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

didn't have the

there was something they

warriors appeared on the critical frontlines, even when great

of them but didn't go beyond. They simply did the bare

announce their new power or show themselves in public. When

had given

respect them, they

the Skythunder Kingdom and the

and the Council was forced

there was no way to announce such

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

the world over the years, but for Shang, nothing

in the

Count Sword had been completely

still included him, but he was basically only

Stage warrior. By now, there were many Early True Path Stage warriors and even a couple

even a couple of warriors that

Sword actually existed, he

been outstanding back then, but

at the True 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

about all of this, he

was working on

and Shang could see

in the underground, and

later, some bad news

Ranos had died.

likely been

take a deep breath and continue working on his

the future he had

the few people he knew would leave

only thing he could do was

most

year later, Soran

most likely been killed by

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

student, the woman Viera, had

had gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered the

wouldn't stay

rid of all the important people

year later, Teacher

that gave Shang the quota for the Day of Chaos, and

seen her in 50

year later, Mattheo

hit

heir, and he had had a bright

powerful Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage

powerful person in the Commander

had been the

was too powerful, and he was Jerald's

biggest threat to

Jerald's son died, he had never

needed

left Jerald's life, and