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

risked my

'I don't know.'

and looked at the bubble of water levitating in the

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

person,

sympathy for Shang had been in similar situations in

knew what he was going

to the bubble of water under the judging gazes of all

Shang stopped near the bubble, only looking

Mage with a neutral voice.

Shang didn't immediately answer.

know," Shang answered

as she continued looking at the

fine, but this one might not

Shang didn't become shocked

He only felt empty.

like all of this had

expelled from the academy," the Water Mage said. "Is

didn't answer for

"No," he answered.

It's up to him and me," she said. "At

be dead right now. You would be expelled,

as he listened

control of yourself? Is that what you

answer for a

don't know if I have been in control or not.

it the right decision in hindsight?" the

only looked at the water

to that

been lenient back then, which made the

hadn't been ruthless enough

have stopped coming for

the Water

This word hit Shang.

words hadn't hit him, but

fear that you might be beaten up by some students?" the Water

fear that you will lose

like his heart

up whenever someone comes. At some point, they will realize that going after you doesn't help them. They never gain

is trying to kill you in here. No one is trying

to kill a student just because you didn't want to be annoyed anymore. You were not in danger.

"For what?"

Shang heard that, he looked over at his two beast sacks,

she noticed Shang

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 know how much everything is approximately worth. Just make them buy stuff equivalent to what you have

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

Water Mage actually looked at