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

Shang left the Grandmountain Kingdom and returned, it was

Tide Serpent Zone, and that something was

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

Duke Whirlwind noticed that Shang didn't seem to notice the change in

several weak people that had only accidentally come close

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

leaving, Shang always

the way Shang was talking, it seemed to be the

mind, this was the only

was the only solution he could come up with to the

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

impact. It's like he is forcing himself to do

reasons shot through Duke Whirlwind's mind, but he

always been like this, but he

was

guilt that he completely blocked it out of his being, isolated the feeling, and

Whirlwind was old and knew a lot about

Shang continued narrating, the Duke stopped paying

more and more like George,' Duke Whirlwind

it would be better if he could get some empathy back, even if it were

these thoughts for a bit, but in the end,

or father. It's not

mine, and I should afford him the freedom to make his own

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

then, Duke Whirlwind's thoughts were pulled back to Shang's

been ambushed in the Empress

Shang narrate the battle, which had been

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

didn't even see it as

It was just normal.

was just a bit of

that moment, Duke Whirlwind focused more

the more he realized how threatening it

even more shocked