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 behind all of

simply didn't have the power to go against the

something they could

the critical frontlines, even

them but didn't go beyond.

themselves in public.

had given

them,

Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom became

the Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was forced to lower the pressure

was no way to

no longer doing these things, it would be like telling everyone

things were changing in the world over the years,

was still deep in the Caves, working on his

Sword had been completely

politics still included him, but he was

actually existed, he had been only a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many

a couple of warriors that reached Mervin's

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

might have been outstanding back then, but would he still be

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

even if Shang knew about all of this,

working on something

increasing day by day, and Shang

in the underground, and more time

later, some

Ranos had died.

been killed

a deep breath and continue

future he

that more and more of the few people he knew would leave

only thing he could

most important thing

year later, Soran

also most likely been killed

truly been Shang's biggest fan, but

other student, the woman Viera, had been

had gone overboard while hunting beasts

that she also wouldn't stay alive for much

of all the important people in

year later, Teacher Niria

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

hadn't seen her in 50

year

hit Jerald

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

a powerful Peak Commander Stage warrior and

most powerful person

had been

and

was the biggest threat

he

knew that Shang needed a lot

after the other left Jerald's life, and it was