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.

wouldn't even attempt it since it would consume so much time to strengthen all four of them

to focus for many years 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 would

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

would be very weak for a very long time since the last of the four

of this

of his Affinity but because he

had to

offense, and defense mainly came from

a Mage's power came from their

comprehend a lot of weak Concepts that were not very useful,

of his Affinities, his power would still be equal to

same thing wasn't true for Mages since all their

difficult as a level four Concept to Shang, which was why

the time Shang had taken to comprehend a level four

Mage, which

didn't have access to a Beast

probably would

comprehending Concepts than an

Hadean King behind and traveled back to the

bodyguard for one

know," Shang

anything specific you want

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

to

easy money just by standing

do

portal, Shang's Transmission Medal

quite surprised by the Aura of the

the

"Yes?" Shang said.

Shang Sword, the Ancestral Hero,

"Correct," Shang said.

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

"Correct," Shang answered.

have any time right now, but I think

"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

Shang's Aura darkened.

you want?" Shang

the Starlight Queen's Aura change after he asked that

time aside for you, your method of addressing the other Mage Kings

done a lot for the Lightning Manor deserve to be treated

problem you have with me addressing you, but I don't see how my conduct towards other Mage Kings has anything to do with