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.

that the Council

simply didn't have the power to go against the

was something they

the critical frontlines,

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

new power or show themselves in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they couldn't be forced to fight on the

they had given up on the Skythunder

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

between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity

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

no way to announce such

longer doing these things, it would be like telling everyone that they

the world over the years, but for Shang,

still deep in the

Sword

on politics still included him, but he was basically only

he had been only a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By

of warriors

even if Count Sword actually existed, he would

outstanding back then, but would he still

guy actually were 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 experience. Wouldn't he want to fight Mages? How could he fight Mages if he didn't

Shang knew about

was working

day by day, and Shang could see

remained deep in the

some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by the

deep breath and continue working on

the future he

knew that more and more of the few people he knew

only thing he could

the most important thing to

later,

likely been

Soran had never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still

Viera, had been sent to the frontlines

hunting

guessed that she also wouldn't

like the Council was systematically getting rid of all

later, Teacher Niria

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

her in 50

one year later,

hit

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

powerful Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak

had probably been the most powerful person in the Commander Stage aside from

exactly that had

too powerful, and he was Jerald's

the biggest

though Jerald's son died, he

Shang needed a lot

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