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.

much time to strengthen all

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

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

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

all of this didn't

his Affinity but because he

had

defense mainly came from his body, which were

Mage's power came from

that were not very useful, due to his techniques and sheer physical strength, his Battle-Strength would still be

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

all their power came from

a level four

to comprehend a level four Concept was

wasn't a Mage, which meant

Beast

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

in comprehending Concepts than an average

them left the Hadean King behind and traveled back to

to be your bodyguard

Shang answered

there anything specific you want me to do?"

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

itching to do anything

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

do something that

portal, Shang's Transmission Medal

by the Aura of the

the Starlight

"Yes?" Shang said.

the Ancestral Hero, correct?" she

"Correct," Shang said.

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

"Correct," Shang answered.

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

"I've heard," Shang said.

some time for you. However, you have to keep in mind that I need to focus on many different

Shang's Aura darkened.

do you want?" Shang

Starlight Queen's Aura change after he asked that

aside for you, your method of addressing the

people that have done a lot for the Lightning

me addressing you, but I don't see how