Sword God in a World of Magic

Over the next ten years, Shang continued experimenting with the Abominations while also absorbing them.

Surprisingly, being amongst other Abominations while he himself was influenced by an Abomination's will didn't make any difference.

Shang had expected that he would probably feel some kind of connection with the other Abominations while his mindset temporarily emulated all of them, but he didn't feel anything like that.

This told Shang that Abominations were not herd animals or something like that.

Yet, that was actually quite contradictory.

The mindset of an Abomination was filled with hate and the will to destroy. An Abomination wanted to destroy absolutely everything around it, even if it meant that it would die as well.

And yet, they didn't attack each other.

This would make sense if there were some kind of kinship between the Abominations, but there wasn't anything like that.

So, when there was no social connection between them, why didn't their will to destroy also include other Abominations?

In the end, Shang could only guess that the will to destroy everything was only targeted toward anything created with Mana.

Since other Abominations weren't made of Mana, an Abomination wouldn't feel a desire to destroy them, even when attacked by one.

Over the past ten years, Shang had tried many things on the Abominations.

He had tortured them, suppressed them, killed them, and so on.

And yet, no matter what he did, the Abominations never felt anything other than their typical desire to destroy.

That desire didn't even extend to the being that inflicted pain on them.

Shang could order one Abomination to kill another Abomination very slowly, and the other Abomination would continue attacking the wall as if nothing was happening.

Even Shang could attack an Abomination as much as he wanted. The Abomination would never defend itself or try to kill Shang.

It was like they were mindless, but they couldn't be completely mindless since they actually had a desire.

Abominations were very strange.

up, Shang exited his Isolation Barrier after closing the door of the Isolation Chamber behind him so

back," Linay said from the top of the barrier. "In the past ten years, I have seen three Ancestral Mages, one Archmage, and four Mage

handed a list to Shang, who read

He saw nothing suspicious.

the ore or

the Mage King Realm. The ore inside the Mage King Realm will probably take another 30 or so years, and I am uncertain about the Mage Emperor

took the ring and

quite a bit of

return in 30 years

"Of course," Linay answered.

the Isolation Barrier again and went back into his

continued learning about Abominations while also advancing

mysterious level five Concept of

Shang came out again, and Linay gave him another ring. "These are all the ores of the Mage King Realm you've requested. We have also made some progress on the Mage

the ring and

inside the ring felt so insanely hard and powerful that Shang had

for now, these ores

this, all of Shang's ore troubles up to the peak of the Eighth

huge issue for Shang to find powerful ore since only the most powerful organizations

the problem would return when he reached the Peak Seventh Realm or

negotiations?" Shang

making it difficult. We know that the Land and Sky Empire knows that this is for you, which is why they are making so much trouble. They don't want you

and quicker for you since the Land and Sky Empire would want you to leave. They would probably very

happen,"

"Curious. I was

normal circumstances, I would go to the frontlines right now and cause

joining the frontlines anymore for a specific

"Which is?" Linay asked.

left the frontlines, the commanding Thunder down there wanted to force me to join the frontline against my will, and after I declined, she sent a Mage Lord to forcefully pull me to the frontlines," Shang

issue. Naturally, the Thunder's actions are beyond reproachable, and I will

"No," Shang said.

"No?" Linay asked.