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.

vibrate, and Shang could feel excitement and hunger coming from

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

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

for the Earth Affinity one?"

do you need? Our prices depend on how

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! That should be just enough to qualify for our lowest

"How much?" Shang asked.

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

about the Ice

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

"What about

are

any of your wares. I'm very interested in them, but, just for the moment, I have to

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

and

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

of similar quality for only 40 gold. Sadly, he had only one kind of Rank Two

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 come from prestigious

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

marketplace for a while, Shang found a stall

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

far lower than things like teeth, fur, and claws. Not many people had Space Rings, which meant that they had to carry their prey with

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

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

were no shaving knives on the market since every warrior in the academy simply used their weapons to shave.

went to the Exchange Hall, the place where students could exchange their wares for Contribution