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.

splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship into separate categories

"Can you explain what

that you should take the ranged technique you earned as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons, but its power gets elevated by

ranged attack with an Affinity, you should

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

his chin with furrowed brows as

the Path of someone 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

thought back to his fight with Mervin about 18

attack. It

also remembered the different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander

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

his weapons

defensive and with a

on unleashing few

number of attacks with a good

attacks that relied heavily on

Affinity was mostly used with

Ice Affinity wasn't really used

Light Affinity wasn't

was mostly

of untapped potential there,' Shang

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks that follow

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

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

still use ice and fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I

I assign

Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity

my rapid attacks, while fire would do the same thing but in a

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

Sword should

would pair Saber with

my Colossal

moment, Shang only looked forward with