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

furrowed his brows. "Can you explain

weaker. It is definitely a technique

combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you should also

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

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows as he

Affinity. Warriors like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never strike with only their weapons. In some

to his fight with Mervin about 18 years

in nearly every attack. It had made his sword move faster and

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

I integrate my Affinities into my techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in a way that doesn't

weapons and

Sword was very defensive and with a heavy

unleashing few but very devastating

a good number of attacks with a

Long Sword was focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily on

was mostly used with ranged

used in any of

Light Affinity wasn't

mostly used with

is a lot of untapped

got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

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

Colossal

it the opposite, but I rarely

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

I

My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity

I could imagine fire and ice. With ice, I would increase the power of my rapid attacks, while fire would

partner to it. My Great Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed

Sword should go

would pair

my Colossal Sword with

that moment, Shang only