Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang opened his eyes.

'What happened?' he thought with a scrambled mind.

He felt the ground beneath his hands.

'Why am I on the ground?'

Then, the pain hit Shang.

He felt incredible pain coming from his left cheek, and he spit out pieces of blood and bone.

Shang's last memory was of him killing that one student.

So, why was he on the ground now?

Shang slowly sat up and looked at his surroundings.

The surrounding students were looking at him with mixed expressions.

Some of the expressions were filled with disgust.

Some of them were cold.

Some of them were sympathetic.

Then, Shang noticed a big bubble of water levitating around ten meters away from him. The bubble of water was where Shang had just been before waking up here.

He saw a woman with long blue hair in front of the bubble of water, her hands holding a staff with a blue gem on it.

Shang realized that she was probably the Water Mage responsible for healing students.

Shang heard the whispers of some of the students in the surroundings.

They were calling him a maniac.

They were calling him a crazy person.

They were calling him a monster.

Shang didn't react to these whispers.

He had calmed down by now, and a feeling of emptiness had appeared inside his chest.

For a long while, Shang only silently sat on the ground, looking absentmindedly in the distance.

'Did I lose control?' Shang thought.

Everyone around Shang continued whispering, but Shang didn't hear it. To him, the world was silent.

'Did I do the right thing?'

Silence.

'Did I do the right thing?'

…

his head in

'I don't know.'

like this,

I also risked my

'I don't know.'

looked at the bubble of

emotions. Just

person, but a couple of them also felt sympathy for

Shang had

he was

the bubble of water under the

stopped near the bubble,

with a neutral voice. Shang couldn't tell what she thought of his actions. Her voice was completely

Shang didn't immediately answer.

don't know," Shang answered

Mage frowned as she continued looking

one might not make it,"

become shocked when he heard

He only felt empty.

of this

from the academy,"

didn't answer for

"No," he answered.

me," she said. "At this moment, your future

kill him, and if I didn't stop you at the very last moment, he would definitely be dead right now. You would be expelled, and his family would come

remained silent as he

Is that what

didn't answer for a

"I don't know if I have been in control or not. At the time, it

right decision in hindsight?" the

looked at

went back to that night with the

lenient back then, which made

been ruthless enough

coming for me otherwise,"

the Water

This word hit Shang.

hadn't hit him, but this dismissive "so?" had hit

that you might be beaten up by some

you will lose against a group of Middle Soldier

his heart

after you? You can just beat them up whenever someone comes. At some point, they

kill you in here. No one is trying to end

student just because you didn't want to be annoyed anymore. You were not in danger. You were not in danger, but you were still willing to

"For what?"

looked over at his two

Water Mage asked when she noticed Shang

students, and they will be in the academy. You saw their faces, and you could have hunted them until they gave everything back with additional compensation. You know what's in there, and you know how much everything is approximately worth. Just make them buy stuff equivalent to what

the Peak Soldier Stage, and only other Peak Soldier Stage students can stop you, and these students don't care about your meager wealth. These kinds of students are fully focused

time, the Water Mage actually looked at