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.

Affinities and swordsmanship into separate categories is

his brows. "Can you explain

says that you should take the ranged technique you earned as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons, but its power gets elevated

can combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you should

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

furrowed brows

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

his fight with Mervin

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

he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used

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

weapons

Sword was very defensive and with a heavy focus on a

focused on unleashing few but very

good number of attacks with a good

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

was mostly used

really used in any of his

wasn't used at

Affinity was mostly

definitely is a lot of untapped potential

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks

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

my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since it wouldn't

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

would I assign

Long Sword. My Long Sword and my

bit more difficult. For my Saber, I could imagine fire and ice. With ice, I would increase the power of my rapid attacks, while fire would do the same

to it. My Great Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by its powerful weight and power. Fire is just like my Darkness Affinity, a per-hit thing. Ice increases

should go with

would pair Saber with

Colossal Sword with

that moment, Shang only looked