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

"Can you

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 by using an Affinity, something George didn't have access

Affinity, you should also be able

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

with furrowed brows as he fell

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

his fight with Mervin

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

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

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

weapons and about his

defensive and with a heavy focus

focused on unleashing few but very devastating

a good number of

attacks that relied

Fire Affinity was mostly used with

Ice Affinity wasn't really used

Light Affinity wasn't

was mostly used

definitely is a lot of untapped

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

I can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks

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

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

can still use ice and fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks,

I assign

Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly

one is a 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 thing but in a different way.

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

should go

would pair Saber

my Colossal Sword with

Shang only looked forward with