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 Whirlwind

Grandmountain Kingdom and returned, it was

Serpent Zone, and that something

that drastically in a Zone without any humans

much darker, but Duke Whirlwind noticed that Shang didn't seem to notice the change in his

had killed several weak people that had only accidentally come close

of them actually finding Shang were slim, and if Shang wanted to escape,

leaving, Shang always

talking,

in his mind, this was the only thing he could

solution he could come up with to the problem at

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

like he is forcing himself

Duke Whirlwind's mind, but he

like

Shang was

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

Duke Whirlwind was old and knew

continued narrating, the

more like

that's a good thing. I'm pretty sure it would be better if he could get some empathy back, even if it were for the sole reason of

bit, but in the end, he only released

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

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

it's fine. I only hope that he won't become an enemy

Whirlwind's thoughts were pulled back

had been ambushed in

colder as he heard Shang narrate the battle, which had been

as Shang told him how easy and natural

even see it as anything

It was just normal.

just a bit of

more on

Shang's aura, the more he

more shocked when he realized