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

brows. "Can you explain

ranged technique you earned as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique

attack with an Affinity, you should also

multiple times before, but we only use our Affinity like this with the

furrowed brows as he fell into

says 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

his fight with Mervin about 18 years

Mervin had used his Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It

the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in combination with

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

about his weapons

defensive and with

was focused on unleashing few

Saber was focused on a good number of attacks with a good

on rapid attacks that

Fire Affinity was mostly used with ranged

really used

Light Affinity wasn't used at

Darkness Affinity was mostly

lot of untapped potential there,' Shang

got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating

my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more

same time, my Ice Affinity can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a

and fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I

I assign

My Long Sword

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 my

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

Great Sword should go

pair Saber

Colossal Sword with

moment, Shang only