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.

Kingdom, he didn't seem much different

Kingdom and returned, it was like

and that something was

to change that drastically in a Zone without any humans

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

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

actually finding Shang were slim, and if Shang wanted to escape, they would

simply leaving, Shang always killed

Shang was talking,

this was the

only solution he could come

risk that he now even perceives a

like

shot through Duke Whirlwind's mind, but he

like

was

blocked it out

Whirlwind was old and knew a lot about people, he

Shang continued narrating, the Duke stopped

more and more like George,' Duke

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

in the end, he only

thought helplessly. 'I'm not his teacher or father. It's not my place to dictate how

I should afford him the freedom to

what he wants, it's fine. I only hope that he won't become

Whirlwind's thoughts were pulled back

been ambushed in the Empress

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

check as Shang told him how easy and natural

even see it as anything

It was just normal.

a bit

Whirlwind focused more

at Shang's aura, the more he realized how

more shocked when