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.

sword would vibrate, and Shang could feel excitement and hunger coming from

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

materials from a specific Affinity, but it didn't. Everything

Earth Affinity one?" Shang

depend on how much you purchase," the merchant

that the merchant could see the sword on Shang's back. Pulling out the weapon was forbidden, so Shang had to show his sword this

looked at the sword and nodded with a wide grin. "You're in

"How much?" Shang asked.

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

"What about the Ice Affinity

same amount of the Ice Affinity one comes to 200

"What about

are in higher demand, we can't offer you

of your wares. I'm very interested in them, but, just for the moment, I have to decline. When I have the necessary funds, I will come

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

and said

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

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, and there hadn't been

and rich city like Warrior's Paradise.

I 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 I can get it

for a while, Shang found a stall

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

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

couldn't carry more. Because of that, most of these kinds of hunters simply removed the most valuable things of their prey and left the meat and

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

the market since every warrior in the academy simply used their weapons to shave. Of course, a

getting the knife, Shang also went to the Exchange Hall, the place where students could exchange their wares for Contribution Points and vice