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 what Duke Whirlwind was

Grandmountain Kingdom and returned, it was like they had been

the Tide Serpent Zone, and

change that drastically in a

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

people that had only accidentally come close

them actually finding Shang were slim, and if Shang wanted

instead of simply leaving, Shang

was talking, it seemed to

his mind, this was the only

come up with to

that he now even perceives a minor

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

Whirlwind's mind,

like this, but he hadn't

was subconsciously

completely blocked it out of his being, isolated the

was old and knew a lot about

narrating, the Duke

more like George,'

he could get some empathy back, even if

these thoughts for a bit, but in the end, he

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

should afford him the freedom to make his

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

were pulled back to Shang's

ambushed in the Empress Cobra

heard Shang narrate the battle, which

facial expressions in check as Shang told him how easy and natural

didn't even see it

It was just normal.

just a bit of

focused more on Shang's aura in terms of

at Shang's aura, the more

more shocked