Sword God in a World of Magic

After a while, Shang left the branch of the Temple of Blood to continue comprehending the Concept of Addition in front of the Yellow Sunbreaker.

'As long as I keep growing more powerful, huh?' Shang thought.

'I don't think things are that easy.'

'It might have been that easy for the Keeper, but it doesn't mean that it will be that easy for me.'

'The Temple is not investing resources into the creation of Sweepers. Sweepers are not important enough to invest in. That means that my talent and potential peak in the future must be, at least, at the Peak Sixth Realm. Additionally, they would probably even want me to be quite powerful in that Realm.'

'While I am certain that I will reach that power, other people might not.'

'It's also possible that they will take my current speed of growth as a representation and trade me to someone else for a lot of resources, believing that my rapid growth will stop soon.'

'Things definitely aren't as simple as just becoming more powerful.'

Sadly, there was nothing Shang could do about all of this right now.

He had already done his best to show his value, and now, he could only wait.

Whether he decided to put his everything into training or sleep for several years, his fate wouldn't change.

But just as always, Shang still put his everything into training.

Power.

Power was his existence, goal, motivation, worth, hobby, and love.

There were about nine other Archmages in the world that were about as powerful as him, and two of them were definitely more powerful than him.

The foundation of power for all of these people had already been built, and from now on, it all depended on how one built upon that foundation.

Every additional level will become more and more difficult.

Reaching the General Stage was easy. Shang even had to be careful not to reach it on accident.

Reaching the Commander Stage was hard. Comprehending a Domain took a lot of work and even a dangerous fight.

Reaching the True Path Stage had been agonizing. Shang had trained in isolation for around 50 years without pause or doing anything else.

Reaching the Fusion Realm had been even harder. Not only had Shang needed to fine-tune his Mana pathways, which had temporarily weakened his Battle-Strength, but he had also needed to create a Beast Core and even comprehend an Impose before even reaching the Early True Path Stage.

of Grade Six Mana Crystals to comprehend

he was a bit over 80 years old, but he reached the Fusion Realm only when he was

of

Earth terms, Shang would have been around 55 years old when he reached the Fusion

It was late.

things would get even more

Shang managed to complete it, his number of competitors would

if Shang's Battle-Strength didn't grow anymore, by the sheer fact that every peer of his would drop one by one, he

had

owned in order to gain more power, he

confirmed that the Path he had

Mind Flow Pellet into his

comprehend the Concept

know how

up the entire box of Mind Flow Pellets, but he

The Concept of Addition was quite an interesting oddity, and it was very different from the level one Concepts of Light and

fact, the Concept of Addition was different from basically every other

and Addition were

made them so

the Concepts of Fire acted upon

of Time acted upon

acted upon several kinds of

of Mana did the

Concepts worked, one would think that it worked on

that was

Addition worked upon

Mana, Time Mana, Life

upon all kinds of Mana, but upon the

and Subtraction can work on their own, but they are most

Subtraction, Temperature, and

was pretty sure that he was onto something, and he actually decided to forgo some of his

sat inside his inner

to his inner world, and he took hold of

He swung forward.

SHING!

light illuminated Shang's inner

swung a

Seemingly nothing happened.

no light