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 is stupid," Sword

brows. "Can you

ranged technique you earned as an example. Using it without an Affinity makes it far weaker. It is

combine the ranged attack with an Affinity, you should

only use

with furrowed brows

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

to his fight

used his Metal Affinity in nearly every attack. It

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

Affinities into my techniques? Even more, how can I integrate them in a way that doesn't constantly sap

his weapons and about his

and

unleashing few but very devastating and explosive

focused on a good number of attacks with a good amount of

attacks that relied heavily

Fire Affinity was mostly used with ranged

Affinity wasn't really used in any of his

Light Affinity wasn't

mostly

is a lot of untapped

Shang got an

'Four Affinities.'

'Four weapons.'

by also

Darkness Affinity is not very useful with my Colossal

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

Sword. My Long Sword and my Darkness Affinity perfectly go

For my Saber, I could imagine fire and ice. With ice, I would increase the power of my rapid attacks,

many attacks, but they are all backed

Sword should

pair

Colossal

Shang only looked forward with