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?!

lot," Shang

the actual price, you

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

Shang sighed.

I will

nodded.

"To where?" Shang asked.

can't make such a trade in public. I can hide the effects of the ore, but you can't. If you openly walk around with the

mean that you already have the ore

Teacher Niria nodded.

already had the ore with her, but

walked back to the main building under the

talked to each

What was going on?

of everyone, and he hoped that they didn't

Shang was worrying

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

want to be fired, she would never start a

basically no one suspected the

Shang's room, a couple

a private lesson? Maybe, after taking a look

Niria was trying to deal with Shang's obvious problems? After all, Shang had nearly

of them entered the room, Shang pointed at his two big sacks of

SHING!

two sacks vanished, and a small,

Darkness Mana

Light ore and the Darkness ore at separate parts of the room," she

that, and after he was done, he looked

"Thanks," Shang said.

before she sat down on

surprised and confused Shang. "You want to stay?"

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

"That makes

silence returned

at a random wall of the room

probably thinking