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 is

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 a technique designed for weapons, but its power gets elevated by using an Affinity, something George didn't

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

use our Affinity like this

chin with furrowed brows as he fell

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. In some form, their Affinity is always

back to his fight with Mervin about

nearly every attack. It had made his

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

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

weapons

very defensive and with a heavy focus on

unleashing few but very devastating

on a good number of attacks with a good amount of

attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life

Fire Affinity was mostly used with

used in any of

Light Affinity wasn't used at

Darkness Affinity was mostly used with

lot of untapped potential there,' Shang

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating

with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage

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

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

would I

Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly

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

many attacks, but they are all

Great Sword should go with

pair Saber

my Colossal

Shang only