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.

Shang's method of dealing with small threats had

it right to always deal with smaller

Silence.

it obviously is, but what constitutes as dealing with

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

kid that made a mistake. Just like me, he has plenty

him a lesson was the correct course of action, but when the lesson

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

need to learn how to differentiate between different kinds of

a while of thinking, Shang turned around and slowly grabbed

future. I need to be

this mess because an outsider intervened. In the future, I am bound

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

keep in mind that anger can cloud my

and went into

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

mind had returned to

like the incident

returned for an instant, but Shang's mind quickly shoved it to the

I can't ruin my future with actions committed in

Shang

to be

image returned

always remain

and

repeating to himself that he

returned, but Shang always

That wasn't him anymore.

was in

was his

would not lose control

the past in the

the image into

allow it to