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.

consume so much time to strengthen all

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

early Realms, the Mage would only be able

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

all of this didn't apply

Affinity but because he

but one had to remember that Shang's power

and defense mainly came from his body, which were

all of a Mage's power came

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

didn't use any of his

wasn't true for Mages since all their power came from the very Concepts

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

comprehend a level four Concept was average

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

have access to a Beast King that was willing to demonstrate

a Cloud had access to this place, they probably would

slower in comprehending Concepts than an average

the Hadean King behind and

bodyguard

know," Shang answered

you want me

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

itching to do

earn easy money just by standing in place, but after over 500 years,

to do something that wasn't standing

portal, Shang's

by

the

"Yes?" Shang said.

Sword, the Ancestral

"Correct," Shang said.

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

"Correct," Shang answered.

really don't have any

"I've heard," Shang said.

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

Shang's Aura darkened.

you want?" Shang

the Starlight Queen's Aura change

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

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

don't see how my conduct towards other