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.

to realize that the Council was behind

simply didn't have the power to go

there was something

frontlines, even when great rewards were

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

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

given up on the Skythunder

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

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

Skythunder Kingdom increased, and the Council was forced to lower

no way to announce

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 had been responsible for most of the

things were changing in the world over the

the Caves, working on

Count Sword had

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

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

were even a couple of warriors that reached Mervin's

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

been outstanding back then, but would

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 resources and experience.

about all of this, he didn't

working on

by day, and Shang could

deep in the underground, and more

years later, some bad

Ranos had died.

had most likely been killed by the

a deep breath and

was the future

that more and more of the few people

he could do

the most

year later,

also most likely been killed by

been Shang's biggest fan, but it was

student, the woman Viera, had been sent to the

had gone overboard while hunting beasts

guessed that she also wouldn't stay alive for

rid of

year later, Teacher

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

her in 50

one year later,

hit Jerald

been his sole heir, and he had

and a powerful

been the most powerful person in the Commander

exactly that had been

was too powerful, and he

was the biggest threat to the

son died, he had never urged Shang to hurry

Shang needed

friend after the other left Jerald's life, and