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

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

than half of

Shang would have been around 55

It was late.

things would get even

complete it, his number of competitors would

anymore, by the sheer fact that every peer of his would

so much had been

in order to

the Path he had

Flow Pellet

comprehend the Concept of

how much time

knew how long, Shang had used up the entire box

comprehended quite a bit. The Concept of Addition was quite an interesting oddity, and it was very different from the level

Addition was different from basically every other Concept Shang had

and Addition were

made them

the Concepts of Fire acted upon

of Time

Concepts, like Summer Drizzle, acted upon

did

would think that it worked on Light and Fire

was where

worked upon every kind of

Mana, Darkness Mana, Ice Mana, Space Mana, Time Mana,

Addition worked not upon all kinds of Mana,

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

Subtraction, Temperature, and

he actually decided to forgo some of his physical training so that he could concentrate more

time, Shang only sat

his inner world, and

He swung forward.

SHING!

illuminated

Shang swung

Seemingly nothing happened.

was no light