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

simply didn't have the power

was something they could

frontlines, even when great rewards were

them but didn't go beyond. They simply did the bare minimum and tried to stay

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

had given up on the

respect them,

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

and the Council was forced to lower

no way to announce such

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

things were changing in the world over the

in the Caves, working on

Sword

included him, but he was basically only

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

warriors that reached

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

might have been outstanding back then,

actually were so powerful, why wasn't he at the True Path Stage yet? Wouldn't he have shown himself? True Path Stage

about all of

was working

power was increasing day by day, and Shang could

the underground,

later, some bad

Ranos had died.

had most likely been

could only take a deep breath and continue

the future he had

knew that more and more of the few people

thing he could do

the most important thing to

later,

likely

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

student, the woman Viera, had been sent to the

overboard while hunting beasts and

that she also wouldn't stay

like the Council was systematically getting rid of all the

year later, Teacher

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

hadn't seen her in

year later, Mattheo

hit

he had had a bright future ahead of

warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage

probably been the most powerful person in the

had been

was too powerful, and

biggest

though Jerald's son died, he had

that Shang needed

other left Jerald's life, and it was very difficult for