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.

he even needed tens of Grade Six

had reached the True Path Stage when he was a bit over 80 years old, but he reached the Fusion Realm

of his

have been around 55 years old when he reached

It was late.

things would get

to complete it, his number of competitors

that every peer of his would drop one by one, he would eventually

so much had been worth

and owned in order to gain more power, he

Shang confirmed that the Path he

for long, Shang threw a Mind Flow Pellet into his mouth and entered his inner

comprehend the Concept

didn't know how much time had

how long, Shang had used up the entire box

quite an interesting oddity, and it

Addition was different from basically every other Concept Shang had heard

and Addition

them

Fire acted

of Time acted upon Time

like Summer Drizzle, acted upon several kinds of

did the Concept of Addition work

other Concepts worked, one would think that it worked

that was

Addition worked upon every

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

Addition worked not upon all kinds of Mana,

but they are most powerful while

Temperature, and

sure that he was onto something, and he actually decided to forgo some of his physical training so

long time, Shang only sat inside his inner world, not doing

went back to his inner world, and he took hold of his Colossal

He swung forward.

SHING!

illuminated Shang's

swung a

Seemingly nothing happened.

was no light