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.

so much time to strengthen all four of them that their longevity

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

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

for a very long time since the last

all of this

but because he was

one had to

from

all of a Mage's power came from

not very useful, due to his techniques

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

all

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

comprehend a level four Concept was average for

Mage, which

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

probably would have comprehended the Concept in

was still slower in comprehending Concepts than

Hadean King behind

to be your bodyguard for one

Shang

there anything specific you want me to

"No," Shang answered.

Linay could only sigh.

was itching to do

money just by standing in place, but after over 500 years, she

do something

portal, Shang's Transmission Medal immediately

quite surprised by the Aura of

the Starlight

"Yes?" Shang said.

Sword, the Ancestral Hero,

"Correct," Shang said.

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

"Correct," Shang answered.

have any time right now, but I think things will calm down when we get our new Mage

"I've heard," Shang said.

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 is also up to my

Shang's Aura darkened.

do you

Starlight Queen's Aura

you even want me to consider putting any time aside for you, your method of addressing the other Mage Kings and I has to change," she said

and people that have done a lot for the Lightning Manor

you have with me addressing you, but I don't see how my conduct towards other Mage