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.

with killing his enemies but being responsible for an entire city being wiped out just for being near him was not

somewhat control the Abominations, but I don't

should be careful in which Zones I

Shang pulled on one of the Commander

presence grew more powerful and present

a couple

SHING!

appeared right in front of

like the one Shang had

with it, but

SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING!

all the General Stage Abominations appeared around the lake. Apparently, they

Soldier Stage Abominations appeared all over the

they appeared, nearly half of them died to the pressure deep inside

was

no

it entered his

as his body instantly reached

same time, Shang felt the

They hated this place!

hated everything they

their life's purpose was

moment, Shang's suspicion was

ask

destroy, no matter

he could do was to direct their hatred

did just

the lake!"

remaining Abominations violently charged

Shang immediately

BZZT!

activated, which meant that something very powerful

that's the Tide

BOOOOOOM! BOOOOOM!

started to vibrate. At the same time, Shang could hear

the Abominations decided to blow themselves up, they could unleash

Soldier Stage Abomination had a shot at killing a

Abomination could do the same with a

ability to sacrifice parts of himself to unleash an insane amount of

now, hundreds of smaller Shangs were using that ability to

It was terrifying.

lake as Shang reached the surface of the

Abominations destroyed, but it had

broke through the lake's surface and came into contact with

Mana. However, that was good. With so much Darkness Mana, Shang could make

into the air, Shang threw a glance

Silence.

The lake was calm.