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

simply didn't have the power to go against the

there was something they could

the critical frontlines, even

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

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

they had given up on the Skythunder

the leaders didn't respect them, they also

changes, the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom became bloody

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

no way to announce

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

were changing in the world over

deep in the Caves, working on his

Sword

included him, but he was basically only a footnote, and nobody

actually existed, he had been only a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many Early

were even a couple of warriors that reached Mervin's level of

changing, and even if Count Sword actually existed, he

outstanding back then, but would he still be outstanding

shown himself? True Path Stage warriors

about all of this, he

working

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

the underground, and more time

some bad

Ranos had died.

been killed by

only take a deep breath and continue working on his

future he

that more and more of the few people

only thing he could do was

the most important thing

later,

most likely been killed by the

never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still sad to see one

other student, the woman Viera, had been sent to the frontlines as

overboard while hunting beasts and had

also wouldn't stay alive for

Council was systematically getting rid of all the important

later, Teacher

Shang the quota for the Day of Chaos, and

her

one year

had hit

had been his sole heir, and he had had a

warrior and a powerful Peak True

most powerful person in the Commander Stage

that had been

was too powerful, and he

the biggest threat to

he had

knew that Shang needed a

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