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.

and swordsmanship into separate categories is stupid,"

his brows. "Can you

far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons, but its power gets elevated by using an Affinity, something George

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

times before, but we only use our Affinity like this with

chin with furrowed

Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way.

his fight with Mervin about

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

he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander

can I integrate my Affinities into my techniques? Even more, how can I

weapons and

very defensive and

on unleashing few but very devastating and explosive

Saber was focused on a good number of

attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life energy

Affinity was mostly used

wasn't really used in

Light Affinity wasn't used at

mostly

a lot of

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks

Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides

making it the opposite, but I rarely use

move around, but when

would I

my Long Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity

and ice. With ice, I would increase the power of my rapid attacks, while fire would

to it. My Great Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by its powerful weight and power. Fire

should go with

would pair Saber

my Colossal Sword with

Shang only looked