Sword God in a World of Magic

Eventually, Shang returned to the real world.

Linay quickly noticed that Shang's dormant Spirit Sense was finally moving again after over 500 years, and she released a sigh of relief.

Was he finally done?

"How much time has passed?" Shang asked.

"A bit more than 500 years," she answered.

'That means I'm about 2,900 years old, leaving me with only 2,100 years," Shang thought.

"What about the ore?" Shang asked.

"Everything has been gathered," Linay answered. "Due to the value, I thought it would be better not to let it get delivered to this place. Everything's waiting in the Lightning Manor."

Shang nodded. "Then, let's return."

"You've comprehended the Concept of Temperatures?" Linay asked.

"Yes," Shang answered.

Linay just nodded.

She knew that a couple of Concepts became more difficult based on their connections, and the Concept of Temperatures was one of them.

A couple of people wanted to combine several Elements, but the combining of Concepts always became more and more difficult to comprehend.

Most people focused on only one Element since they also only had one Affinity, but there were also some people that focused on two. Nearly every Cloud trained in at least two Elements.

However, there were also a few people that focused on three Elements.

A good example would be Space, Time, and Gravity.

To combine them, one needed three Concepts. Spacetime, Timegravity, and Gravityspace.

With these Concepts, the power of all three increased by a bit.

Naturally, these Concepts weren't the priority since the small increase in power often wasn't worth the effort. People often only focused on these mixed Concepts when they were already Ancestral Mages or Mage Lords.

There was also a popular mix of Water, Ice, and Wind, which needed the Concepts of States, Snow, and Steam.

Naturally, all four of Shang's Concepts were known. People knew about Temperatures, Twilight, Addition, and Subtraction, but people never focused on all four of them.

The reason was their longevity.

Focusing on three Elements meant equally increasing their power so that none of the three fell behind the other two.

This took a lot of effort for only a small increase in Battle-Strength relative to others.

And four Elements?

Nah.

Forget it.

Too much work.

much time to

to comprehend level one Concepts for all four Elements, and after comprehending four different Concepts, their opponents would have already reached the next Realm and

the early Realms, the Mage would only be

a very long time since the last

all of this didn't apply to

because of his Affinity but because

was using his Affinities for everything, but one had to remember that Shang's power always came from his

speed, offense, and defense mainly came from his body, which were augmented by

a Mage's power came

that were not very useful, due to his techniques and sheer

use any of

true for Mages since all their power came from the

was most likely as difficult as a level four Concept to Shang, which was why she wasn't surprised

had taken to comprehend a level four Concept was

that Shang wasn't a Mage, which meant that

to a Beast King that was willing to demonstrate a

they probably would have comprehended the Concept in about

slower in comprehending Concepts than an

left the Hadean

signed to be your bodyguard for one

Shang

there anything specific you want me to do?" she

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

was itching to do anything

was nice to relax once in a while and earn easy money just by standing in place, but

wanted to do something that wasn't standing

through the portal, Shang's Transmission

was quite surprised by the Aura of the

was the Starlight

"Yes?" Shang said.

are Shang Sword, the Ancestral Hero,

"Correct," Shang said.

me about your situation and the true extent of your powers. He said that you are

"Correct," Shang answered.

southeastern front, the Research Department, and the Reconnaissance Department. I really don't have any time right now, but I think things will calm down when we

"I've heard," Shang said.

on many different things, and I can't just dedicate my entire time to you. Additionally, the extent to which I help you is also

Shang's Aura darkened.

do you want?" Shang

Starlight Queen's Aura change after he asked

me to consider putting any time aside for you, your method of addressing the other Mage Kings and

have done a lot for the Lightning Manor

but I don't see how my conduct towards other Mage Kings has