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

something they

appeared on the critical frontlines, even

didn't go beyond. They simply did the

their new power or show themselves in public. When nobody knew that they existed,

they had given

respect them, they also wouldn't

the Skythunder Kingdom and

Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was

no way

had done previously had been done in the shadows. If they announced now that they were no longer

world over the years, but for

deep in the Caves, working on

Sword had been

on politics still included him, but he was basically only a footnote, and nobody really

if Count 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 warriors

even if Count Sword actually existed, he would only

been outstanding back then, but would he

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

about all of this, he didn't

working on

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

remained deep in the underground,

years later, some bad

Ranos had died.

likely been

could only take a deep breath

future

the few people he knew

thing he could

most

later,

also most likely been killed by the

been Shang's biggest fan,

student, the woman Viera, had been sent to the frontlines as

gone overboard while hunting beasts and had

guessed that she also wouldn't stay alive for much

Council was systematically getting rid of all the

later, Teacher Niria

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

seen her in

year later,

had hit

heir, and he

Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage at the

been the most powerful person in the Commander

exactly that had been the

was too powerful, and he was Jerald's

was the biggest threat to the

died, he had never urged Shang to

Shang needed a lot

friend after the other left Jerald's life, and it was very