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 Council was

simply didn't have the power

there was something

appeared on the critical frontlines, even when great rewards

things that were expected of them but didn't go beyond.

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

they had given up

didn't respect them,

frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom

Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was forced

there was no way

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

the world over

the Caves, working on

now, Count Sword had

he

only a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many

a couple of warriors that reached Mervin's level

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

might have been outstanding back then,

have shown himself? True

about

was working on

and Shang could see the sheer power his

deep in the

years later, some

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by the

take a deep breath and continue

was the future

more and more of the few people he

he could do was

was the most important thing to

later,

likely been killed by

fan, but it was still sad to see one

had been sent to

while hunting beasts and had

that she also wouldn't stay alive for much

of all the important people in the old

later, Teacher

gave Shang the quota for the Day of Chaos, and

her in

one year

hit Jerald very

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

powerful Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage at the same

powerful person in the

that had been the

too powerful, and he was

biggest

died, he had never urged Shang

that Shang needed

left Jerald's life, and it was very