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.

warriors started to realize that

the power

something they

frontlines, even when great rewards

didn't go beyond. They simply

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

had given

leaders didn't respect them, they also wouldn't

slow changes, the frontlines between the Skythunder

Council was

way to announce such

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

world over

the Caves,

Count Sword had been completely

but he was

By now, there were many Early True Path Stage warriors and even a couple of Mid True

even a couple of warriors

Count Sword actually existed,

outstanding back then,

shown himself? True Path

if Shang knew about all of this,

working

day, and Shang could see

the underground,

some bad news

Ranos had died.

had most likely been killed by the

deep breath

the future he

and more of the few people

only thing he could do

the most important thing to

later, Soran

most likely been

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

the woman Viera, had been sent to

gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered the

guessed that she also wouldn't stay alive for much

systematically getting rid of all

year later,

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

her in 50

year later,

had hit Jerald

he had had

Commander Stage warrior and a powerful

person in the Commander Stage

had been

and

was the biggest threat

he had never

knew that Shang needed a

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