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.

that splitting your Affinities and swordsmanship into separate

"Can you explain

Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is definitely a technique designed for weapons, but its power gets elevated by using

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

use our Affinity

his chin with furrowed

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. In

fight with Mervin about 18

Affinity in nearly every attack. It had made his sword

the trial. Even the average Late

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

his weapons

Sword was very defensive and with a

Great Sword was focused on unleashing

good number of attacks with a

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

was mostly used with

really used

Light Affinity wasn't used at

Darkness Affinity was mostly used

definitely is a lot of

Shang got

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

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

Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal or Great Sword. The additional damage it provides is more of a per-hit-thing

increase the power of my weapon, making it the opposite, but I rarely use

use everything with everything. Sure, I can still use ice and fire to move around, but when it comes to

would I assign

Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly go

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 but in a different way. I could also use fire with the

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

should go with

would pair Saber with

Colossal Sword

only looked