Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang only looked at Duke Whirlwind. "A lot of things happened, and I came back with a lot of information regarding the Grandmountain Kingdom."

Duke Whirlwind looked at Shang with a complex expression.

He wasn't sure if Shang understood what he had actually meant.

However, Duke Whirlwind was also interested in what actually happened to Shang in the last decade. What could change someone to such a degree?

Shang told Duke Whirlwind basically everything except for the trial and the Abominations. He only used the Abominations once, which was when he escaped from the Grandmountain Kingdom initially.

As Duke Whirlwind listened more to Shang's story, his focus shifted to the actual intelligence Shang brought back.

The information he brought back was monumental!

How the barbarians trained.

The way the Grandmountain Kingdom organized its forces.

Insight into the distribution of their forces.

And, most importantly, the method the Mages had created to stack so many Strengthening Spells on a single barbarian.

Shang had been that researcher's plaything for several months, and he had also been under the effect of these Spells while assaulting the Plague Rat Zone.

During these months, he had learned a lot about how the Mages accomplished these things.

When Shang came to the part where he killed Lash, Duke Whirlwind noticed that something wasn't right.

Doing this was unlike the Shang he had just heard of a minute ago.

Duke Whirlwind would have bet that Shang would have simply trusted Lash. After all, he was an old friend, and the Mages wouldn't even interrogate him.

Duke Whirlwind even remembered hearing about a similar incident before Shang had left.

A couple of students of the Warrior's Academy had found out about Shang's Affinity, but even at the behest of the Dean, Shang had decided to keep them alive.

That risk was far greater than the risk Lash had posed, but Shang had still let them go.

arrived at the Grandmountain Kingdom, he didn't seem much different from what Duke Whirlwind was

Kingdom and returned, it was

happened in the Tide Serpent Zone, and that something was the catalyst for Shang's rapid

motivated Shang to change that drastically in a Zone without any humans and

Whirlwind noticed that Shang didn't seem to notice the

killed several weak people that had only accidentally come close to his

were slim, and if Shang wanted to escape, they would

of simply leaving,

was talking, it

this was the only

only solution he could come up with to the problem

risk that he now even perceives a minor inconvenience as a risk and treats it as such, regardless of the cost?' Duke

his actions or the impact. It's like he is forcing himself to do these things just

potential reasons shot through Duke Whirlwind's mind, but

Shang had always been like this,

was

his own guilt that he completely blocked it out of his being, isolated

old and knew a lot

Shang continued narrating, the

seems more and more

some empathy back, even if it were for

in the end, he only released a hidden sigh Shang

that's not my business,' he thought helplessly. 'I'm not his teacher or father. It's

life, not mine, and I should afford him the freedom to

hope that he won't become an enemy in the future due to some ridiculous reason born

then, Duke Whirlwind's thoughts were

had been ambushed in

colder as he heard Shang narrate the battle,

as Shang told him how easy and natural it was to kill a Mage on

didn't even see it

It was just normal.

just a bit

that moment, Duke Whirlwind focused more on

the

he became even more shocked