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 categories

"Can

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

the ranged attack with an Affinity, you should also be able to combine other attacks with your

we only use our Affinity like this with the ranged technique, not

chin with furrowed brows as he fell into

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

his fight with Mervin about 18

attack. It had made

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

more, how can I integrate them in a way

thought about his weapons

very defensive and with a heavy

Great Sword was focused on unleashing few

on a good number of attacks

Long Sword was focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily on using

mostly

wasn't really used in any

wasn't used at

was mostly used with Shang's

is a lot of untapped potential there,' Shang

got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

by

example, my Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword.

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

everything. Sure, 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

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

Sword doesn't release many attacks, but they are all backed by

should

pair Saber

my Colossal Sword

Shang only