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

the stones was the same for all of them. Apparently, there wasn't anything

from a specific Affinity, but it didn't.

much for the Earth

much do you need? Our prices depend on

merchant could see the sword on Shang's

nodded with a wide grin. "You're in luck! That should be just enough

"How much?" Shang asked.

entire sword, you need around seven units of ore, which would come to 150 gold, but with the bulk purchase discount, it's only

"What about

same amount of the Ice Affinity one comes to 200 gold naturally, but 190 gold

"What about the

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

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

find me here Monday to

and

here is more than broad. From what I can tell, there is stuff from all around the world

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

them. If I were them, I also wouldn't sell it locally but in a vast and rich city like Warrior's Paradise. Most students

one of the teachers where the ore is sourced. Maybe I

for a while,

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 entire day, killing everything they could find and were allowed

lot of money, but the ratio of gold to volume and weight was far lower than things like teeth, fur, and claws. Not many people had Space Rings, which meant that they had

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 left the meat and

of increasing the beast population again. After all, the corpses would quickly be

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

the Exchange Hall, the place where students could exchange