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.

Grandmountain Kingdom, he didn't seem much different from what Duke

Shang left the Grandmountain Kingdom and returned, it was like they had been switched

the Tide Serpent Zone, and that something was the catalyst for

what could have motivated Shang to change that drastically in a Zone without

Shang's tales became much darker, but Duke Whirlwind noticed that

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

finding Shang were slim, and if Shang

instead of simply leaving, Shang always killed

was talking, it seemed

was like, in his mind, this

the only solution he could come

everything that poses a risk that he now even perceives a minor inconvenience as a risk and treats it as such, regardless of

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

shot through Duke Whirlwind's mind, but he couldn't be

like this, but

Shang was subconsciously

Shang was so aggrieved by his own guilt that he completely blocked it out of his being, isolated the feeling, and acted like

was old and knew a lot about people, he

continued narrating, the Duke stopped paying

and more

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

bit, but in the end, he only released

teacher or father. It's not my place to dictate

I should afford him

only hope that he won't become an enemy in the future due to some

were

in the

he heard Shang narrate the battle,

Shang told him how easy and natural it was to kill

even see

It was just normal.

a bit of

focused more on Shang's aura

he looked at Shang's aura, the more he realized how threatening

became even more shocked when he realized