Sword God in a World of Magic

955 Chapter 955 — Instinct and Consciousness

Shang kept experimenting on different Abomination Kings for over 2,000 years.

Sometimes, he would change something in the Abomination King that would effectively cripple them, making any further experiments lack any validity.

But other times, Shang also managed to improve the intelligence of the Abomination King.

One of them even managed to learn to speak.

Over many experiments, Shang managed to comprehend what allowed Abominations to become intelligent, and he could change a new Abomination King into an intelligent one very quickly.

Sadly, there was one thing that Shang was unable to fix.

Their pure hatred for Mana.

No matter what Shang did, he couldn't stop the Abomination Kings' wild hatred for anything related to Mana.

In the end, he could only accept that hatred for Mana came naturally to beings made of Entropy.

In a certain way, Mana also abhorred Entropy. After all, every human and beast felt a feeling of disgust and hatred towards Abominations. Even if they didn't know what an Abomination was.

It was probably the fundamental fear of one's antithesis. The sheer existence of the other thing put oneself in tremendous danger. The Mana that didn't fear Entropy didn't exist anymore since it had already vanished to Entropy, leaving only the Mana that hated Entropy.

Everything that hadn't minded the other side had already combined, leaving only the careful ones behind.

It was kind of like life.

People and animals wanted to survive because they were alive, and they were alive because they wanted to survive.

After all, anything that didn't fear death was dead already.

If animals didn't fear death, they would die before they could reproduce, exterminating their kind.

If any species didn't mind death, they wouldn't exist, leaving only the ones that minded death very much.

Why did they have issues with death?

There was no reason.

And Mana and Entropy seemed to work on the same principle.

However, that was a bit of an issue for Shang.

Shang was planning on altering his own soul but filling it with more Entropy would change his mind to despising Mana.

mind was rather balanced. He still saw himself as a

didn't have a hatred for the fundamental existence of Mana, and he had also become

added

start to align more

of the

But then what?

would be nothing

power

could only exist if there

there are also weaker and stronger

if Aterium vanishes, the Abominations should still exist, which means

this for

be so bad

looked at his surroundings for the first time

in the middle of the Isolation

Eternal Ocean below

The fish.

The birds.

The sun.

The sky.

of

Black.

That was it.

Abominations simply lived in

Mana's static, stable, and malleable form, Entropy couldn't assume

One was clay.

The other was air.

but the changes were of no consequence since everything

changed, but in another way, nothing

Entropy order or

was a matter of

important thing was, what was it to

Irrelevant.

Abstract.

with gaining power in a void of irrelevance with an occasional conscious being fighting

lucky disposition where I enjoy using the same sword slash for years on

desires and my instinct. My consciousness knows that I have to go against my instincts to gain

might hate being around Mana, but I will know that it is for the better not to get

CRKSH!

in the

in the Abomination King's eyes, and its eyes moved from side to side in

you?"