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.

since it would consume so much time to strengthen all four of them that their longevity would run

guy would need 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

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

a very long time since the last of the four required Concepts

this didn't

but because

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

defense mainly came from his body, which were

Mage's power came

very useful, due to his techniques and sheer physical strength, his

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

for Mages since all their power

level four Concept to Shang, which was why

to comprehend a level four Concept was average for

Shang wasn't a Mage, which meant

have access to a Beast King that was

a Cloud had access to this place, they probably would have comprehended the Concept in about 400

still slower in comprehending Concepts than

two of them left the Hadean King

be your bodyguard for one century

Shang answered

anything specific you want me to do?"

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

to do

earn easy money just

do something that wasn't standing

through the portal, Shang's

by the

the

"Yes?" Shang said.

are Shang Sword, the Ancestral Hero, correct?" she

"Correct," Shang said.

and the true extent of your powers. He said that

"Correct," Shang answered.

really don't have any time

"I've heard," Shang said.

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

Shang's Aura darkened.

do you want?" Shang

Starlight Queen's Aura change

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

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

I don't see how my conduct towards other Mage Kings has anything