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

the power to go

there was something they

frontlines,

were expected of them but didn't go beyond.

in public. When nobody

given up on the Skythunder

them, they also

these slow changes, the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom became bloody

the Council was forced to lower the pressure they put on the

there was no way to

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

were changing in the world over the years, but for Shang, nothing

still deep in the

Sword

he was basically only

very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were many Early True Path Stage

warriors that reached Mervin's level

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

back then, but

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 fight

knew about

was working

day, and Shang

in the underground, and more time

later, some

Ranos had died.

had most likely been killed by the

a deep breath and continue working on his

was the future he

the few

only thing he could

the most important thing

later,

likely been killed by

fan, but it was still sad to

woman Viera, had been sent to the frontlines as

hunting

guessed that she also wouldn't stay alive for

looked like the Council was systematically getting rid of all the important people in

year later,

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

seen her

year later, Mattheo

hit Jerald

had been his sole heir, and he had had a bright future

warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage at

been the most powerful person

that had

was too powerful, and

was the biggest threat to the

he had never urged

that Shang needed a lot of

the other left Jerald's life,