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

it right to always deal with

Silence.

it obviously is, but what constitutes as dealing with

him heavily. At that point, he had no longer been a threat. After all, he had

like me, he has plenty

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

at the person in front of me but also at the surroundings. Killing him would have only had negative

between different kinds of threats

around and slowly grabbed his

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

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

that I have lost control. Even though my actions have appeared correct at that moment,

have to keep in mind that anger can cloud my

entered the building and went

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

mind had returned to calm

like the incident

mother returned for an instant, but

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

Shang

need to be in control of

image returned and

to always remain in

image came back and was pushed

to himself that he had to remain in

returned, but

That wasn't him anymore.

in control of

was his new

not

the past in

kept shoving the image into the back of

wouldn't allow it to ruin his