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.

says that splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship into separate categories is

furrowed his brows. "Can

makes it far weaker.

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

before, but we only use our

furrowed brows as

have access to an Affinity. Warriors like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in

thought back to his fight with Mervin about 18 years

attack. It had

the average Late Commander Stage warrior used

can I integrate them in a way

thought about his weapons and about his

Sword was very defensive and with a

on unleashing few but

focused on a good number of attacks with a good amount

Long Sword was focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life energy

was mostly used with ranged

wasn't really used in any of his

Light Affinity wasn't used at

was mostly used with

definitely is a lot of untapped potential there,' Shang

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

by also creating attacks that

useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more of a per-hit-thing than a multiplier on existing

my Ice Affinity can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in

move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I design my techniques

would I

easiest would be my Long Sword. My Long Sword and

of my rapid attacks, while fire would do

to it. My Great Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by its powerful weight

Great Sword should go with

would pair Saber

Colossal

moment, Shang only looked