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.

today, Shang's method of dealing with small threats had

it right to always deal with smaller

Silence.

is, but what constitutes as dealing with a

threat had already been dealt with after injuring him heavily. At that point, he had no longer been a threat. After

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

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

person in front of me but also at

to learn how to differentiate between different kinds of

thinking, Shang turned around

I

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

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

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

entered the building and went into his

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

mind had returned to calm with

almost like

of the crushed face beneath him shouting 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 with actions

image returned, but Shang shoved it away

be in

returned and

to always remain

and was pushed away

to himself that he had to remain in

always returned, but Shang always pushed it

That wasn't him anymore.

was in control

was his

would not

would leave the

into the back of

wouldn't allow it