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.

when Shang arrived at the Grandmountain Kingdom, he didn't seem much different from what Duke Whirlwind

after Shang left the Grandmountain Kingdom and returned, it was like they had

Tide Serpent Zone, and that something was the catalyst

drastically in a Zone without

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

killed several weak people that had

slim, and if Shang wanted to escape,

of simply leaving, Shang always

by the way Shang was talking, it seemed to be the

in his mind, this was the only thing he could

come up with to the problem at

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

seem to think about his actions or the impact. It's like he is forcing himself to do

through Duke Whirlwind's mind, but

like this, but he hadn't

Shang was subconsciously

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

old and knew

continued narrating, the Duke

seems more and more like George,' Duke Whirlwind

back, even if it were for the sole reason of not killing absolutely everyone that even slightly steps in front

bit, but in the end, he only released

my business,' he thought helplessly. 'I'm not his teacher or father. It's not my place

should afford

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

then, Duke Whirlwind's thoughts were pulled back

in the Empress

Shang narrate

as Shang told him how easy and natural it was to kill a Mage on his

even see it as anything

It was just normal.

just a bit of

that moment, Duke Whirlwind focused more on Shang's aura in

he looked at Shang's aura, the

more shocked when he