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 stupid,"

his brows. "Can you explain what 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

can combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you should also be

but we only use our Affinity like this with

his chin with furrowed brows as

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 the power of their techniques in this

his fight with Mervin about

Affinity in nearly every attack. It

warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their

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

thought about his weapons and about

Sword was very defensive and with a heavy focus on

Sword was focused on unleashing few but very

good number of attacks with a good amount of

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

was mostly used with ranged

used in any

Affinity wasn't used

Darkness Affinity was mostly used with Shang's

is a lot of untapped potential there,' Shang

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating

all Affinities are suitable for all weapons. For example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The

same time, my Ice Affinity can increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since it

fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks,

would I

easiest would be my Long Sword. My Long Sword

could imagine fire and ice. With ice, I would increase the power of my rapid attacks, while fire would do

all backed by its powerful weight and power. Fire is just like my Darkness Affinity, a per-hit thing. Ice

should go

would pair Saber with

my Colossal Sword with

only looked forward with