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.

now, the warriors started to realize that the Council was behind all

didn't have the

there was something they could

appeared on the critical frontlines, even when great rewards were

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

warriors didn't even announce their new power or show themselves in public. When

they had given

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

frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity

the Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was forced to lower the

was no way to announce

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

changing in the world over the

in the

Count Sword had been

politics still included him, but he was

Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many Early True Path Stage warriors and

a couple of warriors that

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

have been outstanding back then,

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

if Shang knew about all

was working

Shang could see the sheer power

the underground, and

years later, some bad

Ranos had died.

had most likely been killed by the

only take a deep breath and continue working on his

the future

more and more of the few people he

only thing he

the most

year later, Soran

likely

Shang's biggest fan, but

had been sent to the frontlines as

had gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered the

that she also wouldn't stay alive for much

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

later, Teacher Niria

Day of Chaos, and

her

one year later, Mattheo

had hit Jerald

sole heir, and he had had a

Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True

most powerful person in the

exactly that had

and he

biggest threat

son died, he had never

knew that Shang needed a lot of

the other left Jerald's life, and it