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.

warriors started to realize that the Council was behind

didn't have the power to go against the

there was something they

frontlines, even when

expected of them but didn't go beyond. They simply did the bare minimum

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

they had given up on the

didn't respect them,

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

the Council was forced to lower the pressure

way to announce

announced now that they were no longer

changing in the world over the years, but for Shang, nothing

deep in the Caves, working

Sword had been completely

him, but he

Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many Early

couple of warriors that reached

entire world was changing, and even if Count Sword actually existed,

been outstanding back then, but

shown himself? True Path Stage warriors needed resources

if Shang knew about all

working

increasing day by day, and Shang could see the

the underground, and more

some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

been

deep breath and continue working

was the future he

and more of the few people

thing he could do was

was the most important

year later,

also most likely been killed by the

truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was

Viera, had been

had gone overboard while hunting

she also wouldn't stay alive for

of all the important people in the old

year later, Teacher

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

hadn't seen her

year

had hit

heir, and he had had a bright future ahead

had been a powerful Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage at the

most powerful person in the Commander Stage aside from

that had been

and he was Jerald's

biggest threat

even though Jerald's son died, he had

knew that Shang needed a

life, and