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 of them

Elements, and after comprehending four different Concepts, their opponents would have

the Mage would only be able to exhibit the power of

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

all of this didn't apply

but because he was a

Affinities for everything, but one had

defense mainly came from his body, which were augmented

of a Mage's power came from their

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

that if Shang didn't use any of his Affinities, his power would still be

for Mages since all their power came from the very Concepts they

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

had taken to comprehend a level four Concept was average for a

Shang wasn't a Mage, which

Beast King that was willing to demonstrate

to this place, they probably would have comprehended

slower in comprehending

the two of them left the Hadean King behind and traveled back to the

signed to be your bodyguard for one

Shang answered

want me to do?"

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

was itching to

earn easy money just by standing in place, but after

to do something that

portal, Shang's Transmission Medal immediately

by the

was the

"Yes?" Shang said.

Shang Sword, the

"Correct," Shang said.

extent of your powers. He said that you are interested in me becoming your

"Correct," Shang answered.

don't have any time right now, but I think things

"I've heard," Shang said.

find some time for you. However, you have to keep in mind that I need to focus on many different

Shang's Aura darkened.

you want?"

also feel the Starlight Queen's Aura change after he asked that

putting any time aside for you, your method of addressing

done a lot for the Lightning Manor deserve to

don't see how