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

simply didn't have the power

was something they

frontlines, even

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

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

given up

the leaders didn't respect them, they also wouldn't

between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic

Council was forced to lower the

was no way to announce such a

they announced now that they were no longer doing these things, it would be like telling everyone that they

things were changing in the world over the years, but for Shang,

the Caves, working on his

Count Sword had been

but he was

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 Stage

warriors that reached

actually existed, he would only be a relic

might have been outstanding back then, but

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

even if Shang knew about all of

was working on something

was increasing day by day, and Shang could see the

deep in the underground,

some

Ranos had died.

most likely been

only take a deep breath and continue working on his

was the future

knew that more and more of the few people

only thing he could

the most important thing

year later, Soran

also most likely been killed by the

had never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but

woman Viera, had been sent

hunting beasts and

that she also wouldn't

getting rid of all the important people in the

year later, Teacher

the quota for the Day of Chaos,

hadn't seen her in

one year later, Mattheo

hit Jerald

sole heir, and he had had a bright future

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

probably been the most powerful person in

exactly that had been the

too powerful, and he was Jerald's

was the biggest threat

died, he had never

that Shang needed

life, and it