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.

now, the warriors started to realize that the Council was

they simply didn't have the power

was something they

frontlines, even when great rewards

of them but didn't go beyond. They simply

their new power or show themselves in public. When nobody

had given up on

didn't respect them, they also

between the Skythunder

the Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was forced to lower

no way

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

world over the years, but for

in the Caves, working

Count Sword had

on politics still included him, but he was basically only a

existed, he had been only a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were

warriors that

actually existed, he would

back then, but

guy actually were so powerful, why wasn't he at the True Path Stage yet? Wouldn't he have shown himself? True

about all of this, he

working on something

Shang could see the sheer

the underground, and more time

some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

most likely been killed by the

only take a deep breath and continue working on his

the future he

more and more of the

he

most important thing

later,

most likely been killed

still remembered the Vice-Dean. Soran had never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still sad to see one of George's students

woman Viera, had been sent to the

gone overboard while hunting beasts and had

she also wouldn't stay alive

like the Council was systematically getting rid of all the important

later, Teacher Niria

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

seen her in

year

hit

sole heir, and he had had a bright

and

been the most powerful person in the

exactly that had been

too powerful, and he was

was the biggest

Jerald's son died, he had

needed

life, and