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?'

…

put his head

'I don't know.'

like this,

risked my

'I don't know.'

looked at the bubble

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

of them believed that Shang was a crazy person, but a couple of them

felt sympathy for Shang had been in similar situations

knew what he

walked over to the bubble of water under the

silent walk, Shang stopped near the bubble, only

voice.

Shang didn't immediately answer.

don't know," Shang answered

she continued

other two are fine, but this one might not make

Shang didn't become shocked when he heard these

He only felt empty.

of this had nothing to do with

be expelled from the academy," the Water Mage said. "Is this what you

didn't answer for

"No," he answered.

it's no longer up to you. It's up to him and me," she said. "At this moment, your future is no longer in your own

the very last moment, he would definitely be dead right now. You would be expelled, and

remained silent as he

control of yourself? Is that what you

answer

don't know," Shang answered. "I don't know if I have been in control or not. At

right decision in hindsight?" the

looked at

back to that night

back then, which

been ruthless

stopped coming for me

the Water Mage

This word hit Shang.

hit him, but this dismissive "so?"

weak that you fear that you might be beaten up by

you that weak that you fear that you will

felt like his

what if they keep going after you? You can just beat them up whenever someone comes. At some point, they will realize that going after

No one is trying to end your career

to 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 willing to

"For what?"

looked over at his two beast sacks, which still

she

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

all of that 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 stop you, and these students don't care about your meager

the first time, the Water