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.

splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship into separate categories is stupid," Sword

"Can you explain what

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

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

fight multiple times before, but we only use

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows as

increase the

fight with Mervin about

in nearly every attack. It had made

the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in combination

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

thought about his weapons and about

and

unleashing few but very

good number of attacks with a good amount of

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

Affinity was mostly used

wasn't really used in any of

Light Affinity wasn't

was mostly used with

of untapped potential

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks that follow one of the

with my Colossal

it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since

with everything. Sure, I can still use ice and fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I design my techniques around a

I

Sword. My Long Sword and my

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. I could also use fire with the ranged technique while using

easier to 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,

should go with

would pair Saber with

Colossal Sword with

that moment, Shang only looked forward