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

furrowed his brows. "Can

Affinity makes it far weaker. It is

ranged attack with an Affinity, you

but we only use our

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows

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

to his fight

Mervin had used his Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It had made his sword move faster and release more

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

more, how can I integrate them in a way

about his weapons and about

Colossal Sword was very defensive and with a heavy

Sword was focused on unleashing few but very devastating and explosive

good number of attacks

focused on rapid attacks that

was mostly used with ranged

wasn't really used in any of

wasn't used at

Darkness Affinity was mostly

lot of untapped

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

different weapons by also creating attacks that follow one of the

example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more of a per-hit-thing than

the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it

move around, but when it comes to attacks, it

would I

Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity

is a bit more difficult. For 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 while using

Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by its powerful weight and power. Fire is just like my Darkness Affinity, a per-hit thing. Ice increases

Great Sword should

pair Saber with

Colossal Sword with

that moment, Shang only looked forward with