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

didn't have the power to go

was something they

critical frontlines, even when great

but didn't

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

had given up

didn't respect them,

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

was forced to lower the pressure

there was no way to announce such a

done in the shadows. If they announced now that they were no longer

things were changing in the world over

still deep in the Caves, working on

now, Count Sword

but he was basically only a

had been only a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many Early True Path Stage warriors and

a couple of warriors that

changing, and even if Count Sword actually

been outstanding back then, but

Wouldn't he have shown himself? True Path Stage warriors needed resources and

knew about

working

and Shang could see the

deep in the underground, and more

some

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by

deep breath and

future he had

of the few

thing he

was the most

year later, Soran

likely

truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still sad to

other student, the woman Viera, had been sent to the frontlines as

while hunting beasts and had

also wouldn't stay

rid of all

year later,

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

hadn't seen her

one year

had hit Jerald

been his sole heir, and he had had a bright future ahead

Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak

person in the Commander

had

too powerful, and he was Jerald's

was the biggest threat to

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

Shang needed

after the other left Jerald's life,