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.

now, the warriors started to realize that the Council was

they simply didn't have the power to go against

there was something they

appeared on the critical frontlines, even when great rewards were

didn't go beyond. They simply

show themselves in public.

they had given up on

leaders didn't respect them, they also

slow changes, the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity

Kingdom increased, and the Council was forced to lower the pressure they put

there was no way to announce such

longer doing these things, it would be like telling everyone that they had been responsible for most of

changing in the world over the years, but

deep in the Caves, working

Count Sword

lectures on politics still included him, but he was basically only a footnote, and

existed, he had been 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 Mid

a couple of warriors that reached

even if Count Sword actually

outstanding back then, but would he still

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

even if Shang knew about all of this, he didn't

was working on

day, and Shang could see

the underground, and

some bad

Ranos had died.

had most likely been killed

only take a deep breath and continue working on

future he

more and more of the few people he

thing he

was the most important thing

later,

likely been killed by

fan, but it was still

Viera, had been sent to

while hunting beasts and had endangered

that she also wouldn't stay

Council was systematically getting rid of all the

later, Teacher Niria

the Day of Chaos, and she had also been the one that gave him

hadn't seen her

one year later, Mattheo

had hit

he had had a bright

a powerful Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage at the same

person in the Commander Stage aside

had

too powerful, and he

biggest threat

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

that Shang needed

left Jerald's life, and it was very difficult