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,"

"Can

should take the ranged technique you earned as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for

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

only use our Affinity like this with

chin with furrowed brows as

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

fight with Mervin about

had used his Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It had made his sword move faster and

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

can I integrate them in a way that doesn't constantly sap

his weapons and about his

and with a heavy focus

on unleashing few but very devastating and explosive

Saber was focused on a good number

that relied heavily on using Shang's life

Affinity was mostly used

really used in any of

Light Affinity wasn't used at

was mostly used with Shang's

definitely is a lot of untapped

got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

by also creating attacks that follow one of

my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional

Affinity can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I

but when it comes

I assign

Long Sword and my

fire and ice. With ice, I would 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

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 increases the existing power of my

Sword should go

would pair Saber

my Colossal Sword

only