Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang only looked at his bed for several seconds.

By now, Shang could feel tiredness envelop his mind. His eyelids were becoming heavy, and he felt his mind become distracted by random thoughts.

The bloodied face returned again.

But this time, Shang didn't push it away.

It felt too troublesome.

When was the last time he had slept?

Shang had no idea, but he guessed that it had been some time during his journey to Warrior's Paradise.

As someone from Earth, Shang was used to sleeping every single day.

Because of that, the last two or three weeks felt like one single long day to Shang.

During the morning, he had arrived in Warrior's Paradise.

During noon, he had trained in the techniques in the booklet.

During the afternoon, he had met his class, and he had gone hunting.

During the evening, Shang had nearly killed three kids.

And during the night, he had gone out to one more hunt.

And now, he was here.

It was one incredibly long day.

So many things had happened.

Shang had unlocked three new parts of his Affinity.

Shang had earned the money to upgrade his weapon.

Shang had killed his first General Stage beast.

Shang had learned a lot about Mages and the Caterpillar Class.

It was so much, and it had all happened over the span of two or three weeks.

Yet, during this moment, Shang felt like everything had happened today.

It felt weird.

Shang slowly pulled off his dirty uniform. He had received several sets of uniforms, but he had only worn two of them.

As Shang's mind slowly went towards the thought of sleeping, out of habit, he started walking over to the bucket.

Then, he held it above his head and tilted it.

Water quickly came out of the bucket, washing all over his body.

When was the last time Shang had showered?

Some time this week? Last week?

The silent and dark room seemingly reflected Shang's emotions.

It felt empty.

It felt like he had hit a low point in his life.

The bloodied face kept watching him.

Shang didn't bother with it.

to watch,

didn't care

It was unimportant.

It was pointless.

was done showering, he sat down on

indent in the spot he had just sat down

indent had appeared when he had remained on that

only looked towards the ground

Silence.

sure what he was thinking

what he

he even

such a minor incident

so weak that he couldn't even get over something

Silence.

until he lay on his bed for the

alien and strange

silently lay on his bed, he

to the time he had run from that one General Stage

like everything around him could kill

nothing inside his room, but

had remained in the wilderness for so long that it became impossible

of beast could suddenly assault him. Because of that, he

he

didn't feel

mind was taut with stress, and it became impossible to just

lying on his bed, one scene

remembered how he had

He remembered his exam.

his run-in with

remembered the

He remembered Astor.

He remembered Sarah.

remembered his first hunt in the Wild

the Storm

the General Stage

survived the sudden attack of another Vanishing Snake just

remembered his run-in with the

with the

The students…

that scene, he felt like

They were just kids.

steal from him, but they

up would have been

needed to go that

first two students. After

But that third student.

image of the

be was only a

severed flesh were seemingly swimming around

kept popping up as

"I'm sorry."

"Help."

"Mommy."

echoed throughout

had been in deep terror, and he had even shouted

in full, Shang felt

He felt horrible.

He felt guilty.

Shang didn't want to feel these

this world, cruelty was

were akin

to survive and become powerful in this world, he would need to kill off his empathy and

had to get

his feelings didn't