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

returned, it was like they

must have happened in the Tide Serpent Zone, and that something was the

drastically in a Zone without

Whirlwind noticed that Shang

people that had only accidentally come close

and if Shang wanted

simply leaving, Shang

by the way Shang was talking, it

this was the only

he could come up with

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

seem to think about his actions or the impact. It's like he is

reasons shot through Duke Whirlwind's mind,

Shang had always been like this, but he hadn't

was

completely blocked it out of his being, isolated the feeling, and acted

knew a lot

Shang continued narrating, the Duke

seems more and more

get some empathy back, even if it were

for a bit, but in the end,

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

mine, and I should afford him the freedom to make his

won't become an enemy in the future due to some ridiculous

thoughts were

been ambushed in the Empress Cobra

became colder as he heard Shang

him how easy and

even see

It was just normal.

just a bit

that moment, Duke Whirlwind focused more

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

he became even more