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

I am extorting you. If you were to pay the actual price, you

intelligently, you should have received 2,200 gold from

Shang sighed.

I will

nodded. "Let's

"To where?" Shang asked.

in public. I can hide the effects of the ore, but you can't. If you

the ore in

Teacher Niria nodded.

already had the ore with

of them walked back to the main building under the gazes

talked to each other a couple of

What was going on?

under the gazes of everyone, and he hoped that they

Shang was worrying

to get into a relationship with students, and

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

suspected

couple of suspicions appeared

Niria was giving Shang a private lesson? Maybe, after taking a look at one of the corpses Shang brought

Shang's obvious problems? After all,

of them entered the room, Shang pointed at

SHING!

small, inconspicuous sack appeared

felt Darkness Mana

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

after he was done, he looked at

"Thanks," Shang said.

she sat down on Shang's

confused Shang. "You want to stay?"

to appear like I'm giving you a private lesson. I'm already under a lot of scrutiny based on

"That makes

sentence, silence

seemingly looking at a random wall

was probably