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.

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

brows. "Can you explain

far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons,

an Affinity, you should

use our Affinity like this

his chin with furrowed

to an Affinity. Warriors like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the

thought back to his fight with Mervin about

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

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

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

weapons and about his

defensive and

Great Sword was focused on unleashing few but very devastating

focused on a good number of

rapid attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life

Fire Affinity was mostly used with ranged

Ice Affinity wasn't really used in

Affinity wasn't used at

was mostly

definitely is a lot of

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

weapons by also creating attacks that follow one of the

my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or

power of my weapon, making it the opposite,

with everything. Sure, I can still use ice and fire to move around, but when it

I assign

Sword. My Long Sword and my

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

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

should

pair Saber with

Colossal

Shang only looked forward with