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

didn't have the

there was something

appeared on the critical frontlines, even

warriors only did the necessary things that were expected of them but didn't go

even announce their new power or show themselves in public. When

they had given up

leaders didn't respect them, they also

the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom

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

was no way to announce

were no longer doing these things, it would be like telling everyone that they had been

world over the years, but for Shang,

still deep in the

Count Sword had

he

a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there

a couple of warriors that

and even if Count Sword actually existed, he would only

been outstanding back then, but would he

Path Stage yet? Wouldn't he have shown himself? True

about all of this, he

was working

was increasing day by day, and Shang could see the sheer power his

deep in the underground,

some bad

Ranos had died.

most likely been killed by the

a deep breath and continue working on his

the future he

that more and more of the few

he could do

most important thing to

year later,

also most likely been

Shang's biggest fan, but it was

the woman Viera, had been

gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered the

guessed that she also wouldn't stay alive for

rid of all the important people in

later, Teacher

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

hadn't seen her

one year

hit Jerald

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

Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage

person in the Commander Stage aside from

exactly that had been

was too powerful, and

was the biggest threat

though Jerald's son died, he had never urged

Shang needed a lot

life, and it was very