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.

his sword would vibrate, and Shang could feel excitement

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

wanted to test if his sword preferred materials from a specific Affinity, but it didn't.

for the Earth Affinity one?" Shang

prices depend on how much you purchase,"

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

in luck!

"How much?" Shang asked.

would come to 150 gold, but with the bulk purchase discount, it's only 140 gold!" the

"What about the Ice

slightly more expensive. The same amount of the

nodded. "What about the

one, and it only costs 100 gold. Sadly, since they are in higher demand, we can't

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

didn't lose his smile or professionalism. "That's okay! You can find me

nodded and said his

what I can

prices are ridiculous,' Shang thought. 'That one guy I met in 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

locally but in a vast and rich city like Warrior's Paradise. Most students come from prestigious backgrounds, and

to upgrade my sword, I need to get some gold. Additionally, I should ask one of the teachers where the ore is sourced. Maybe I

walking around the marketplace for a while, Shang

Forest just to hunt one single beast. Most of the time, they went in

quite a 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

carry more. Because of that,

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

were no shaving knives on the market since every warrior in the academy simply used their

place where

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