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

comprehending four different Concepts, their opponents

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

very weak for a very long time since the last

all of this

his Affinity but because he was a

one had to

from his body,

Mage's power

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 Battle-Strength

of his Affinities, his power would still be equal

thing wasn't true for Mages since all

was most likely as difficult as a level four Concept to Shang,

Linay, the time Shang had taken to comprehend a level four Concept

knew that Shang wasn't a Mage, which

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

place, they probably would have comprehended

still slower in comprehending Concepts than an

the Hadean King behind and traveled back to

to be your bodyguard

know," Shang answered

you want me to do?" she

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

itching to

was nice to relax once in a while and earn easy money just

just wanted to do something

the portal, Shang's Transmission Medal immediately

quite surprised by the

was the Starlight

"Yes?" Shang said.

the Ancestral

"Correct," Shang said.

informed me about your situation and the true extent of your powers. He said that you are interested in me becoming your teacher, correct?"

"Correct," Shang answered.

southeastern front, the Research Department, and the Reconnaissance Department. I really don't have

"I've heard," Shang said.

that I need to focus on many different things, and I can't

Shang's Aura darkened.

do you want?" Shang

the Starlight Queen's

you, your method of addressing the other Mage Kings and I has to change," she said with a

done a lot for the Lightning Manor deserve

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