Sword God in a World of Magic

For a while, Shang only remained on the spot, thinking.

'Don't let my past ruin my future,' Shang repeated to himself in his mind.

To Shang, these words had a profound meaning.

When he thought about these words, the night with the bandits returned.

'My past.'

Shang felt like the Water Mage had been right in basically everything she said.

But at the same time, Shang also felt that her words were a bit too simple.

'Ruthlessness is still a necessity in this world. Not dealing with threats might make them even bigger in the future.'

'Leaving the battlefield on the battlefield, huh?'

'I'm not sure if there is a place that's not a battlefield in this world.'

'The teachers say that the academy is safe, but is it truly safe? Have there been no instances of students dying to other students?'

'I don't believe that.'

Shang looked at the place where the unconscious student had just been.

'However, was he truly a threat?'

'Have I not risked the threat becoming an even bigger one by trying to get rid of this small threat? Before my actions, he might have been the only threat, and his threat had been minuscule.'

'However, what about his family? If their child had received some permanent damage, wouldn't they search for revenge? Wouldn't have this little threat turned into a bigger threat then?'

For a while, Shang tried to wrap his head around his new understanding.

After the night of the bandits, Shang's mind had focused on dealing with all the small threats to stop bigger threats from appearing.

dealing with small threats had

right to always deal with

Silence.

but what constitutes as

been dealt with after injuring him heavily. At that point, he had no longer been a threat. After all,

mistake. Just like me, he has plenty of time to

him a lesson was the correct course of action, but when the lesson had

at the person in front of me but also at

how to differentiate between different kinds

Shang turned around and slowly grabbed his two beast

more attention in the future. I need to be mindful of the consequences

an outsider intervened. In the future, I am bound to come into a situation where no

I have lost control. Even though my actions

am not emotionless, and I have to keep in

and went into his

putting the two beast sacks down, Shang sat on

had returned to calm

almost like

returned for an instant, but Shang's mind quickly shoved it

need to be more mindful of my future. I can't ruin my future with actions committed in the heat of

but Shang shoved it

need to be in

image returned and

need to always

image came back and

to himself that he had to remain

image always returned, but Shang always pushed it

That wasn't him anymore.

was in

was his new

would not lose

the past

into

it to ruin his