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

have the power to go against

something

on the critical frontlines, even when great

them but didn't go beyond. They simply did the bare

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

they had given up on

respect them, they also wouldn't show

frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the

Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was forced

no way to announce such

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

the world over the years, but for

still deep in the Caves,

Count Sword had been completely

on politics still included him, but he was basically only

powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many

even a couple of warriors that

if Count Sword actually

outstanding back then, but would he still be outstanding

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

about all

working on

Shang could see

in the underground, and

years later, some bad

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by the

take a deep breath and continue working on his

was the future he had

knew that more and more of the

thing he

the most important thing

year later, Soran

also most likely been killed by

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

student, the woman Viera, had

hunting beasts

guessed that she also wouldn't stay alive for much

getting rid of all

later, Teacher

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

her

one year

hit

heir, and he had

Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True

most powerful person

that had been

too powerful, and

was the biggest threat

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

Shang needed a lot of

the other left Jerald's life,