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 in

'I don't know.'

act like this, they would keep coming for

also risked

'I don't know.'

the bubble of water levitating in

kinds of emotions. Just like Shang, the

person,

sympathy for Shang had been in similar situations in

what he was going

to the bubble of water under the judging gazes of all the other

a silent walk, Shang stopped near the

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

Shang didn't immediately answer.

don't know," Shang

frowned as she continued

fine, but this one might not make it," she said.

shocked when he

He only felt empty.

this had nothing to do with

be expelled from the academy,"

answer for several

"No," he answered.

she said. "At this

very 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

as he

yourself? Is that what you wanted?" she

answer for a

I have been in

in hindsight?" the Water Mage

only looked at

to

had been lenient back then, which

ruthless enough back

stopped coming for me otherwise,"

Water

This word hit Shang.

previous words hadn't hit him, but this dismissive "so?"

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

that you fear that you will lose against a

like his heart

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

to kill you in here. No one

didn't want to be annoyed anymore. You were not in danger.

"For what?"

that, he looked over at his

the Water Mage asked when she noticed Shang looking at his two beast

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

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 wealth. These kinds of

Water Mage actually