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 Council

have the power

there was something they could

the critical frontlines, even when great rewards were

didn't go beyond. They simply did the bare minimum

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

given up on the

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

between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom

the Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was

was no way to announce

done previously 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 they had been responsible for

things were changing in the world over the years, but for

in the Caves,

now, Count Sword

lectures on politics still included him, but he was basically only

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

a couple of warriors

Count Sword actually existed, he would only be a relic of

outstanding back then, but would he still be outstanding

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

about all of this, he didn't

was working on something

and Shang could see the

the underground, and more time

years later, some bad news

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by

deep breath and continue working on

was the future

the few people

only thing he could

was the most

year later, Soran

also most likely been killed

Vice-Dean. Soran had never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still sad to see one of George's

other student, the woman Viera, had been sent to

had gone overboard while hunting beasts and

she also wouldn't stay alive for

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

later,

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

her

year later, Mattheo

hit Jerald

heir, and he

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

been the most powerful person in the Commander Stage aside from

had been the

powerful, and he

was the biggest threat to

even though Jerald's son died, he had never

needed

left Jerald's life, and