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 threats had nearly summoned a far

right to always deal with

Silence.

is, but what constitutes as dealing

he had no longer been a threat. After all, he had probably never

Just like me, he has plenty of time to learn about the consequences of

was the correct course of action, but when the lesson had gone too far, it has caused problems for

me but also at the

differentiate between different kinds of threats and their

while of thinking, Shang turned around and slowly grabbed

future. I need to be mindful of the consequences of my

because an outsider intervened. In the future, I am bound to come into a situation where no one is there to stop me

control, and I have to accept that I have lost control. Even though my actions have appeared correct at that moment, they

emotionless, and I have to keep

building and went

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

to

was almost like the

him shouting for its mother returned for an instant, but Shang's mind quickly shoved

of my future. I can't ruin my future with actions

returned, but Shang shoved

be

image returned

need to always remain

and was pushed away

that he had to remain

image always returned, but Shang always pushed it

That wasn't him anymore.

in control of

was his new

would not

the past

shoving the image into the back

wouldn't allow it