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

were to pay the actual price, you would need to pay

you should have received 2,200 gold from

Shang sighed.

will accept," he

nodded.

"To where?" Shang asked.

the effects of the ore, but you can't. If you openly walk around with the ore, you will be

the ore in your possession?" Shang

Teacher Niria nodded.

bit surprised that teacher Niria already had the

to the main building under the gazes of a couple

talked to each other a couple

What was going on?

uncomfortable under the gazes of everyone, and he

was worrying

a relationship with students,

teacher Niria didn't want to be fired, she would never start a relationship with

suspected

entered Shang's room, a couple of

after taking a look at one of the corpses Shang brought back, she took

Shang's obvious problems? After all, Shang had nearly killed a student

the two of them entered the room, Shang pointed

SHING!

a small, inconspicuous sack appeared

immediately felt Darkness Mana coming

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

just that, and after he was

"Thanks," Shang said.

nodded before she sat down on Shang's

confused Shang. "You want to stay?" Shang

you a private lesson. I'm already

nodded. "That makes

sentence, silence returned to the

at a random wall

was probably