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.

method of dealing with small threats had nearly summoned a far bigger

right to always deal

Silence.

is, but what constitutes as dealing with

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

like me, he has plenty of time to learn about

of action, but when the lesson had gone too

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

differentiate between different kinds of threats and

of thinking, Shang turned around and slowly grabbed his two beast

the future. I need to be mindful of

get out of this mess because an outsider intervened. In the future, I am bound to come into a situation where no one is there to

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

not emotionless, and I have to keep

building and went

sat on his bed, only looking

returned to calm with surprising

almost like

image of the crushed face beneath him shouting for its mother returned for an instant, but Shang's mind quickly

need to be more mindful of my future. I can't ruin my future with actions committed in

returned, but Shang shoved it

need to be in control

image returned and vanished

to always remain

image came back and was pushed away

that he had

returned, but Shang

That wasn't him anymore.

in control of

his new

would not lose control

leave the past in the

image into the back

it to