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.

Affinities and swordsmanship

brows. "Can you explain what you

it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons,

Affinity, you should also

but we only use our Affinity like this with the ranged technique, not with

furrowed brows as

that you are pursuing George's 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 in this way. They never strike with only their weapons. In some form, their Affinity is always part of their attacks and

fight

in nearly every attack. It had

the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in

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

thought about his weapons

Sword was very defensive and

focused on unleashing few but very devastating and

Saber was focused on a good number of

on rapid attacks that

Fire Affinity was mostly used

Ice Affinity wasn't really used in any

wasn't used

mostly used

a lot of untapped potential there,' Shang

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

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

Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword.

it the opposite, but I

to move around, but when it

would I assign

My Long Sword and my Darkness

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

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

Great Sword should

pair

my Colossal Sword

Shang only looked