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 Mana Crystals

bit over 80 years old, but he reached

half of his life

Earth terms, Shang would have been around 55

It was late.

things would get

Shang managed to complete it, his

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

much had been

owned in order to gain more power, he

the Path he

Mind Flow

comprehend

didn't know how much

who knew how long, Shang had used up the entire box of Mind Flow Pellets, but he

comprehended quite a bit. The Concept of Addition was quite an interesting oddity, and it

Addition was different from basically every other

and Addition were

made them

Fire acted upon Fire

of Time acted upon

Summer Drizzle, acted

did the Concept

Concepts worked, one would think that it worked

was where it

Concept of Addition worked upon every kind

Mana, Darkness Mana, Ice Mana, Space Mana, Time Mana, Life Mana, Death Mana, and even Neutral

of Addition worked not upon all kinds of Mana, but upon the very principle of Mana

work on their own, but

Subtraction, Temperature, and Twilight,

something, and he actually decided to forgo some of his physical training

only sat inside

back to his inner world, and he took hold of

He swung forward.

SHING!

illuminated

swung a second

Seemingly nothing happened.

was no light