Sword God in a World of Magic

"How many times do I have to tell you?! You can't just use a retrograde wall rune near a spontaneous fountain rune!"

"It works, doesn't it?"

"Yeah, sure, but you have to come up with a completely new diagram every time you want to make a new one if you keep randomly throwing things together!"

"So what? Then, I'll do just that. It's not like I haven't been doing that until now!"

Two men and a woman were sitting inside a deep and dark cave. A Peak Ancestral Beast looking like a centipede was just a couple of kilometers deeper in the cave, but it didn't attack them.

The cave was filled with thick Darkness Mana, but the three people sitting in the cave weren't paying the Darkness Mana nor the beast much attention.

They were far more focused on criticizing one guy's Spells.

The woman kept looking at one of the men with a raised eyebrow filled with concern and confusion. She had one icy blue eye and one red eye. Her hair and her robes were violet. Judging by her features and the Mana around her, she had a rare Temperature Affinity.

Another guy was looking at the same man with a ridiculing smirk. He had white eyes but wore grey robes. His hair was grey, but it had white tips. Judging by his features and the Mana around him, he had a Dual Affinity. Light and Time.

The last guy was looking at the two of them with an annoyed expression. He had black and blue eyes and hair. Similar to the woman, he wore purple robes but with a different shade. Based on his features and the Mana around him, he had a Dual Affinity for Darkness and Water, which also granted him an Affinity for Poison.

All three of these people had Affinities that would shock the world, but in the Hibye, they were just like everyone else.

All three of them were Peak Archmages.

They had been talking about the purple man's method for creating Spells for a while, wanting to convince him to follow a standardized pattern, but he kept refusing.

three of them stopped talking and looked with

them

three of them looked back, but they were a bit confused when they saw

had black hair. Yet, he had no eyes, and even more, his

as theirs, which meant that he was also

to top it all off, he

to them? This guy was three levels

you see through his disguise Spell?" the purple man asked, thinking that Shang

the other two

again. "I'm surprised that

on

white-grey man

second!" the woman transmitted to Shang before shooting out of

other two

flying forward and kept hovering in the

them arrived in front of

such a close distance, they couldn't feel any sign of Shang having a mind at the

Elements does it use?" the purple woman asked

Shang

Spell," she answered. "You know, the thing that makes you appear like an Early Archmage. I'm willing to

other nodded

of them was very valuable and could prove to be incredibly effective in the next Wilderness Hunt. During the

of them could look like Late Archmages, dangerous Peak Archmages wouldn't challenge them, and if a Late Archmage challenged them, they would earn some

an amazingly