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

always deal

Silence.

but what constitutes

he had no longer been a threat. After all, he had probably never planned on actually

me, he has plenty of time to learn about

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

but also at the surroundings. Killing him would

between different kinds of

of thinking, Shang turned around and

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

managed to get out of this mess because an outsider intervened. In the future, I am

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

not emotionless, and I have to keep in mind

and went into his

the two beast sacks down, Shang sat on his bed, only looking at

returned to calm with surprising

like the incident hadn't

its mother returned for an

can't ruin my future with actions

returned, but Shang shoved

be

returned and

need to always remain

image came back and was pushed away

himself that he had to remain

image always returned, but

That wasn't him anymore.

in control of

his new

not

would leave the

shoving the image into

wouldn't allow it