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

brows. "Can you explain what

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

attack with an Affinity, you should

we only use our Affinity like this with the

with furrowed brows

like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never strike

fight with Mervin about 18

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

Even the average

more, how can I integrate them in a way that doesn't constantly

weapons and

Sword was very defensive and with a heavy focus on

on unleashing few

Saber was focused on a good number of attacks with a good

was focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's

Affinity was mostly used with

used in any of

wasn't used at

was mostly

definitely is a lot of untapped

got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

different weapons by also

Affinities are suitable for all weapons. For example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or

my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since it

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 certain weapon and

I

Long

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

it's actually easier to assign a partner to it. My Great Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by its powerful weight and power.

Sword should go

would pair

Colossal

moment, Shang only looked