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.

after closing the door of the Isolation Chamber behind him so that

past ten years, I have seen three Ancestral Mages, one Archmage, and four

handed a list to Shang, who read through

He saw nothing suspicious.

ore or

ores below 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 ring and looked

quite a bit of

nodded. "I will return in 30 years then,"

"Of course," Linay answered.

and went back into his Isolation

continued learning about Abominations while

the mysterious level five

"These 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

took hold of the ring and looked

so insanely hard and powerful that Shang had to

for now, these ores

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

Shang to find powerful ore since only the most powerful organizations

this problem had essentially vanished, but Shang expected that the problem would return when he reached the Peak Seventh

negotiations?"

Land and Sky Empire knows that this

would make it easier and quicker for you since the Land and

happen," Shang

she raised her brows. "Curious. I was under the impression that you want to train with peak

I would go to the

am not joining the frontlines anymore

"Which is?" Linay asked.

commanding Thunder down there wanted to force me to join the frontline against my will, and after I declined, she sent a

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

"No," Shang said.

"No?" Linay asked.