Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang sat down in one of many chairs inside one of the rooms on the third floor of the main building.

Several other students were with Shang in the room, and a couple of them threw worried glances at him while whispering to their neighbors, who then also shot a look at Shang.

Shang tried to ignore it, but it was way too obvious what they were talking about.

All the students in the room were 16 and 17 years old, except for Shang.

A couple of minutes of whispering later, the teacher entered.

She looked to be in her late twenties, and she had long black hair, her eyes detached and distant.

She inspected everyone present, and her gaze lingered a bit longer on Shang.

"Let's start class," she announced.

Everyone quieted down.

Then, Teacher Niria began her lesson.

This afternoon, she was teaching the class about the northeastern forest.

She talked about Swamp Millipedes and Vanishing Snakes, but most of all, she talked about the Empress Cobra Zone. The northeastern forest was adjacent to the Empress Cobra Zone, and there was a high likelihood that the students would find some beasts from there in the northeastern forest.

She talked about the climate and how the beasts behaved.

And that was already it for the lesson.

There was so much to learn about the northeastern forest that it couldn't be covered in just one lesson. Today, she had only talked about the special things one could expect to come across in the northeastern forest. The local flora and fauna would be taught in different lessons.

After the lesson was finished, several students walked up to teacher Niria to ask questions, which she very quickly answered with the least words possible.

Several minutes later, all the students had left.

That was when Shang walked up to her.

"Do you have a question?" teacher Niria asked with practiced ease.

"My question would be if it is safe for me to speak right now," Shang said.

Teacher Niria's eyes narrowed ever so slightly. "Follow me," she ordered.

Shang and Teacher Niria left the room and then the building.

After walking towards the north, past nearly all of the training fields, teacher Niria stopped. At the moment, Shang and teacher Niria were directly beneath the northwestern wall.

"Ask," teacher Niria ordered. "No one can hear us."

took a

This was it.

hadn't made a

a Darkness Affinity,"

teacher Niria directly asked, like she

are connected," Shang

so?" she asked

have

makes you think

said before he started rattling down his

you and I met for the first time back then. That means that the corpse told you something about

Shang continue without

far more than is to be expected of a

the only reason I have found out. The clerk in the Curio Trinket also made

frowned. "What did he say?"

inspected the corpse, he said, of his own

I have killed the snake. However, how can he be so sure that you killed

ones in the entire

access to call upon the progeny of the Storm

and the killing blow were not the giveaways, that only leaves one thing. The

bit of weakened flesh near its back. An experienced eye will notice it.

why did you want to talk to me? Did you only want me to

a deep

your help," he

"For what?"

Darkness Affinity ore,"

much?" teacher Niria

"Two units."

"Impossible," she answered.

threw Shang for

that she was the person

the clerk had

top of that, it would

that sentence, the clerk had told Shang that he needed

he had to keep

telling Shang that

He could have simply said that the

only the dean could

Darkness ore from the teacher, and he

dean wasn't Shang's enemy, but if he were, Shang

short, the clerk had indirectly told Shang that there was a teacher in the school that was

is it impossible?" Shang

haven't shown me the basic amount of respect required