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 categories is stupid,"

his brows. "Can you

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

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

use our Affinity like this with the ranged technique,

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows as

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 their techniques in this way. They never strike with only their weapons.

to his fight with Mervin about 18 years

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

different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage

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

about his weapons and about his

defensive and

unleashing few but very devastating and

a good number

on rapid attacks that relied heavily on

Affinity was mostly used with ranged

Affinity wasn't really used in any of his

Affinity wasn't used

mostly used with Shang's Long

of untapped potential there,' Shang

got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

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

Colossal or Great Sword. The

making it the opposite, but I rarely use it in such a way since it wouldn't

and fire to move around, but when it comes to attacks, it should be fine if I design my techniques around a certain weapon

would I

my Long Sword. My Long Sword

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 in a different way. I could also use fire with the ranged technique while using my

Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by its powerful weight and power. Fire is just like

Sword should go with

would pair Saber

Colossal

only looked forward with