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.

swordsmanship into separate

"Can you

example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for

attack with an Affinity, you should

use our Affinity like this

furrowed brows

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 way. They never strike with

fight with Mervin

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

warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the

can I integrate them in a way that doesn't constantly sap my

thought about his weapons and

and with

focused on unleashing few but

number of attacks with a good amount

that relied heavily on using

was mostly used with

Affinity wasn't really used in any of

wasn't used at

Darkness Affinity was mostly used with Shang's

a lot of untapped

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks that follow one of

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

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

I can still use ice and fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I design

would I

Long Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly

next one is a 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 same thing

Great Sword seems similar, but 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 per-hit thing. Ice increases the existing power of my

should

would pair

my Colossal Sword

moment, Shang only looked