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.

sword would vibrate, and Shang could feel excitement and hunger coming

of them. Apparently, there wasn't anything special about them. They were all equally interesting

test if his sword preferred materials from a specific Affinity, but it

the Earth Affinity one?"

Our prices depend on how much you

said, slightly rotating so that the merchant could see the sword on Shang's back.

merchant looked at the sword and nodded with a wide grin. "You're in luck! That should be just enough to qualify for our lowest bulk purchase

"How much?" Shang asked.

to 150 gold, but with the bulk

"What about the

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

about the one without

only costs 100 gold. Sadly, since they are in higher

nodded again. "Thank you for your time. However, at the moment, I lack the funds to purchase any of your wares. I'm very interested in them, but, just for the moment, I have

but he didn't lose his smile or professionalism. "That's okay! You can find me here Monday to Wednesday. I wish you luck

nodded and said his

a knife. 'The selection of wares here is more than broad. From what I can tell,

towns on the way to Warrior's Paradise offered me ore of similar quality for only 40 gold. Sadly, he had only one

city like Warrior's Paradise. Most students come from prestigious backgrounds, and they're not lacking any money. The merchants can sell their wares without

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

for a while, Shang found a stall

were for skinning beasts. Oftentimes, hunters didn't go into the Wild Forest just to hunt one single beast. Most of the time, they went in there for the

than

Paradise immediately since they simply couldn't carry more. Because of that, most of these kinds of hunters simply removed the most

the beast population again. After all,

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

the place where