Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang activated his Domain of Entropy but didn't use it to destroy the matter around him. It didn't have any offensive capabilities in this state, but the Abominations would surely sense it.

For several minutes, Shang simply waited in the middle of the lake. Since his Domain was destroying nothing, the beasts also didn't notice it.

After about ten minutes, Shang felt something.

He felt a kind of connection with something very distant.

It was like Shang was feeling innumerable sleeping presences far away.

The last time Shang had summoned Abominations had been on accident during his breakthrough. Obviously, he hadn't had the time to concentrate on these presences since he had been busy with his breakthrough.

But this time, he could fully focus on them.

The presences all had different levels of power. Most of them were incredibly weak, and Shang was pretty certain that these weak presences symbolized Soldier Stage Abominations.

There were also a lot of more powerful presences, which should be the General Stage Abominations.

The strongest presences, which should be the Commander Stage Abominations, were only about 20 in number.

'I can control what I summon?' Shang thought with furrowed brows.

Shang slowly reached out to one of the Commander Stage Abominations and slowly pulled.

He felt the presence steer, but along with it steered about 20 General Stage Abominations and around 400 Soldier Stage Abominations.

Shang stopped pulling on that one and focused on another Commander Stage Abomination.

However, 20 General Stage Abominations and 400 Soldier Stage Abominations still steered, but they were different ones.

Now, Shang slowly understood what was going on.

'This is basically a hierarchy or an org chart,' Shang thought. 'If I pull a manager out of an org chart, I will pull all their employees with them.'

That's when Shang realized something else.

'One Abomination is always superior to 20 other Abominations. Then, since I can sense 20 Commander Stage Abominations, it means that this is the army of a True Path Stage Abomination.'

'However, I can't feel the True Path Stage Abomination.'

'I also don't feel any kind of superior connection coming out of the Commander Stage Abominations. It's almost like there is no True Path Stage Abomination superior to them.'

Shang wasn't sure what he should think about that, but he also knew that he probably wouldn't be able to find out the reason.

Because of that, he focused on his plan.

'Seems like I'm forced to summon a total of 421 Abominations if I want to absorb a Commander Stage Abomination.'

'That's a lot of destruction and power. Every single one of them can explode with incredible force. If I were to summon them in a Zone filled with humans, I might end up killing hundreds or thousands of humans.'

Shang felt a pit appear in his stomach when that thought entered his mind.

being responsible for an entire city being wiped out just for being near him was not something he wanted to

somewhat control the Abominations, but I don't think that they will just

in which Zones

Shang pulled on one of the Commander

grew more powerful and present alongside its

a couple of seconds

SHING!

Commander Stage Abomination appeared right in

like the one Shang

felt a deep connection with it, but

SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING!

the General Stage Abominations appeared around the lake. Apparently, they had somewhat spread out

Stage Abominations appeared all

to the pressure

was already

no way

grabbed the Abomination, and it entered his body without

body instantly reached 78% of

time, Shang felt the Abominations becoming

They hated this place!

everything

like their life's purpose was to destroy

Shang's

couldn't just ask them

and destroy, no matter what Shang

only thing he could do was to direct their hatred in

did

the bottom of the lake!" he ordered them

an avalanche, all the remaining Abominations violently

order, Shang immediately charged toward

BZZT!

seconds later, the Thunder Horse's mark activated, which meant that something very powerful had taken note

that's the Tide

BOOOOOOM! BOOOOOM!

retreated, the water around him suddenly started to vibrate. At the same time,

the Abominations decided to blow themselves up, they could unleash terrifying

Soldier Stage Abomination had a shot at killing a Commander Stage beast if

Stage Abomination could do the same with

to sacrifice parts of himself

hundreds of smaller Shangs were using that ability to

It was terrifying.

shot throughout the lake as Shang reached the surface

destroyed, but it had to be a

through the lake's surface and came into contact with air for the first time

as before, the sky was dark and filled with Darkness Mana. However, that was good. With so much Darkness Mana, Shang could make full

blasting into the air, Shang threw a glance at

Silence.

The lake was calm.