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,"

brows. "Can you explain what 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 elevated by using an Affinity, something

attack with an Affinity, you should also be able to combine other attacks with

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

with furrowed

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

to his fight with Mervin about

had used his Metal Affinity in nearly every attack.

he had fought in the trial. Even the average

more, how can I integrate them in a way that

his weapons and about

Colossal Sword was very defensive and

on unleashing few but very devastating and

a good number of attacks with a good amount of

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

mostly

Affinity wasn't really used in any of his

Light Affinity wasn't used at

Darkness Affinity was mostly

lot of untapped potential

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks

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

weapon, making it the opposite, but

but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I design

I

Long Sword

of my rapid attacks, while fire would do the

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

should go

would pair Saber

Colossal Sword with

Shang only looked forward with