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

brows. "Can

an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely

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

but we only use our Affinity like this with the ranged

his chin with furrowed brows

of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never strike with only their weapons. In

back to his fight with Mervin about 18 years

Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It had made his

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

techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in a way that doesn't constantly sap my life

weapons and about

defensive and with a heavy focus on

on unleashing few but very

on a good number of attacks with a good

attacks that

mostly

really used

Light Affinity wasn't used

Affinity was mostly

a lot of

got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

the different weapons by also creating

my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more of a per-hit-thing

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

to move around, but when it comes to

I

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

is a 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 with the ranged technique while

but it's actually easier to assign a partner to it. My Great Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed

should go

would pair

my Colossal Sword with

only