword was very defensive and with a

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 energy

was mostly

Affinity wasn't really used in

Affinity wasn't used

Darkness Affinity was mostly used with

is a lot of

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks that follow one of the

all Affinities are suitable for all weapons. For example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it

my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since

need to use everything 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 my techniques around a certain weapon

would I

Long Sword. My Long Sword and my

fire and ice. With ice, I would increase the power of my rapid attacks, while fire would do

they are all backed by its powerful weight and power. Fire is just like my Darkness Affinity, a per-hit thing.

should go

would pair

Colossal Sword

Shang only looked forward