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.

started to realize that the Council was behind

the

something they could

the critical frontlines, even

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

didn't even announce their new power or show themselves in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they couldn't be forced to fight on the

they had given

respect them, they also

frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the

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

no way

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

world over the years, but

still deep in the Caves, working on his

Count Sword had been completely

on politics still included him, but he

warrior. By now, there were many Early True Path

were even a couple of warriors

if Count Sword actually existed,

then, but would he still be

why wasn't he 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 Mages? How could he

even if Shang knew about all

working on

Shang

the underground, and

some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

been killed by

deep breath and continue working on

was the future he had

the few people he knew

thing he

was the most important thing

later,

had also most likely been

Vice-Dean. Soran had never truly been Shang's biggest fan,

had been sent

hunting beasts and

that she also wouldn't stay alive for

looked like the Council was systematically getting rid of all

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

year later,

hit

and he had had

warrior and a

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

had

and

the biggest

even though Jerald's son died, he had never

needed

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