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.

says that splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship into

brows. "Can you explain what you

an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons, but its power

Affinity, you

only use our Affinity like this with the ranged

with furrowed brows as he

like Mervin take 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 their

back to his fight with Mervin

every attack. It had made his sword

remembered the different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander

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

his weapons

was very defensive and with a heavy

on unleashing few but very devastating and

on a good number of attacks with a good

focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life energy

Affinity was mostly

Affinity wasn't really used in any of his

wasn't

was mostly used with Shang's

a lot of untapped potential there,' Shang

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

weapons by also creating attacks that follow one of

Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it

the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use

around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I design my techniques around a certain weapon and

I assign

Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly go

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 technique while

Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by its powerful weight

should go with

pair Saber

Colossal

Shang only looked