Sword God in a World of Magic

"I am the world's hand?" Shang asked in surprise.

"Not literally," teacher Niria said. "That would make no sense. I was only trying to make sense of everything."

"Does the dean know?" teacher Niria suddenly asked.

"Yes," Shang said. "He is the one that allowed me to unearth my Affinities in the first place."

"That makes sense," teacher Niria said. "From what I can tell, you have absorbed four different Pure Mana Sources, and I don't think you have the money to buy even one of them. Additionally, Light and Darkness Mana Sources are very rare but also relatively worthless. There simply is no demand for them, which means that whoever happens to carry some of them with them doesn't even remotely have to worry about Commander Stage beasts."

"What are his thoughts?" teacher Niria asked.

At that moment, Shang felt a bit uncertain.

Yes, he had decided to trust teacher Niria, but he also hadn't forgotten how the dean had acted.

The dean valued honesty greatly, but he also didn't betray his friend, Duke Whirlwind.

"I don't want to say," Shang said with a sigh. "I don't think it's my place to say what the dean thinks."

Teacher Niria nodded. "That's a good quality to have. If you had told me what the dean has said, my trust in you would have diminished."

"Anyway," teacher Niria said as she walked closer to Shang. "You said you needed two pieces of Middle Rank Two Darkness Affinity ore, correct?"

Shang nodded. "Yes. As you have seen, I have four Affinities, and I want to keep everything balanced. My sword needs seven pieces of ore, which means I need two of each."

"And how do you plan on creating that weapon?" teacher Niria asked. "I don't believe that any blacksmith would know how to fuse four different kinds of Pure Affinity ore together. Additionally, creating weapons out of Darkness and Light Affinity ore is already something nearly no blacksmith can do."

"I have a solution to that, but I can't tell you," Shang said.

Teacher Niria only looked at Shang for a bit.

"Fine," she said. "1,000 gold per unit."

Shang took a deep breath.

1,000 gold?!

a lot," Shang

that I am extorting you. If you were to pay the actual price, you would need to pay over

acted intelligently, you should have received 2,200 gold from

Shang sighed.

you. I will accept,"

nodded. "Let's

"To where?" Shang asked.

public. I can hide the effects of the ore, but you can't. If you openly walk around with the ore, you will be caught sooner or

that mean that you already have the ore in

Teacher Niria nodded.

that teacher Niria already had the ore with

back to the main building under the gazes of a

each

What was going on?

of everyone, and he hoped that

was worrying

into a relationship with

fired, she would

that, basically no one suspected

room, a couple of suspicions appeared in

Shang a private lesson? Maybe, after taking a look at one of the

deal with Shang's obvious problems? After all, Shang

Shang pointed at his two big sacks

SHING!

sacks vanished, and a small, inconspicuous sack

immediately felt Darkness Mana

parts of the room," she said. "You don't want them to consume

was done, he looked at

"Thanks," Shang said.

nodded before she sat down

confused Shang. "You

need to appear like I'm giving you a private lesson. I'm already under a lot of scrutiny based on my Affinity, and I can't be

"That makes

silence returned to the

was seemingly looking at a random wall of the room with

probably