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.

that splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship into separate categories

his brows. "Can you explain

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

combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you

we only use our Affinity like this with the ranged technique,

furrowed brows as he fell into

Path, 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

back to his fight with Mervin about 18

Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It had made his sword move faster and

the trial. Even the average

into my techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in

weapons and about

defensive and with a

Great Sword was focused on unleashing few but very devastating and explosive

number of attacks with a

Long Sword was focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily

Fire Affinity was mostly used

Affinity wasn't really used

wasn't used at

Darkness Affinity was mostly used with Shang's

lot of untapped

got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

by also creating attacks that follow one of

example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional

opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since it wouldn't be worth the life

everything with everything. Sure, I can still use ice and fire to move around, but when

would I assign

My Long

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

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 powerful weight and power. Fire is just like my

Great Sword should

would pair Saber with

Colossal Sword with

Shang only looked forward with