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.

small threats had nearly

always deal with smaller

Silence.

it obviously is, but what

had no longer been a threat. After all,

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

a lesson was the correct course of action, but when the lesson had gone too far,

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

between different kinds

of thinking, Shang turned around and

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

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

Even though my actions have appeared correct at that moment, they have not been

and I have to keep in

the building and went

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

returned to calm with

like

crushed face beneath him shouting for its mother returned for an instant, but

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

but Shang shoved it

need to be in

returned and

to always remain in

image came back and was

repeating to himself that he

image always returned, but Shang always

That wasn't him anymore.

was in

his new

not lose control

would leave the past in the

kept shoving the image into the

it to ruin