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.

dealing with small threats

to always

Silence.

is, but what constitutes as dealing with

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

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

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

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

to learn how to differentiate between different

thinking, Shang turned around and slowly grabbed

in the future. I need to be mindful of

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

though my actions have appeared correct at that moment, they have not been correct in

and I have to keep in mind that anger

building and went into his

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

returned to calm with

was almost like

the crushed face beneath him shouting for its mother returned for an instant, but

to be more mindful of my future. I can't ruin my future with actions committed in the heat of

returned, but Shang shoved it

be in

returned

always remain

image came back and was pushed

to himself that

but Shang always pushed

That wasn't him anymore.

in control

was his

not

the past

the image into the back of

it to ruin