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.

he didn't seem much different

Grandmountain Kingdom and returned, it was like they had

Tide Serpent Zone, and that

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

point, Shang's tales became much darker, but Duke Whirlwind noticed that Shang didn't seem to

had only accidentally come close to his

finding Shang were slim, and if Shang wanted

simply leaving, Shang always

talking, it

like, in his mind, this was

only solution he could come up with to the problem

to killing everything that poses a risk that he now even perceives a minor inconvenience as a risk and treats it as

his actions or the impact. It's like he

shot through Duke Whirlwind's

Shang had always been like

was

completely blocked it out

Duke Whirlwind was old and knew

the

more and more like George,'

a good thing. I'm pretty sure it would be better if he could get some empathy back, even if it were

Whirlwind mulled over these thoughts for a bit, but in the

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

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

he wants, it's fine. I only hope that he won't become an enemy in the future due

thoughts were

ambushed in the Empress

Whirlwind's eyes became colder as he heard Shang narrate

facial expressions in check as Shang told him how easy and natural

even see

It was just normal.

a bit of

focused more on Shang's aura in

at Shang's aura, the

even more shocked when