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.

Affinities and swordsmanship into

furrowed his brows. "Can you explain

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

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

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

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows as he fell

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 part of

his fight with Mervin about 18 years

in nearly every attack. It had made his sword move

warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity

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

thought about his weapons

Colossal Sword was very defensive and

was focused on unleashing

Saber was focused on a good number of

was focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily

was mostly used

Affinity wasn't really used in any of his

Affinity wasn't used

Affinity was mostly used with

of untapped

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

the different weapons by also

with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides

Ice Affinity 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

around, but when it comes to attacks, it

I assign

Sword. My Long Sword and my

my rapid attacks, while fire would do the same thing but

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 Darkness Affinity, a per-hit thing. Ice increases the existing

Great Sword should

pair Saber with

my Colossal Sword

that moment, Shang only looked forward