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.

to realize that the Council was behind all of

the

there was something they

the critical frontlines, even

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

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

given

respect them,

the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the

Council was forced to lower the pressure they put

was no way

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

over the years,

still deep in the

Count Sword had been completely

general lectures on politics still included him, but he

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

a couple of warriors that reached Mervin's

Count Sword actually

been outstanding back then, but would he still be

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

if Shang knew about

was working on something

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

remained deep in the underground,

years later, some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

been killed by

breath and continue working

the future

the few people he knew would

he could do

most important thing

year later,

also most likely been killed by the

biggest fan, but it was still sad to see one

woman Viera, had

while hunting beasts and had endangered

wouldn't stay alive for much

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

later,

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

her

year later, Mattheo

hit Jerald very

had been his sole heir, and he had had a

Stage warrior and

been the most powerful person in the Commander Stage

had been the

was too powerful, and he was

biggest

he had never

needed a lot

life, and it was very