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.

that the Council was behind all

simply didn't have the

was something they could

warriors appeared on the critical frontlines,

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

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

short, they had given up

didn't respect them, they also wouldn't

Skythunder Kingdom and

the Council was forced

there was no way to

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

changing in the world over the years,

in the

now, Count Sword

he

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

even a couple of warriors that reached

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

then, but would he

why wasn't he at the True Path Stage yet? Wouldn't he have shown himself? True Path Stage warriors needed resources and experience. Wouldn't he

about all of this, he didn't

was working

and Shang could see the sheer power his

the underground, and more

years later, some bad

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by

a deep breath

the future he

more of the few people

thing he could do was

most important

year later, Soran

also most likely been killed

had never truly been Shang's biggest fan,

Viera, had been sent to

while hunting

that she also wouldn't stay alive for much

getting rid of all the important people

later, Teacher Niria

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

seen her in 50

year

hit Jerald very

sole heir, and he had had

Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True

probably been the most powerful person in

that had

powerful, and he was

was the biggest threat to

he had

knew that Shang needed a lot

left Jerald's life, and it was very difficult for