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.

small threats had nearly summoned a far bigger

to always

Silence.

but what

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

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

course of action, but when the lesson

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turned around and slowly

the future. I need to be mindful of the consequences

mess because an outsider intervened. In the future, I am bound to come into a situation

have lost control. Even though my actions have appeared correct at that moment, they have not been correct

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

building and went into

down, Shang sat on his bed, only looking

to calm with

was almost like the incident

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

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

image returned, but Shang shoved

need to be in control of

image returned and

need to always remain

back and was pushed away

himself that he had to remain

always returned, but Shang always pushed

That wasn't him anymore.

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it to ruin his