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.

swordsmanship into separate categories is

furrowed his brows. "Can you explain what

ranged technique you earned as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely

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

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

chin with furrowed

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 of

thought back to his fight with Mervin about

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

also remembered the different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in combination

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

thought about his weapons and

defensive and with a heavy focus on a

on unleashing few but

Saber was focused on a good number of attacks

attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life energy

was mostly used

Ice Affinity wasn't really used in any of

wasn't

Affinity was mostly used

definitely is a lot of untapped potential there,' Shang

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

the different weapons by also creating attacks that follow one

useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it

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

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 a

I assign

my Long Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness

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

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

should go

would pair

Colossal

only looked forward