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.

and swordsmanship into separate categories is

"Can you explain what you

an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons, but its

an Affinity, you

has seen us fight multiple times before, but we only use our Affinity like this

chin with furrowed brows

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

to his fight with Mervin about 18

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

the average Late Commander

techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in

thought about his weapons and

and

focused on unleashing few but

a good number of attacks with a good

that relied heavily

Affinity was mostly used

Ice Affinity wasn't really used

Light Affinity wasn't

Darkness Affinity was mostly

definitely is a lot of untapped potential

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

I can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating

my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides

it the opposite, but I rarely

around, but when it comes

I

My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly go

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

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 and power. Fire is just like my Darkness Affinity, a

should

pair

Colossal Sword with

that moment, Shang only