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

his brows. "Can you

Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons, but its power gets elevated by using

Affinity, you should also be able to combine other attacks

us fight multiple times before, but we only use our

furrowed brows as he fell

that didn't have access to an 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 form, their Affinity is always part

back to his fight with

used his Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It had

trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in

can I integrate them in a way that doesn't constantly sap

weapons and about

and with a heavy

on unleashing few but very devastating and

focused on a good number of attacks with a good amount of

focused on rapid attacks that relied

was mostly used with ranged

Affinity wasn't really used in any of

Affinity wasn't used

Affinity was mostly used with

is a lot of untapped potential there,'

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

different weapons by

For example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more of a per-hit-thing

same time, my Ice Affinity can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since it

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

I assign

easiest would be my Long Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly

bit more difficult. For my Saber, I 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

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

should go with

pair Saber

Colossal

Shang only looked forward with