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,"

his brows. "Can you explain

Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique

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

we only use our Affinity like

furrowed brows

didn't have access to an Affinity. Warriors like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power of

his fight with

attack.

he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander

how can I integrate them in a way

thought about his weapons and about his

Colossal Sword was very defensive and with a

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

focused on a good number of attacks with a

attacks that relied

Fire Affinity was mostly used

Affinity wasn't really used

Light Affinity wasn't

was mostly used with

a lot of untapped potential there,'

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

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

useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more

power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since it wouldn't be worth the life

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

I assign

would be my Long Sword. My Long Sword and

my rapid attacks, while fire would do the same thing but in a

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

Sword should go with

would pair Saber

my Colossal Sword with

moment, Shang only looked forward with