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 his

'I don't know.'

this, they would

risked my entire

'I don't know.'

absentmindedly stood up and looked at the bubble of water levitating in the

emotions. Just

a crazy person, but a couple of them

had been

knew what he was

bubble of water under the judging

walk, Shang stopped near the bubble, only looking

done?" asked the Water Mage with a neutral voice. Shang couldn't tell what she thought of his actions. Her voice was

Shang didn't immediately answer.

know," Shang answered

frowned as she

one might not make it," she

shocked when he

He only felt empty.

like all of this had

expelled from the academy," the Water

answer

"No," he answered.

up to you. It's up to him and me," she said. "At this moment, your

attempted to 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

silent as he listened

yourself? Is that what

didn't answer for a

know if I have been in

decision in

only looked at

mind went back to that night with

been lenient back then, which made the

ruthless enough

have stopped coming

Water Mage

This word hit Shang.

the previous words hadn't hit him, but

might be beaten up by some students?" the Water

you that weak that you fear that you will lose against a

his heart was

keep going after you? You can just beat them up whenever someone comes. At some point, they will realize that going after you doesn't help them. They never gain anything and

in here. No one is

You were

"For what?"

heard that, he looked over at his two

asked when she noticed

have hunted them until they gave everything back with additional compensation. You know what's in there, and you know

isn't even necessary since you wouldn't have lost your stuff anyway. You are at the Peak Soldier Stage, and only other Peak Soldier Stage students can

Water Mage actually