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

to always

Silence.

it obviously is, but what constitutes

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

a mistake. Just like me, he has plenty of time to

of action, but when the lesson

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

learn how to differentiate between different kinds of threats and their

of thinking, Shang turned around

I need to be mindful of the consequences of my

managed to get out of this mess because an outsider intervened. In the future, I am bound to come into

I have lost control. Even though my actions

and I have to keep in mind that

the building and went into

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

mind had returned to calm with

like

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

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

but Shang shoved it

be

returned and

always remain in

came back and was pushed

himself that he had

but Shang always pushed it

That wasn't him anymore.

in control

his new

would not lose control

would leave the past

the image into

it to ruin