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.

that splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship into separate categories is

furrowed his brows. "Can you explain what you

an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker.

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

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

chin with furrowed brows

take advantage of their Affinities and increase the

thought back to his fight with

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

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

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

weapons and

very defensive and with a heavy

unleashing few but very devastating and explosive

number of attacks

attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life energy and

was mostly used with ranged

Affinity wasn't really used

Light Affinity wasn't used at

was mostly used

definitely is a lot of

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

I can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks

very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides

time, my Ice Affinity can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite,

use everything 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 design

I assign

My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly go

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 using

many attacks, but they are all backed by its powerful weight and power. Fire is just like my Darkness Affinity, a

Sword should go with

pair

Colossal

only looked