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 that

to comprehend level one Concepts for all four Elements, and after comprehending four different

be combined in the early Realms, the Mage would only be able to exhibit the

long time since the last

all of this

but

Affinities for everything, but one had to remember that Shang's power always came from

offense, and defense mainly came from his body,

Mage's power came

lot of weak Concepts that were not very useful, due to his techniques and sheer physical strength,

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

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

level four Concept to Shang,

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

she knew that Shang wasn't a Mage,

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

Cloud had access to this place, they probably would have comprehended the Concept in about

was still slower in comprehending Concepts than

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

to be your bodyguard for one century more,"

Shang answered

there anything specific you want me to

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

itching to do

and earn easy money just by standing in place, but after over 500 years, she almost felt

do

stepping through the portal, Shang's Transmission Medal

was quite surprised by

the Starlight

"Yes?" Shang said.

are Shang Sword, the Ancestral Hero, correct?"

"Correct," Shang said.

has informed me about your situation and the true extent of your powers.

"Correct," Shang answered.

don't have

"I've heard," Shang said.

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 extent to which I help you

Shang's Aura darkened.

do you want?" Shang

could also feel the Starlight Queen's Aura change

for you, your method of addressing the other Mage Kings and I has

done a lot for the Lightning Manor

addressing you, but I don't see how my conduct towards other Mage Kings has anything