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 into separate categories is stupid," Sword

furrowed his brows. "Can you

as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker.

Affinity, you should also be able to combine

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

chin with furrowed brows as he fell into

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

to his fight with Mervin

nearly every attack. It had made his

the different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage

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

thought about his weapons and about his

and with a heavy

Sword was focused on unleashing few

focused on a good number of attacks with a

Sword was focused on rapid attacks that relied

was mostly used

Ice Affinity wasn't really used in any

Affinity wasn't used

mostly used

a lot of

got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

I can further distinguish the different weapons by also

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

can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in

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 around

would I assign

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

bit more difficult. For my Saber, I could imagine fire and ice. With ice, I would increase the power of my rapid attacks, while fire

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

Sword should go

would pair Saber

my Colossal Sword with

only looked forward with