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 stupid," Sword

"Can you

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

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

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

chin with furrowed

didn't have access to an Affinity. Warriors like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in

back to his fight with

nearly every attack. It had made

Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used

Affinities into my techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in a way that doesn't constantly

his weapons and about

was very defensive and with a heavy focus

unleashing

was focused on a good number of attacks

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

mostly used with

Ice Affinity wasn't really used

Affinity wasn't used

was mostly used with

definitely is a lot of untapped

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

the different weapons by also creating attacks that follow one of the

my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more of a per-hit-thing

Affinity can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since it wouldn't be worth the life

ice and fire to move around, but when

I assign

be my Long Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity

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

all backed by its powerful weight and power. Fire is just like my Darkness Affinity, a per-hit thing. Ice increases the

should go with

would pair

my Colossal Sword with

that moment, Shang only