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

brows. "Can you

it far weaker. It is definitely

you should also be able to combine

multiple times before, but we only use our Affinity

furrowed brows as

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

his fight

attack. It had made his sword move faster and release more

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

Affinities into my techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in a way that doesn't

weapons and

and with a heavy focus

was focused on unleashing few but very devastating

good number of attacks

attacks that relied heavily on using

Affinity was mostly

really used in

Light Affinity wasn't used

Darkness Affinity was mostly used with Shang's

definitely is a lot of untapped potential there,'

got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

different weapons by also creating attacks that follow one of

my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more of a per-hit-thing

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

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 my techniques around

would I assign

My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly go

of my rapid attacks, while fire would do the same thing but in a

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

Great Sword should go

pair Saber with

Colossal

moment, Shang only looked forward with