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.

says that splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship into separate categories is stupid," Sword

brows. "Can 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

an Affinity, you should also be able to combine other

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

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

his fight with Mervin about 18 years

attack. It had made his

also remembered the different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the

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

thought about his weapons and

very defensive and with

was focused on unleashing few but very

number of attacks with a good amount

focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life energy

Affinity was mostly used with ranged

Affinity wasn't really used

wasn't used

mostly used with Shang's Long

is a lot of untapped

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also

Affinities are suitable for all weapons. For example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The

it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since it

to use 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

I assign

easiest would be my Long Sword. My Long Sword

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

seems similar, but it's actually easier to assign 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 my Darkness Affinity, a per-hit thing. Ice

should go

would pair

Colossal Sword

only