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 summoned a

right to always

Silence.

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 never planned on actually

like me, he has plenty of

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

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

to learn how to differentiate between different

turned around

in the future. I need to be mindful of the consequences of

intervened. In the future, I am bound to come into a situation where no one is there to

have lost control. Even though my actions have appeared correct at that moment, they

to keep

building and went into his

sacks down, Shang sat on his bed,

returned to

was almost like the incident hadn't

of the crushed face beneath him shouting for its mother returned for an instant, but Shang's mind quickly

be more mindful of my future. I can't ruin my

image returned, but Shang

be in control

returned

to always remain

came back and was pushed

to himself that

always returned, but Shang always pushed it

That wasn't him anymore.

was in

was his new

not

leave the

the image into

allow it to ruin