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 all of

simply didn't have the power to go against

there was something they

critical frontlines,

were expected of them but didn't go beyond. They simply did the bare minimum and tried to stay

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

short, they had given up on

didn't respect them,

these slow changes, the frontlines between the Skythunder Kingdom and the Magic Purity Kingdom became bloody

the Council was forced to

way to announce such a

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

over the years, but for Shang, nothing

was still deep in the

Sword had been

still included him, but he was basically

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

a couple of warriors that

Sword actually

might have been outstanding back then, but

Stage yet? Wouldn't he have shown himself? True Path Stage warriors needed resources and experience. Wouldn't he want to fight Mages?

Shang knew about all of this, he didn't

working on

by day, and Shang could

the underground, and more

years later, some bad news

Ranos had died.

likely been killed by

could only take a deep breath and continue working on his

was the future he

and more of the few people he knew would leave

only thing he

the most important thing to

year later,

also most likely been killed by the

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

woman Viera, had been sent to

gone overboard while hunting beasts

that she also wouldn't stay alive for much

of all the important people in the

year later, Teacher

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

her in

year later,

had hit Jerald very

had been his sole heir, and he had had a bright future

warrior and a powerful Peak True Mage at the same

most powerful person in the Commander Stage

had

too powerful, and

was the biggest

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

that Shang needed a lot of

the other left Jerald's life,