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

simply didn't have the power to go against the

was something they

critical frontlines, even when great rewards were

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

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

they had given up on the Skythunder

the leaders didn't respect them, they also

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

the Council was forced to lower the pressure they put

was no way to announce

If they announced now that they were no longer doing these things, it would be like telling everyone that they had been responsible for

in the world over the years, but

the

now, Count Sword had been

he was basically only a footnote, and nobody really

Sword actually existed, he had been only a very powerful and talented Peak Commander Stage warrior. By now, there were

even a couple of warriors that reached Mervin's level

world was changing, and even if Count Sword actually existed, he would only be a

been outstanding back then,

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 fight Mages if he didn't show

Shang knew about

working

day, and Shang could see

in the underground, and

some bad

Ranos had died.

most likely been killed by the

breath and continue

future he

knew that more and more of the

he

was the most important thing to

later, Soran

had also most likely

had never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still sad to see one of George's

other student, the woman Viera, had

hunting beasts and had endangered the

also wouldn't stay alive for

of all the important people in

year later, Teacher

Day of

her in

one year later, Mattheo

had hit Jerald

he had had

had been a powerful Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful

person in the Commander Stage aside

that had been the

powerful, and he was Jerald's

was the biggest threat to

though Jerald's son died, he had never urged Shang to

needed a

after the other left Jerald's life, and it