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 excitement and hunger coming

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

wanted to test if his sword preferred materials from a specific Affinity,

for the Earth

much do you need? Our prices depend on how much

this sword," Shang said, slightly rotating so that the merchant could see the sword on Shang's back. Pulling out the weapon was forbidden, so Shang had

the sword and nodded with a wide grin. "You're in luck!

"How much?" Shang asked.

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

about the Ice Affinity

slightly more expensive. The same amount of the Ice Affinity one

nodded. "What about

one, and it only costs 100 gold. Sadly, since they are in higher demand, we can't offer you a bulk purchase discount," the merchant

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 to decline. When I have the

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

and said

more than broad. From what I can tell, there is stuff from all around the world here. The students can find everything they

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 kind of Rank Two ore for sale,

but in a 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 wares without competing in prices in the

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

marketplace for a while, Shang

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 to

meat could be sold for quite a lot of money, but the ratio of gold to volume and weight was far lower than things like

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

beast population again. After all, the corpses would quickly be consumed by the

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 shave at

Hall, the place where students could exchange their