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.

started to realize that the Council was behind all of

they simply didn't have the power to go against

was something they could

appeared on the critical frontlines, even when great

warriors only did the necessary things that were expected of them but didn't go beyond. They simply did the bare

warriors didn't even announce their new power or show themselves in public. When nobody knew

they had given

didn't respect them, they also

the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom became

was forced to lower

there was no way to announce such

the shadows. If they announced now that they were no longer doing these things, it would be like telling

world over the years, but for Shang, nothing

in the Caves, working on his

Count Sword had

but he was basically

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

of warriors that reached Mervin's level

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

outstanding back then, but would he still be

Path Stage yet? Wouldn't he have shown himself? True Path Stage warriors needed resources and experience. Wouldn't he want to fight Mages? How could he fight Mages if he didn't

knew about

was working on

by day, and Shang could see the sheer power

the underground, and more time

some bad news

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by

a deep breath and

future he

more and more of the few people

thing he could do

most important thing

year later, Soran

also most likely been killed

biggest fan, but it was still sad to see one of

Viera, had been sent to

hunting beasts and had endangered the

wouldn't

looked like the Council was systematically getting rid of all

year later,

of Chaos, and she had also been the one that gave him the Darkness

hadn't seen her in 50

one year

hit Jerald very

his sole heir, and he had had a

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

been the most powerful person in

had been the

was too powerful, and

the biggest

died, he had

Shang needed

other left Jerald's life, and it was