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

his brows. "Can you explain what you

you earned as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed

you can combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you should also be able

seen us fight multiple times before, but we only use our Affinity like this with the

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows as he

Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never strike with only their weapons. In some form, their Affinity is always

thought back to his fight

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

trial. Even the average Late

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

thought about his weapons and about his

defensive and with a heavy focus on

Great Sword was focused on unleashing few but very devastating

a good number of attacks with a good amount of

on rapid attacks that relied heavily on

mostly used

used

Affinity wasn't

mostly used

of untapped potential there,' Shang

got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

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

for all weapons. For example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it

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

need to use everything with everything. Sure, I can still use ice and fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it

I assign

easiest would be my Long Sword. My Long Sword and

my rapid

actually 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

should go

pair Saber

my Colossal Sword with

Shang only looked forward