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.

says that splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship

"Can you explain what you

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 have

you should also be

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

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows as

take advantage of their Affinities and increase the power of their techniques in this way. They never

back to his fight with Mervin about

Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It had made his

the trial. Even the average

more, how can I integrate them in a way that doesn't constantly sap my life

weapons and about his

very defensive and with a heavy focus on

unleashing

focused on a good number of attacks with

rapid attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's

Affinity was mostly

Ice Affinity wasn't really used in any

Affinity wasn't

Affinity was mostly used with Shang's

definitely is a lot of untapped potential

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

by also creating attacks that follow one of

Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more of a per-hit-thing than a multiplier

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

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

I assign

My Long Sword

power of my rapid attacks, while fire would do the same thing

to it. My Great Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed

Great Sword should go

would pair Saber with

Colossal

moment, Shang only