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

there was something they could

the critical frontlines,

did the necessary things that were expected of them but didn't go beyond. They simply did the bare minimum and tried to stay

in public. When nobody knew that

had given up on

leaders didn't respect them, they also wouldn't show

of these slow changes, the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and

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

there was no way to announce such a

previously had been done in the shadows. If they announced now that they were no longer doing these things, it would be

were changing in the world over the years, but

in the Caves, working on his

Sword

politics still included him, but he was basically

Stage warrior. By now, there were many Early

even a couple of warriors that reached

if Count Sword actually existed, he would only be a relic

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

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 Mages?

even if Shang knew about all of this,

working on

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

deep in the underground, and more time

some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

been killed by

deep breath and continue working on

future he had

that more and more of the

only thing he

most important thing

year later,

also most likely been killed by

biggest fan,

the woman Viera, had been sent to

gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered

that she also wouldn't stay alive

the Council was systematically getting rid of all the important people in the old

later, Teacher

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

hadn't seen her in

one year later,

hit Jerald very

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

Commander Stage warrior and a powerful

person in the Commander Stage

exactly that had been the

was too powerful, and he

was the biggest threat to

died, he had never urged Shang to

knew that Shang needed a lot of

left Jerald's life, and it was