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

there was something they could

on the critical frontlines, even when great rewards were

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

power or show themselves in public. When nobody knew

given

didn't respect them,

the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom

increased, and the Council was forced

was no way to announce such

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

changing in the world over the years, but

still deep in the Caves, working

Count Sword

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

warrior. By now, there

of warriors

changing, and even if Count Sword actually existed, he would

might have been outstanding back then,

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

about all

was working

by day, and Shang could see the sheer

in the

later, some bad news

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by the

could only take a deep breath and continue

future he had

the few people he

only thing he could do was

the most important

later,

had also most likely been killed

remembered the Vice-Dean. Soran had never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still sad to

had been sent

while hunting beasts and had endangered

wouldn't stay alive

was systematically getting rid of all the

later, Teacher Niria

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

seen her in

one year

hit Jerald very

been his sole heir, and he had had a bright future

warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage

person in the Commander Stage

had been the

and he was Jerald's

was the biggest

he had never urged Shang to hurry

needed a lot of

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