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.

the warriors started to realize that the Council was

simply didn't have the power to

there was something

the critical frontlines,

things that were expected of them but didn't go beyond. They

or show themselves in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they couldn't be forced

had given up

them, they also wouldn't show

between the Skythunder

was forced to lower the pressure they

way

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

changing in the world over the

in the

now, Count Sword

him, but he was basically

Sword actually 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 True

a couple of warriors that reached Mervin's

world was changing, and even if Count Sword actually existed,

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

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

if Shang knew about

was working on

day by day, and Shang could see the

remained deep in the underground, and

later, some

Ranos had died.

likely been

a deep breath

was the future he had

of the few people he knew would

only thing he

the most important

later, Soran

likely been killed by

Shang's biggest fan, but it

had been sent to

while hunting beasts and had

she also wouldn't stay alive for much

rid of all the

year later, Teacher Niria

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

hadn't seen her in

year

hit

had been his sole heir, and he had

warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage at the same

had probably been the most powerful person in the Commander Stage aside

had been

and

the biggest threat to the

though Jerald's son died, he had never

that Shang needed a lot

other left Jerald's life, and it was very difficult