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

what you have," she said. "Don't think that I am extorting you. If you were to pay the actual price, you would need to pay over

intelligently, you should have

Shang sighed.

I will

nodded. "Let's

"To where?" Shang asked.

of the ore,

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

Teacher Niria nodded.

surprised that teacher Niria already had the ore

of them walked back to the main building under

those two already talked to each other a couple

What was going on?

of everyone, and he hoped

Shang was

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

to be fired, she would never start a relationship

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

a couple of suspicions appeared in the

giving Shang a private lesson? Maybe, after taking a look

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

of them entered the room, Shang

SHING!

small, inconspicuous sack appeared

immediately felt Darkness Mana

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

and after he was done, he looked

"Thanks," Shang said.

only nodded before she sat down on Shang's

surprised and confused Shang. "You

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

"That

silence

seemingly looking at a random wall of the room

probably thinking