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 was

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

have happened in the Tide Serpent Zone, and that

drastically

much darker, but Duke Whirlwind noticed that Shang

had killed several weak people that had only

and

instead of simply leaving, Shang

the way Shang was talking, it seemed to be the

like, in his mind, this

the only solution he could come up with to the

a risk that he now even perceives a minor inconvenience as a risk and treats it as such, regardless of the cost?'

or the impact. It's like he

shot through Duke Whirlwind's mind,

been like

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

Duke Whirlwind was old and knew a lot about people, he

continued narrating, the Duke

more like George,' Duke Whirlwind

don't think 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 not killing absolutely everyone that even

but in the

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

should afford him the freedom to make

wants, it's fine. I only hope that he won't become an enemy in the future due to some ridiculous reason born of his

thoughts were pulled back to Shang's

ambushed in

eyes became colder as he heard Shang narrate the battle,

Whirlwind had to keep his facial expressions in check as Shang told him how easy and natural it was to kill a Mage on

didn't even see it as anything

It was just normal.

was just a bit

Duke Whirlwind focused more on Shang's aura in terms of

the more he realized

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