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?'

…

head in

'I don't know.'

I didn't act like this,

risked my

'I don't know.'

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

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

that Shang was a crazy person, but

had been in similar situations in

knew what he

slowly walked over to the bubble of water under

near the

voice. Shang couldn't tell what

Shang didn't immediately answer.

know," Shang answered

she continued looking at the

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

shocked when

He only felt empty.

this had nothing to do with

will be expelled from the academy," the Water

answer

"No," he answered.

up to him and me," she said.

last moment, he would definitely be dead right now. You would be expelled, and his family would come for revenge. I don't believe that you can flee from a squad of

silent as

in control of yourself? Is that what

answer for a

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

decision in hindsight?" the Water

looked at

mind went back to

been lenient back then, which

hadn't been ruthless

have stopped coming for me

the Water

This word hit Shang.

previous words hadn't hit him, but

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

that you will lose against a group of Middle Soldier

like his heart was

up whenever someone comes. At some point, they will realize that going after you doesn't help

one is trying to kill you in here. No

annoyed anymore. You were not in danger. You

"For what?"

his two beast sacks, which still

that?" the Water Mage asked when she noticed Shang looking at his two

everything back with additional compensation. You know

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

the Water