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.

Shang arrived at the Grandmountain Kingdom, he didn't seem much

left the Grandmountain Kingdom and returned, it was like they

Zone, and

change that drastically in

Shang's tales became much darker, but Duke Whirlwind noticed that Shang didn't seem to

people that had only accidentally come close to his hiding

chances of them actually finding Shang were slim, and if Shang wanted

leaving,

by the way Shang was talking, it seemed to be

his mind, this was

come up with to the problem at

that poses a risk that he now even perceives a minor inconvenience as

or the impact. It's like he is forcing himself to do these things just to prove something to

potential reasons shot through Duke Whirlwind's mind, but

always been like this,

Shang was subconsciously

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

knew

continued narrating, the Duke

and more

even if it were

Whirlwind mulled over these thoughts for a bit, but in the end, he only released

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

is his life, not mine, and I should

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

then, Duke Whirlwind's thoughts were pulled back to

in the

as he heard Shang narrate the

Shang told him how

see

It was just normal.

just a bit of

Whirlwind focused more on Shang's

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

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