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 into separate categories

his brows. "Can you explain what

should take the ranged technique 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 using an Affinity, something George didn't

combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you

multiple times before, but we only use our Affinity like this with

his chin with furrowed brows

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. In some form, their Affinity is always part of their

back to his fight with

every attack. It

different warriors he had fought in the trial. Even the average Late Commander Stage warrior used their Affinity in

techniques? Even more, how can

about his weapons and about his

Colossal Sword was very defensive and with a heavy focus

focused on unleashing few

a good number of attacks with a good amount

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

Fire Affinity was mostly used

used

wasn't used

Darkness Affinity was mostly used with

a lot of

got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

can further distinguish the different weapons by also creating attacks that

not very useful with my Colossal

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

don't need to use everything with 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 my techniques

I

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

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

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

Sword should

would pair Saber

my Colossal

Shang only