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.

the warriors started to realize that the Council was behind all

they simply didn't have the

there was something

frontlines, even when great rewards

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

many powerful warriors didn't even announce their new power or show themselves in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they

they had given up on the Skythunder

the leaders didn't respect them, they

between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom became bloody

was forced to

there was no way to announce such a

they were no longer doing these things, it would be like telling everyone that they had been

things were changing in the world over the years,

in the Caves, working on his

Count Sword had been completely

still included him, but he

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

couple of warriors that

Sword actually existed, he would only be a

then, but would he

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

even if Shang knew about all of this, he

was working on

by day, and Shang could see the

in the underground, and more time

years later, some

Ranos had died.

most likely been killed by the

could only take a deep breath and continue working

was the future he

more of the few people he knew

he

the most important thing to

year later, Soran

likely been killed

Vice-Dean. Soran had never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still

the woman Viera, had

gone overboard while hunting beasts and had

that she also wouldn't stay alive for

like the Council was systematically getting rid of all

later,

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

seen her

year later,

had hit Jerald

he had had a bright future ahead of

and a powerful Peak

the most powerful person

exactly that had been the

powerful, and he was

biggest threat to

he had never urged

Shang needed a

friend after the other left Jerald's life, and it was very difficult for