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

'I don't know.'

act like this, they would keep coming for

I also risked

'I don't know.'

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

throwing looks at him with all kinds of emotions. Just like Shang, the students also felt a great variety of

them believed that Shang was a crazy person, but

felt sympathy for Shang had been in similar situations in

knew what he

water under the judging gazes of all the

near the bubble, only looking

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

Shang didn't immediately answer.

know,"

as she continued looking

one might not make it," she said. "His brain

shocked when

He only felt empty.

all of this

academy," the Water Mage

didn't answer for

"No," he answered.

she said. "At this moment,

didn't stop you at the very last moment, he would definitely be dead right now. You would be expelled, and his

as

control of yourself? Is that what you wanted?" she

didn't answer for

know if I have been in control or not. At the time, it felt like

decision in

only looked at

mind went back to that night with

been lenient back then, which made the sacrifices of the beggars

hadn't been ruthless

wouldn't have stopped coming

the Water Mage

This word hit Shang.

previous words hadn't hit him, but this dismissive

that you fear that you might be

you will lose

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

to kill you in here. No one is

kill a 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

"For what?"

that, he looked over at his two beast sacks, which still

she noticed Shang looking at his two

if they took it? They are 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 wouldn't have lost your stuff anyway. You are at 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 on reaching the General

Water Mage actually looked