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 of

didn't have the

there was something

frontlines, even when great rewards

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

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

had given up

leaders didn't respect them, they

the Skythunder Kingdom and the

increased, and the Council was forced to lower the pressure

there was no way to

shadows. If they announced now that they were no longer doing these things,

changing in the world over the years, but for Shang,

was still deep in the Caves, working on

Sword had been

he was basically only

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

were even a couple of warriors

changing, and even if Count Sword actually existed,

have been outstanding back then, but

himself? True Path Stage warriors needed resources and experience. Wouldn't he want

if Shang knew about all

working on

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

remained deep in the underground, and

some

Ranos had died.

been killed by the

only take a deep breath and continue working on his

future he had

more and more of the few people he knew

thing he could do

the most important

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

Viera, had

had gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered

wouldn't stay alive for

getting rid of all

later, Teacher

gave Shang the quota for the Day of Chaos,

seen her

year later,

had hit

had been his sole heir, and he had

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

been the most powerful person in the Commander Stage

exactly that had been

was too powerful, and he was

the biggest threat

he

Shang needed a lot

left Jerald's life,