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 once and

was alone again, and he looked at

idea what she

up trying to find

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

street, and he saw a great number of wagons and people walking on the street. He

only sigh and

traffic, but the

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

saw that over half of

overflowing with stuff with so many wares

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

that the guards didn't even inspect

a metal detector, but for

gone through his stuff manually. Operating the crystals probably cost a lot of Mana, and it

everyone else, Shang

had to slow down a lot until

this was a

the only actual person stuck in the traffic jam. The other people in the traffic jam all rode carriages and

around and found some people

actually have sidewalks? How did I never notice

looked around and then awkwardly

jam, Shang jogged toward the

filled to

marketplace since teacher Niria had

Shang

Curio Trinket was inside an actual

of the shop, which

Nevertheless, Shang still entered.

amulets, crystals, and other kinds of, well, trinkets. The name sure was

saw no other

the wrong shop," someone shouted from the back of the shop. "We don't trade in

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

sent me,"

back of the shop uttered, and the head of a young man peeked over the corner. "Teacher

told me to contact you," Shang

man furrowed his brows and stood up. After

hair and wore red robes. On top of that, Shang felt a lot of Fire Mana coming

be a Fire Adept,' Shang thought. 'There aren't

shop has a Fire Adept as their

Adept could earn 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

she get another interesting beast?" the Fire

you don't trade in beasts," Shang

that to everyone since it takes too long to explain to them what we are interested in when it