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.

of dealing with small threats had nearly

always deal with smaller

Silence.

it obviously is, but what constitutes as

after injuring him heavily. At that point, he had no longer been a threat. After all, he had probably never planned on actually killing

mistake. Just like me, he has plenty of time to learn about the consequences

correct course of action, but when

look at the person in front of me but also at the surroundings. Killing him

how to differentiate between different

thinking, Shang turned around and

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

mess because an outsider intervened. In the future, I am bound to come into a situation where no one is there to stop me

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

and I have to keep in

and went

sat on his bed, only

returned to calm

almost like

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

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

Shang shoved it away

to be in control

returned and vanished

always remain in

came back and was pushed

kept repeating to himself that he had

image always returned, but Shang always

That wasn't him anymore.

was in control of

his new

not lose control

leave the

shoving the image into the

wouldn't allow it to