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

the actual price, you would need to pay over 10,000 gold. I am essentially gifting the

you should have received 2,200

Shang sighed.

will accept,"

Niria nodded. "Let's

"To where?" Shang asked.

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

that mean that you already have the ore in your possession?" Shang asked in

Teacher Niria nodded.

bit surprised that teacher Niria already had

to the main building under the gazes of a couple of

talked to each other

What was going on?

uncomfortable under the gazes of everyone, and

Shang was worrying over

into a

fired, she would never

basically no one suspected the two of

a couple

look at one of the corpses Shang brought back, she took him under her

trying to deal with Shang's obvious problems? After all, Shang had nearly killed a student

of them entered the room, Shang pointed at his

SHING!

and a small, inconspicuous sack appeared in

felt Darkness Mana

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

just that, and after he was done,

"Thanks," Shang said.

she sat down on

Shang. "You want to stay?" Shang

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

"That

sentence, silence returned to

looking at a random wall of the room

was probably