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.

that the Council

didn't have the power

there was something they

frontlines, even

expected of them but didn't go beyond. They simply

in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they couldn't be forced to fight on the

given up

didn't respect them, they also wouldn't

the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom

Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was forced

there was no way to

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 Shang,

still deep in the Caves,

Sword had

he was basically only a footnote, and

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

even a couple of warriors that reached Mervin's

changing, and even if Count Sword actually existed, he would

might have been outstanding back then, but would

he have shown himself? True Path Stage warriors needed resources and experience.

even if Shang knew about all

working on something

day, and Shang could

remained deep in the underground, and more

some bad

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by

breath

was the future he

of the few people he knew

thing he

the most

year later, Soran

most likely been killed

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

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

gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered the

that she also wouldn't stay alive

of all the important people in the old Warrior's

year later, Teacher Niria

been the one that gave Shang the quota for the Day of

seen her

year later,

hit

he had had a bright future

a powerful Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful

powerful person in the Commander Stage

exactly that had been

powerful, and he was

was the biggest

Jerald's son died, he

that Shang needed a lot

life, and it was very difficult