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.

balanced. He still saw himself as a

fundamental existence of Mana, and

he added

to align

destruction of the entire

But then what?

be nothing

power

only exist if there were weaker

are also weaker and stronger

should still exist, which means

this for quite a

be so bad for Aterium

for the first time in a long

in the

Eternal Ocean

The fish.

The birds.

The sun.

The sky.

of

Black.

That was it.

what Shang had seen, the Abominations simply lived in an endless space of

stable, and malleable form, Entropy couldn't assume forms

One was clay.

The other was air.

changed continuously, but the changes were of no consequence since everything evened out to

way, everything changed, but in another

order

a matter of

was, what was

Irrelevant.

Abstract.

in a void

thought. 'I dislike working and training just like anyone else. I don't have some magical and lucky disposition where I enjoy using the same sword slash for years on end. It's

knows that I have to

a hatred for Mana, my consciousness should be able to keep it in check. I might hate being around Mana, but

CRKSH!

in the

moment later, clarity appeared in the Abomination King's eyes, and

you?"