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.

to realize that the Council

simply didn't have the power to

there was something

on the critical frontlines, even when

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

announce their new power or show themselves in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they couldn't be

short, they had given up

the leaders didn't respect them, they

Skythunder Kingdom and the

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

was no way

now that they were no longer

changing in the world over the years,

the Caves, working

Count Sword

him, but he was

Count Sword actually existed, he had been only a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By

couple of warriors that

Sword actually existed, he would only be

outstanding back then, but would he still be

True Path Stage yet? Wouldn't he have shown himself? True Path Stage warriors

if Shang knew about all of

was working on

increasing day by day, and Shang could see the sheer power his Path

remained deep in the

later, some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

most likely been killed by the

take a deep breath and

future

knew that more and more of the few

only thing he

was the most important thing

year later,

most likely been killed

Shang's biggest fan, but it was still sad to see one of

the woman Viera, had been sent

had gone overboard while hunting beasts and

also wouldn't stay

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

year later, Teacher Niria

that gave Shang the quota for the Day of Chaos, and she had also been the one that gave him the Darkness

her

year

had hit Jerald very

his sole heir, and he had had a

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

had probably been the most powerful person in

that had

powerful, and

biggest threat to the

son died, he had never urged Shang to

that Shang needed a lot of

friend after the other left Jerald's life, and