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 stupid,"

"Can you explain what

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 have access

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

has seen us fight multiple times before, but we only use our Affinity like this with the

chin with furrowed brows as he fell into

Warriors like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power

to his fight with Mervin

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

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

Even more, how can I integrate them in a way that doesn't constantly sap my life

about his weapons and about

was very defensive and with a heavy

on unleashing few but

good number of attacks with a

Long Sword was focused on rapid attacks that relied

mostly used with

wasn't really used in any

Light Affinity wasn't

mostly used with

a lot of untapped potential there,'

got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks that follow

very useful with my Colossal or Great

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

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

I assign

Long Sword. My Long Sword and my

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

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

Great Sword should go

pair Saber with

my Colossal Sword

that moment, Shang only looked forward with