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.

again,

Niria nodded

again, and he looked at the corpse

no idea what she was talking

gave up trying to find the reason for

corpse into it. Since he would now sell the corpse to someone else, he

on the street. He had spent

only sigh and entered

traffic, but the traffic still

side at the ridiculous width of the

over half of the road's

not overflowing with stuff with so many wares

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

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

kind of like a metal detector, but for illegal goods, maybe?' he

the night, someone had gone through his stuff manually. Operating the crystals probably cost a lot of Mana, and it probably wasn't worth it to keep them running

else, Shang entered the city without being

Shang had to slow down a lot until

a

noticed that he was the only actual person stuck in the traffic jam. The other people in the traffic

and found some people walking along

actually have sidewalks? How did I

around and then awkwardly moved

from the traffic jam, Shang jogged toward the

like always, the marketplace was filled to the

of the marketplace since teacher Niria

enough, Shang eventually

nearly all the shops, the Curio Trinket was inside an actual

any people in front of the shop, which surprised him a

Nevertheless, Shang still entered.

many rings, amulets, crystals, and other kinds of, well, trinkets.

saw no

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

the back of the shop had noticed the beast sack on Shang's

sent me," Shang

and the head of a young man peeked over the

told me to

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

and wore red robes. On top of that, Shang felt a lot

Adept,' Shang thought. 'There aren't that many Fire Mages

is here. If this shop has a Fire Adept as

a ton of money just by going into the Wasteland and killing any random General Stage beast. So, since this Fire Adept wasn't doing that, it probably meant that he earned more by being a

get another interesting beast?" the Fire Adept asked with a

don't trade in beasts,"

that to everyone since it takes too long to explain to them what we are interested in when it comes to beasts," the Fire Adept explained. "Now, show