Sword God in a World of Magic

"Increase the temperature inside the furnace as much as possible while using as little Fire Mana as possible," Shang read.

'Interesting. This is a trial that tests someone's mastery over the Fire Affinity. Hotter fire is more destructive, and by using as little Fire Mana as possible, this trial is testing the quality of someone's Concepts and mastery over fire.'

'The level four Concept of Fire is Explosion, which can probably produce extremely hot flames. Even the level three Concept Incineration can create powerful flames, but for a Cloud that found this place, this is probably the bare minimum.'

'However, this is also just the first trial. I would expect it to be easy.'

'I guess it needs the level three Concept of Fire, Incineration to complete it. I guess a Cloud that knows a lot about temperatures would have comprehended that Concept.'

'Sadly, I don't have that Concept.'

Shang walked over to the glass furnace and flew to its top.

Then, he extended his right hand.

A moment later, the space below his hand seemed to distort with some invisible waves.

After some time, the air in the entire furnace seemed to warp and wave in a strange manner. It was almost like the world inside the furnace was about to break down.

Ding!

At that moment, the door leading out of the room opened as the barrier vanished.

Shang had fulfilled the requirements.

He might not have the Concept of Incineration, but he had the Concept of Addition.

Light had two aspects, which were mass and brightness.

Fire also had two aspects, which were heat and brightness.

Shang had converted all the brightness in the fire into heat, which was why the fire he had just dropped in the furnace had been nearly invisible to the eye.

Naturally, this kind of fire was far hotter than normal fire since all of its power was focused on heat.

And that had been enough for Shang to get past the first trial.

Shang landed in front of the exit and walked through it.

Some seconds later, Shang opened the door to the second trial.

This time, there was a blue cube in the middle of the room.

Shang looked to the side at an emblem and read the instructions.

hold a limited amount of Ice Mana. Make

the opposite of the first

of Ice is Blizzard, which doesn't seem to decrease the

Concept of Ice, Zero, would decrease

expect an Early Ancestral Mage to know the

rating wouldn't just be a two. Sure, they could

the level three Concept

don't have

walked over to the cube and put

second later, the cube began

Ding!

opened, and the barrier

got through that

darkness also had two properties each, which could be manipulated with the

void meaning the absence of light in this

cold and

simply pushed his Ice Mana to the

to the extreme of heat transformed into

to the extreme of coldness transformed into something

about the

was where the connection between the Affinities

would produce the same thing as

Very bright light.

where these

same thing was true for ice that was pushed to the extreme of

would just become a

that was pushed to the extreme of absorption did just what

one could envision a line

to fire brightness to light brightness to light mass to darkness absorption to darkness void to ice void to ice coldness to

contestant to use the pure Concepts of Fire and Ice to get through the trials, but the Concepts

had designed the trials probably

the trials were

left the blue cube behind and exited the second

he reached the third trial, and as soon as he saw it, he realized

CRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

SSSSSSSHHH!

in front of Shang was consumed by a sea of terrifyingly hot flames one instant before being flooded with

temperatures were changing several times per second, and the extremes of temperatures were no

kill an Early Ancestral

that, there was something else that

his Spirit Sense, which probably