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 was behind all

have the power to go against the

there was something

on the critical frontlines, even when great

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

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

had given up on the

didn't respect them, they also wouldn't

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

increased, and the Council was forced to lower

no way to

they had done previously had been done in the shadows. If they announced now that they were no longer doing these things, it would be like

changing in the world over the

deep in the Caves,

Count Sword

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

By now, there were many

even a couple of warriors

was changing, and even if Count Sword actually existed, he would only be a relic

outstanding back then, but would he still be

himself? True Path Stage warriors needed resources and

even if Shang knew about all of this, he didn't

working on

by day, and Shang

deep in the underground,

some bad

Ranos had died.

had most likely been killed by

breath and continue working on his

was the future he

of the few people

he could do was

was the most

year later,

also most likely

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

other student, the woman Viera, had been sent to

had gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered

that she also wouldn't

rid of all the important

year later,

Day of

hadn't seen her in 50

one year

hit Jerald very

he had had a bright future ahead

Stage warrior and

probably been the most powerful person in the Commander Stage aside

that had been the

powerful, and he was Jerald's

was the biggest threat

though Jerald's son died, he had never urged Shang to

knew that Shang needed a lot

Jerald's life, and it was very