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.

so much time 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 have comprehended a

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

since the last of the four required Concepts would be a level four

this didn't apply to

his Affinity but

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

from his body, which were augmented

Mage's power came

if Shang needed to comprehend a lot of weak Concepts that were not very useful, due to his techniques and

if Shang didn't use any of his Affinities,

same thing wasn't true for Mages since all their power came from

of Temperatures was most likely as difficult as a level four Concept to

had taken to comprehend a level four Concept was average

wasn't a Mage, which meant that he should be

have access to a Beast King that

Cloud had access to this place, they probably would have comprehended

slower in comprehending

them left the Hadean King behind and

your bodyguard for

Shang

you want me

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

itching to

to relax once in a while and earn easy money just by

wanted to do something that wasn't standing

the portal, Shang's

by the Aura of

the

"Yes?" Shang said.

Sword, the Ancestral Hero,

"Correct," Shang said.

and the true extent of your powers. He said that you are interested in me becoming your teacher, correct?"

"Correct," Shang answered.

really don't have any time right now, but I

"I've heard," Shang said.

a bit more than a century, I can find some time for you. However, you have to keep in mind that I need to focus on many different things, and I can't just dedicate my entire time to you. Additionally, the

Shang's Aura darkened.

do you want?" Shang

feel the Starlight Queen's

of addressing the other Mage Kings and I has to change," she said with a cold but

and people that have done a lot for the

don't see how my conduct