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

the power

something they

warriors appeared on the critical frontlines, even when

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

in public. When nobody knew that they existed, they couldn't be forced to fight

short, they had given up on the

respect them, they also

the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and

increased, and the Council was forced to

way to

announced now that they were no longer doing these things, it

over the years,

in the

now, Count Sword

general lectures on politics still included him, but he was basically only a

warrior. By now, there were many Early True Path Stage warriors

even a couple of warriors that reached Mervin's

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

then, but would he still

guy actually were so powerful, why wasn't he at the True Path Stage yet? Wouldn't he have shown himself? True Path Stage warriors needed

knew about all of

working on something

increasing day by day, and Shang could see

the underground,

some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

most likely been killed by

deep breath and

future

and more of the few people he

thing he could

was the most important

year later, Soran

had also most likely

biggest fan, but it was still sad

the woman Viera, had been sent to the frontlines as

overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered

wouldn't

Council was systematically getting rid of all the important people

later, Teacher Niria

quota for the Day of Chaos, and she had also been the

hadn't seen her in

year later, Mattheo

hit Jerald

sole heir, and he had

powerful Peak Commander Stage warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage at the

the most powerful person

exactly that had

was too powerful, and he was

was the biggest

Jerald's son died, he had

Shang needed a

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