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

to always deal with smaller

Silence.

obviously is, but what constitutes as dealing

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

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

action, but when the lesson had gone

at the person in front of me but also

between different kinds of

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

attention in the future. I need to be mindful of

to 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

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

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

building and went

on his bed, only

to

almost like the incident

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

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

Shang

to be in

image returned

always remain in

came back and was pushed

that he had to remain

image always returned, but Shang always

That wasn't him anymore.

in control of

was his

not lose control

the past

into the

wouldn't allow it