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.

time to strengthen all four of them

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

the early Realms, the Mage would only be able to exhibit the power of one level one Concept at

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

this didn't

Affinity but because he was a

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

offense, and defense mainly came from his body, which

a Mage's power

very useful, due to his techniques and sheer

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

Mages since all their power came from the very Concepts

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

Shang had taken to comprehend

she knew that Shang wasn't a Mage, which meant that

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

they probably would have comprehended the Concept in about 400

was still slower in comprehending

left the Hadean King behind and traveled back to

be your bodyguard for one century more,"

Shang

you want me to do?" she

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

to do

nice to relax once in a while and earn easy money just by standing in place, but after over 500 years, she

to do something that

through the portal, Shang's Transmission Medal

quite surprised by the Aura of

the Starlight

"Yes?" Shang said.

the Ancestral Hero,

"Correct," Shang said.

true extent of your powers. He said

"Correct," Shang answered.

the Research Department, and the Reconnaissance Department. I really don't have any time right now, but I think things will calm down when

"I've heard," Shang said.

need to focus on many different things, and

Shang's Aura darkened.

you want?" Shang

Queen's Aura change after he

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

that have done a lot for the Lightning Manor deserve to be

me addressing you, but I don't see how my