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 from

returned, it was

Serpent Zone, and

could have motivated Shang to change that drastically in a Zone without any humans and only

darker, but Duke Whirlwind noticed that

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

actually finding Shang were slim, and if Shang

of simply leaving, Shang always

by the way Shang was talking, it seemed

was like, in his mind, this

solution he could come up with

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

like he

Duke Whirlwind's mind, but he couldn't

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

was subconsciously

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

knew

continued narrating, the Duke

more like George,' Duke Whirlwind

thing. I'm pretty sure it would be better if he could get some empathy back, even if it were for

but in the end, he only

his teacher or father. It's not my place to dictate how

not mine, and I should

become an enemy in the future due

were pulled

in the Empress

Shang narrate the

keep his facial expressions in check as Shang told him how easy and natural it was to

even see it as anything

It was just normal.

just a

more on Shang's aura in terms of

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

more shocked when