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.

a stone, his sword would vibrate,

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

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

much for the Earth Affinity

Our prices depend on how much you

so that the merchant could see the sword on Shang's back. Pulling out the weapon was

at the sword and nodded with a wide grin. "You're in luck! That should be just enough to qualify

"How much?" Shang asked.

of ore, which would come to 150

nodded. "What about the Ice Affinity

amount of the Ice Affinity one comes to 200 gold naturally, but 190 gold for you," the merchant

"What about the one

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

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

smile or professionalism. "That's okay! You can find me here Monday

nodded and

broad. From what I can tell,

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 kind

it locally 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

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

while, Shang

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,

sold for 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

couldn't carry more. Because of that, most of these kinds of hunters simply removed the most valuable things

side-effect of increasing the beast population again. After all, the corpses would

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

Hall, the place where students