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

and returned, it was

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

drastically in a Zone without any humans and only

but Duke Whirlwind noticed that Shang didn't seem to notice the change

people that had only accidentally come

and if Shang wanted to escape, they

of simply leaving, Shang always killed

the way Shang was talking, it seemed to

mind, this was the only thing he could

solution he could come up with to

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

It's like he is forcing himself to do these things just

Duke Whirlwind's mind,

like

Shang was

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

old and knew a lot

narrating, the Duke stopped

and more like George,'

sure it would be better if he could get some empathy back, even if it were for the sole reason of not killing absolutely everyone that

but in the end, he only released a hidden sigh Shang

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

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

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

Whirlwind's thoughts were pulled back to Shang's

in the

Whirlwind's eyes became colder as he heard Shang narrate the battle, which

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

even see it as anything

It was just normal.

a

more on Shang's aura in terms

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

even more shocked when he