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

years to comprehend level one Concepts for all four Elements, and after comprehending four different Concepts, their opponents would

Realms, the Mage would only be able to exhibit the power

weak for a very long time since the last of

of this didn't apply

but because he

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

speed, offense, and defense mainly came from his body,

a Mage's power came from their

needed to comprehend a lot of weak Concepts that were not very

didn't use any of his Affinities, his power would

for Mages since all their power

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

taken to comprehend a level four Concept was average for a

Shang wasn't a Mage, which meant

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

this place, they probably would have comprehended the Concept in about

slower in comprehending Concepts than an average

two of them left the Hadean King behind

be your bodyguard for one century more,"

Shang

you want

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

itching to do

in a while and earn easy money just by

wanted to do something

the portal, Shang's

quite surprised by the Aura

the

"Yes?" Shang said.

Shang Sword, the Ancestral

"Correct," Shang said.

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

"Correct," Shang answered.

Reconnaissance Department. I really don't have any time right now, but I think things will calm down when we get our new

"I've heard," Shang said.

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 extent to which I help you

Shang's Aura darkened.

you want?"

the Starlight Queen's Aura change after

any time aside for you, your method of addressing the other Mage

for the Lightning Manor deserve to be

understand the problem you have with me addressing you, but I don't see how my