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 summoned

it right to always deal with

Silence.

is, but what constitutes as dealing

threat 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 actually killing

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

the correct course of action, but when the lesson had gone too far, it has

front of me but also at

learn how to differentiate between different kinds of threats

turned around

I need to

this mess because an outsider intervened. In the future, I am bound to come

control, and I have to accept that I have lost control. Even though my actions

have to keep in mind that anger can cloud

and went

the two beast sacks down, Shang sat on his bed,

mind had returned to calm

like the

its mother returned for

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

but Shang shoved it

be

image returned and

need to always remain in

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That wasn't him anymore.

was in control of

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would not lose

leave the past in

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