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.

exited his Isolation Barrier after closing the door of the Isolation Chamber behind

ten years,

handed a list to Shang, who read through

He saw nothing suspicious.

progress on the ore or the

inside the Mage King Realm will probably

took the ring

bit of ore in

will return in 30 years then,"

"Of course," Linay answered.

Isolation Barrier again and went

he continued learning about Abominations while also advancing his

certain that learning more about Abominations would help him comprehend the mysterious level five Concept of Entropy. After all, the Abominations were the very personification of

are all the ores of the Mage King Realm you've requested. We have also made some progress on the Mage Emperor ores, but it's much more difficult to get those than expected. The Custodian even said that it was much harder than expected and that

hold of the ring

so insanely hard and powerful that Shang had to take a deep

for now, these ores wouldn't be

of Shang's ore troubles up to the peak of the Eighth Realm had

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

that, this problem had essentially vanished, but Shang expected that the

the negotiations?" Shang

making it difficult. We know that the Land and Sky Empire knows that this is for you,

said that joining the frontlines again and causing as much chaos as possible would make it easier and quicker for you since the Land and Sky Empire would want you to leave. They would probably very quickly accept just so that you stop making trouble for them," Linay

won't happen," Shang

"Curious. I was under the impression that you

would go to the frontlines right now and cause as much

the frontlines anymore for

"Which is?" Linay asked.

to force me to join the frontline against my will, and after I declined, she sent a Mage Lord to forcefully pull

can understand why that is an issue. Naturally, the Thunder's actions are beyond reproachable, and I will make sure that

"No," Shang said.

"No?" Linay asked.