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

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 by using an Affinity, something George didn't

with an Affinity, you should also be able to combine

we only use our Affinity like this

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows

says that you are pursuing 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

back to his fight with Mervin about

had used his Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It had made

had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior

how can I integrate them in a way

about his weapons and about his

was very defensive and with a heavy focus on a

was focused on unleashing few but very devastating and

good number of attacks with a

rapid attacks that relied heavily on

was mostly used

really used

wasn't

Affinity was mostly used

lot of untapped potential there,'

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks that follow

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

it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a

need to use everything with everything. Sure, I can still use ice and fire to move around, but when it

I

easiest would be my Long Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity

could imagine fire and ice. With ice, I would increase the 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 my

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

Great Sword should

would pair Saber with

my Colossal

only looked forward