Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang reached the market after a bit of walking. Sure enough, there were plenty of stalls here. Some of the stall owners were trying to attract customers by shouting out what great prices they had, but some didn't shout anything.

Shang walked around the market for a bit under the constant barrage of offers. He didn't really listen to all the shouts since no one was shouting about knives.

But then, Shang suddenly halted and turned in a different direction. He had just heard something interesting.

Shang had thought that he was immune to the devious powers of marketing. Sadly, he had been mistaken.

"You said you have Rank Two ore?" Shang asked the smiling merchant.

"Of course! Only the finest ores at Willie's Five Finger Emporium!" the merchant said with a wide grin.

"I'm interested," Shang asked. "Could you show me what you have to offer?"

"Sure thing!" the merchant said as he took out eight different pieces of ore. Obviously, these pieces weren't everything he had to offer, and they only were for display purposes.

Shang looked at the eight pieces of ore.

"We have more to offer, but I only brought out the best for you!" the merchant said with a wide smile. "These are our finest Rank Two ores, seven for all the different Affinities and one for warriors that decided to take on a purer path."

Shang nodded as he looked at the eight stones. "Can I touch them?"

"Sure thing!" the merchant shouted as he pushed the stones forward.

Shang took each stone into his hand one by one and acted like he was inspecting their quality.

In truth, he had no idea about ore.

He was actually just feeling the reaction of his sword.

would vibrate, and Shang could feel

stones was the same for all of them. Apparently, there wasn't anything special about them. They were all equally interesting to

test if his sword preferred materials from a specific Affinity, but it didn't. Everything was the same

the Earth

much do you need? Our prices depend on how much you purchase," the

see the sword on Shang's back. Pulling out the weapon was forbidden, so

grin. "You're in luck! That should

"How much?" Shang asked.

reforge your entire sword, you need around seven units of ore, which would come to 150 gold, but with the bulk purchase

about the Ice Affinity

Affinity is much rarer than Earth Affinity, so it's slightly more expensive. The same amount of the Ice Affinity one comes to 200 gold naturally,

nodded. "What about the one without

gold. Sadly, since they are in higher demand, we can't

just for the moment, I have to decline. When I have the necessary funds, I will come back to take a closer look, assuming I don't find a

"That's okay! You can find

nodded and

Shang thought as he continued looking for a knife. 'The selection of wares here is more than broad. From what I can tell, there is stuff from all around the world here. The students can find everything they will ever need

to Warrior's Paradise offered me ore of similar quality for only 40 gold. Sadly, he had only one kind of Rank Two ore for sale, and there hadn't been another merchant that sold

vast and rich city like Warrior's Paradise. Most students come from prestigious backgrounds, and they're not lacking any money. The merchants can sell their

some gold. Additionally, I should ask one of the teachers where the ore is sourced. Maybe I can

for a while, Shang

Forest just to hunt one single

than things like

they carried the entire corpse, they would need to return to Warrior's Paradise immediately since they simply couldn't carry more. Because of that, most of these kinds of hunters simply removed the most valuable things of their prey and

positive side-effect of increasing the beast population again. After all, the corpses would quickly be consumed by

beasts in the First Realm for two gold. There were no shaving knives on the market since every warrior in the academy simply used their weapons to shave. Of course, a lot of them simply didn't

Shang also went to the Exchange Hall, the place where students could exchange their wares for Contribution Points and