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 into separate

furrowed his brows. "Can

an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons, but its power

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

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

furrowed brows as he fell into

like Mervin take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never strike with only their weapons.

back to his fight

Affinity in nearly every attack. It

remembered the different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the

can I integrate my Affinities into my techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in a way that

about his weapons

was very defensive and with a heavy focus on a

unleashing few

number

Long Sword was focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily

Fire Affinity was mostly used with

wasn't really used in any of his

Light Affinity wasn't used at

Darkness Affinity was mostly used with Shang's Long

of untapped

got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

different weapons by also creating attacks that

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

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

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

would I

Sword. My Long Sword and

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

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

Great Sword should go

pair

Colossal Sword with

only looked forward with