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.

your Affinities and swordsmanship into

brows. "Can you explain

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

you can combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you should also be able to combine other attacks with your

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

with furrowed brows as he

of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never strike with

back to his fight with Mervin

attack.

the average Late Commander

Affinities into my techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in a way that

his weapons and about

was very defensive and with

Sword was focused on unleashing

number of attacks

rapid attacks that relied heavily on

mostly used with ranged

Ice Affinity wasn't really used in any

Affinity wasn't used

mostly

lot of

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

by also creating attacks that follow one of

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

my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a

to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine

I assign

Long Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly

the power of my rapid attacks, while

assign a partner 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 the existing power of

Sword should

would pair Saber

Colossal Sword

Shang only