Sword God in a World of Magic

"How much should I ask for?" Shang asked.

"No less than 2,000 gold," the teacher said.

Shang's eyes widened.

2,000 gold?!

He had 27!

The overpriced ore in the academy was worth only around 200 gold!

"How much would it be worth under normal circumstances?" Shang asked in shock.

"Around 500 gold," the teacher said, "and that's considering its rough condition. A well-preserved corpse can go for 800."

"And the young ones?" Shang asked.

"Around 50 gold," she said. "You can't compare Soldier Stage beasts with General Stage beasts. Why do you think there are so many hunters here? General Stage beasts are worth a lot of money."

Normal Vanishing Snakes were already at the Late Soldier Stage, while the adult variant was at the Initial General Stage. Yet, that already increased the price by more than a matter of ten!

Shang remembered the reason why the academy wanted collateral of five gold for every special exam.

Sure enough, powerful warriors could earn money easily.

"Go to the Curio Trinket in Warrior's Paradise. It's a shop at the edge of the market. They should be interested in that corpse," the teacher said. "Tell them teacher Niria sent you."

That surprised Shang. "Why are you helping me to this degree? This doesn't sound like the normal kind of help."

"I can respect potential and power," teacher Niria said neutrally. "Additionally, you might not know it, but we are connected."

"Connected?" Shang asked.

"When you realize what I mean, and if you are willing to trust me, you can ask me after class, but I won't elaborate on that matter," she said. "You have your way, and I have my way."

This threw Shang for a loop.

He had no idea what she was talking about.

Obviously, she wasn't romantically interested in him. Shang saw absolutely no signs of attraction in teacher Niria's demeanor. On top of that, they had just met.

Either she was crazy, or she knew something that Shang didn't.

'Is the dean not the only other person from Earth?' Shang thought.

"I will go back to the academy," teacher Niria said.

Shang had questions, but he saw in Niria's demeanor that she wasn't interested in talking anymore.

you again,

nodded once

looked at the

no idea what

gave up trying

beast sack and shoved the corpse into it. Since he would now sell the corpse to someone else, he decided

saw a great number of wagons and people walking on the street. He had spent

sigh and entered

slower due to all the traffic, but the traffic still wasn't as bad as

at the ridiculous width of the street. Who even made a road that's an entire

that over half of the road's width

overflowing with stuff with

later, Shang arrived in front of the widely opened gates. Several big crystals were around the gate. They looked like they

noticed that the guards didn't even inspect any of the wares

kind of like a metal detector, but for

someone had gone through his stuff manually. Operating the crystals probably cost a lot of Mana, and it probably wasn't

like everyone else, Shang entered the

became far more crowded, and Shang had to slow down a lot

was a

person stuck in the traffic jam. The other people in the traffic jam all rode carriages and other kinds of

looked around and found some people walking

sidewalks? How did

looked around and then awkwardly moved towards the

traffic jam, Shang jogged

always, the marketplace was filled to

teacher Niria had

enough, Shang eventually found the

to nearly all the shops, the Curio Trinket was inside an actual building and not

see any people in front of the shop,

Nevertheless, Shang still entered.

and other kinds of, well, trinkets. The name

saw no

shop," someone shouted from the back of the shop.

the shop had noticed

Niria sent

person in the back of the shop uttered, and the head of a young man

to contact you," Shang

furrowed his brows and stood up. After that, he came

robes. On top of that, Shang felt a lot of Fire Mana coming from the

Shang thought. 'There aren't that many Fire Mages in

one is here. If this shop has a Fire Adept as their clerk, they probably don't sell cheap

General Stage beast. So, since this Fire Adept wasn't doing

beast?" the Fire Adept asked with a

said you don't trade

to explain to them what we are interested in when it comes to beasts," the