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.

Affinities and swordsmanship into separate categories

furrowed his brows. "Can

weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons, but its power gets

combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you should

us fight multiple times before, but we only use our Affinity like this with the ranged technique,

rubbed his chin with furrowed brows

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

thought back to his fight

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

Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in combination with their

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

his weapons

defensive and with a

Sword was focused on unleashing few but very devastating and explosive

number of

Long Sword was focused on rapid attacks that relied heavily on using Shang's life energy

mostly used

wasn't really used in

Affinity wasn't used

Darkness Affinity was mostly used with Shang's

is a lot of untapped potential there,'

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks that follow

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

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

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

I

my Long Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly go

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

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

Great Sword should go with

would pair Saber with

Colossal Sword with

that moment, Shang only looked forward