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

actual price, you would

intelligently, you should have received 2,200 gold from

Shang sighed.

will accept," he

nodded. "Let's

"To where?" Shang asked.

the ore, but you can't. If you openly walk

already have the ore in your possession?" Shang asked in

Teacher Niria nodded.

surprised that teacher Niria already had the ore with her,

back to the main building under the gazes of a

already talked to each other a couple of

What was going on?

felt uncomfortable under the gazes of everyone, and he hoped that

Shang was

was forbidden for teachers to get into a relationship with students,

to be fired, she would never start a relationship

of that, basically no one suspected the two of them of

a couple of suspicions appeared in the

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

trying to deal with Shang's obvious problems? After

the two of them entered the room, Shang pointed at

SHING!

and a small, inconspicuous sack appeared in their

immediately felt Darkness Mana coming

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

did just that, and after he was

"Thanks," Shang said.

she sat down on

and confused Shang. "You want to

private lesson. I'm already under

nodded. "That makes

that sentence, silence returned to

Niria was seemingly looking at a random wall of the room with concentration

was probably thinking