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.

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

his brows. "Can you

an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is

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

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

with furrowed brows as

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

thought back to his fight with Mervin about 18

nearly every attack. It had made his sword move faster and release

different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the

can

his weapons and about

and with a heavy focus on

unleashing few but very devastating and explosive

good number of

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

Affinity was mostly used

used in

Affinity wasn't used

mostly used with Shang's Long

is a lot of untapped potential

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

further distinguish the different weapons by

Colossal or Great Sword. The additional

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

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 around a certain weapon

would I

would be my Long Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly

the power of my rapid attacks, while fire would do the same thing but in a different way. I could also use fire with

all backed by its powerful weight and power. Fire is just like

should go with

would pair Saber

my Colossal Sword with

that moment, Shang only looked forward with