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.

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

of them. Apparently, there wasn't anything special

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

Earth Affinity one?"

Our prices depend on how much you purchase," the

reforge this sword," Shang said, slightly rotating so that the merchant could see the sword on Shang's

grin. "You're in luck! That should be just

"How much?" Shang asked.

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

nodded. "What about the

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

about the one

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

in them, but, just for the moment,

You can find me here Monday

and said

the tradeoff, huh?' Shang thought as he continued looking for a knife. 'The selection of wares here is more than broad. From what I can tell, there is stuff from all around the world here. The

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

Paradise. Most students come from prestigious backgrounds, and they're not lacking any money.

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

around the marketplace for a while, Shang

hunt one single beast. Most of the time, they went

but the ratio of gold to volume and weight was far lower than things like teeth,

corpse, they would need to return to Warrior's Paradise immediately since they simply couldn't carry more. Because of that, most of these kinds of hunters simply removed the most valuable things of

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

suitable for all beasts in the First Realm for two gold. There were no shaving knives on the market since every warrior in the

the Exchange Hall, the place where students