Sword God in a World of Magic

A couple of minutes later, Shang left the Caves and went to where Jerald was currently.

Jerald simply handed Shang several large books, and Shang left for the Caves again.

As soon as he came back, Shang read through all the books.

These books were Spell Compendiums, and they basically listed every standard True Mage Spell known to the Skythunder Kingdom.

Something like that would go for an extraordinary price, but Jerald just gave them to Shang.

Sure, these Spell Compendiums were extremely valuable, but their value was still perceived in gold.

Shang could hunt True Path Stage beasts. If he wanted to repay Jerald, he would only need to hand over a single corpse, and he would have repaid far more than he owed.

Naturally, Shang wasn't interested in learning Magic. He only looked at the Spells and how they worked to gain inspiration for his techniques.

Shang was no longer on a level where he needed to learn other people's techniques. No, he needed to create his own techniques.

Additionally, with Shang's powerful Path, he was more than qualified to create such techniques.

Over the next two years, Shang's Path didn't make much progress. He was fully focused on coming up with new techniques and trying to manipulate his Mana and Affinities well enough to actually use them.

He created a couple of duds, but he also found a couple of useful ones.

After coming up with a good framework for his future fighting style, Shang went on to make his new fighting style an actual reality.

The beginning was hard since this was a new field for Shang.

Three years later, Shang had only made marginal progress.

At least, that was how it felt.

When Shang actually looked at the Star Map, he noticed something.

The Shards that had symbolized Shang's different Affinities were starting to connect to Shang's Paths.

This didn't increase the actual progress of his Path but made it wider and more powerful.

By now, all four Paths were even wider than Mervin's Path, showing their ridiculous power.

Shang realized that he was onto something big, and his determination to continue pursuing this path only increased.

Five years later, Shang managed to fully integrate his Affinities with his Paths.

In the last ten or so years, Shang's Path hadn't advanced upward but had gotten far wider.

Right now, Shang's Path was still stuck at a bit more than 50%, but it couldn't be compared to its earlier version.

From this point onward, Shang focused on progressing his Path again with its new width.

Over the past couple of years, even more True Path Stage warriors and High Mages appeared.

Sadly, the number of deaths amongst the True Path Stage warriors rose.

They started to be sent on reckless missions or just mysteriously vanished.

Most of all, the warriors that died were all warriors that were not too happy with the Mages.

realize that the Council was behind

didn't have the power to go against

was something

on the critical frontlines, even when great rewards were

them but didn't go beyond.

powerful warriors didn't even announce their new power or show themselves in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they couldn't be forced

had given up on the

respect them, they also

these slow changes, the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic

Council was forced

no way to announce such

announced now that they were no longer doing these things, it would be like telling everyone that they

were changing in the world over the

in the

now, Count Sword had been completely

him, but he was basically only a footnote,

a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many Early True Path Stage warriors and even a couple of Mid True

were even a couple of warriors

if Count Sword actually existed, he would only be a relic

have been outstanding back then, but

wasn't he at the True Path Stage yet? Wouldn't he have shown himself? True Path Stage warriors

even if Shang knew about all of this, he didn't

was working on

Shang could see the sheer power his Path

remained deep in the underground, and

years later, some bad

Ranos had died.

most likely been

could only take a deep breath and continue

future he

more and more of the few people he

he could do

the most important thing to

later,

likely been

Soran had never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still sad to

woman Viera, had been sent to the frontlines as

had gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered the

that she also wouldn't

was systematically getting rid of all the important people

year later, Teacher Niria

Shang the quota for the Day of Chaos, and she had also been the

seen her in

one year later, Mattheo

had hit Jerald

his sole heir, and he had had a bright future ahead of

Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage at the

probably been the most powerful person

that had

too powerful, and he was Jerald's

was the biggest threat

died, he had never

that Shang needed a lot of

friend after the other left Jerald's life, and it was