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,

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

Shang sighed.

I will

nodded.

"To where?" Shang asked.

public. I can hide the effects of the ore,

that you already have the ore in

Teacher Niria nodded.

was a bit surprised that teacher Niria already had the ore with her,

them walked back to the main building under

to each other

What was going on?

the gazes of everyone, and he hoped that they didn't misinterpret teacher Niria's

was

into a relationship with

she would never start a

suspected the two of them of hooking

a couple of suspicions appeared

Maybe, after taking a look at

was trying to deal with Shang's obvious problems?

the room, Shang pointed at his two big sacks of

SHING!

small, inconspicuous sack appeared

Darkness Mana coming

and the Darkness ore at separate parts of the room," she said. "You don't

after he was done, he looked at teacher

"Thanks," Shang said.

before she sat down on

and confused Shang. "You want to stay?"

need to appear like I'm giving you a private lesson.

nodded. "That

silence

Niria was seemingly looking at a random wall

was probably thinking about