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.

realize that the Council was behind all

the power to

there was something

critical frontlines, even when great rewards were

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

in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they couldn't be forced to

they had given up on

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

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

increased, and the Council was forced to lower

there was no way to announce

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

things were changing in the world over the years, but for Shang, nothing

was still deep in the Caves,

now, Count Sword had

but he was basically

talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many Early True Path Stage warriors and even a couple of Mid True

couple of warriors that

if Count Sword actually existed,

might have 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

about

working on something

Shang could see the

in the underground, and more time

some bad news

Ranos had died.

most likely been killed by

could only take a deep breath and continue working on

future

and more of the few people

only thing he could do

the most important thing

year later,

most likely been killed

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

Viera, had been sent to the

hunting beasts and

she also wouldn't stay alive for

getting rid of all the important

year later,

quota for the Day of Chaos,

her in

year

hit Jerald

sole heir, and he had had

and a powerful Peak

been the most powerful person in the Commander Stage

had been

and he was Jerald's

the biggest threat

he

that Shang needed a

left Jerald's life, and it was very difficult