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.

your Affinities and swordsmanship

"Can

the ranged technique you earned as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for

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

but we only use our Affinity like this with the ranged

with furrowed brows as

says that you are pursuing George's Path, the Path of someone that didn't have access to an Affinity. Warriors like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase

his fight with

his Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It

trial. Even the average

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

thought about his weapons

and with a

was focused on unleashing few but very devastating and explosive

a good number

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

Affinity was mostly used with

Ice Affinity wasn't really used in

Light Affinity wasn't used at

Affinity was mostly

lot of untapped potential there,' Shang

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

different weapons by also creating attacks that follow one

my Colossal or

increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely

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

I assign

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

one 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

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

Great Sword should go with

pair Saber with

my Colossal Sword

only looked forward