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.

with small threats had nearly

right to always deal with smaller

Silence.

it obviously is, but what constitutes

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

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

of action, but when the lesson had gone too far, it

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

differentiate between different kinds

a while of thinking, Shang turned around and

in the future. I need to

future, I am bound to come into a

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

keep

and went

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

had returned to

was almost like

returned for an instant, but Shang's

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

image returned, but Shang shoved

to be in control

returned and

to always remain

and was

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but Shang always pushed

That wasn't him anymore.

was in control

his

would not lose control

leave the past

the image into

wouldn't allow it to