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 Council

simply didn't have the power to go against the

was something they could

on the critical frontlines, even when

but didn't

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

had given

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

changes, the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity

pressure on the Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was forced to lower the pressure they put

there was no way to announce such a

they were no longer doing these things, it would be

over the years, but for Shang,

in the Caves, working

Count Sword had been completely

on politics still included him, but he was basically only a footnote, and

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

of warriors

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

have been outstanding back then, but would he

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 Shang knew about all

was working on

was increasing day by day, and Shang

remained deep in the underground, and more time

years later, some bad news reached

Ranos had died.

had most likely been killed

only take a deep breath and continue working on

the future

that more and more of the few

he could do

most important thing

year later,

likely been killed by

remembered the Vice-Dean. Soran had never truly been Shang's biggest fan, but it was still

other student, the woman Viera, had

gone overboard while hunting beasts and had endangered the

wouldn't stay alive

systematically getting rid of all the important people

later,

gave Shang the quota for the Day of

hadn't seen her

one year later,

hit Jerald

and he had had a bright

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

probably been the most powerful person in the Commander Stage aside from

had

and

the biggest threat to the

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

knew that Shang needed

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