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.

since it would consume so much time to strengthen all four

one Concepts for all four Elements, and after comprehending four different Concepts,

Affinities couldn't properly be combined in the early Realms, the Mage would only be able to exhibit the power of one level one Concept at

the

this didn't

of his Affinity but because he

was using his Affinities for everything, but one had

offense, and defense mainly came from his body, which

all of a Mage's power came from

comprehend a lot of weak Concepts that were not very useful, due to his techniques and sheer physical strength, his Battle-Strength

had to remember that if Shang didn't use any of his Affinities, his power would still

true for Mages since all their power came from the

as a level four Concept to

time Shang had taken to comprehend

wasn't a Mage, which meant

also didn't have access to a Beast King that was willing

they probably would have

slower in comprehending Concepts

them left the Hadean King behind and traveled back to the

bodyguard for one century more,"

know," Shang

want me to do?"

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

itching to do anything

nice to relax once in a while and earn easy money just by standing in place, but after over 500 years, she almost

to do

through the portal, Shang's Transmission Medal immediately

quite surprised by the Aura of

the Starlight

"Yes?" Shang said.

Sword, the Ancestral Hero, correct?"

"Correct," Shang said.

situation and the true extent of your powers. He said that you are interested in me becoming

"Correct," Shang answered.

have any time right now, but I think things will calm down when we get our

"I've heard," Shang said.

to focus on many different things, and I can't just dedicate my entire

Shang's Aura darkened.

do you want?" Shang

could also feel the Starlight Queen's

consider putting any time aside for you, your method of addressing the other Mage Kings and I has to change," she said with a cold but professional

done a lot for the Lightning Manor deserve to be treated with

addressing you, but I don't see how my