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

right to always deal

Silence.

is, but what constitutes as

had already been dealt with after injuring him heavily. At that point, he had no longer been a threat. After all, he had probably never planned on

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

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

front of me but

learn how to differentiate between

turned around and slowly grabbed his two beast

attention in the future. I need to be mindful

an outsider intervened. In the future, I am

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

am not emotionless, and I have to keep in mind that anger can cloud

building and went into his

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

had returned to calm

almost like the

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

to be more mindful of my future. I can't ruin my future

image returned, but Shang shoved it away

to be in

image returned and

always

and

repeating to himself that he had

always returned, but Shang

That wasn't him anymore.

in control

his new

would not lose

leave the past

the image into the back of

allow it