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.

Shang's method of dealing with small

it right to always deal

Silence.

is, but what

At that point, he had no longer been a

kid that made a mistake. Just like me, he has plenty of time to learn about the consequences

but when the lesson had gone too far,

the end, I can't only look at the person in front of me but also at the surroundings. Killing him would have only had negative consequences

to differentiate between

of thinking, Shang turned around and slowly grabbed his two beast

in the future. I need

I am bound to come into a situation where no one is there to stop me from losing

accept that I have lost control. Even though my actions have appeared correct at that moment, they have not

am not emotionless, and I have to keep in mind

and

two beast sacks down, Shang sat on his bed, only looking at the ground

mind had returned to calm with

was almost like the incident

crushed face beneath him shouting for its mother returned for an

I can't ruin my future with actions committed in

returned, but Shang shoved it away

need to be in

image returned and vanished

to always

and was

himself that he

image always returned, but Shang always

That wasn't him anymore.

in

his new

not lose control

leave the

kept shoving the image into the

allow it