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 of

didn't have the power to go against the

was something they could

on the critical frontlines, even when great rewards

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

in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they couldn't be forced to

had given up on the Skythunder

didn't respect them, they

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

and the Council was forced to lower the pressure

way to

had done previously had been done in the shadows. If they announced now that they were no longer doing these things,

things were changing in the world over

still deep in the Caves, working

Sword

still included him, but he

actually existed, he had been only 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 Path

of warriors that reached

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

then, but

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

about all of

was working on

day, and Shang could

the

some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

likely been

take a deep breath and continue

future he

that more and more of the

he

the most

later, Soran

also most likely

Vice-Dean. Soran had never truly been Shang's biggest fan,

woman Viera, had been sent to the

hunting beasts and had endangered

she also wouldn't stay

Council was systematically getting rid of all the important people in the old

later, Teacher

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

seen her in 50

one year later,

hit Jerald

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

Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak

had probably been the most powerful person in

exactly that had

too powerful, and he

biggest threat to

Jerald's son died, he had never urged Shang to hurry

knew that Shang needed

left Jerald's life, and it was