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.

that splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship into separate categories is

his brows. "Can you explain what

weaker. It is definitely a technique designed

an Affinity, you

has seen us fight multiple times before, but we only use our Affinity like

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows as he fell

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

thought back to his fight with Mervin

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

the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in combination with

techniques? Even more, how can I integrate

his weapons

and with a heavy focus on a

Sword was focused on unleashing few but very devastating and

a good number of attacks

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

was mostly used

really used

Affinity wasn't used at

mostly used with

definitely is a lot of untapped

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks

weapons. For example, 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 than a multiplier on existing

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

I can still use ice and fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I design my

I assign

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

of my rapid attacks, while fire would do the same thing but in a different way. I could

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

Great Sword should

pair Saber with

Colossal Sword with

only looked forward