The Celebration Banquet and the Beginning of an Affair (4)

Mithril.

Of the metals traded on the market, it was the hardest and most expensive.

In terms of price, you couldn't buy it even if you offered five times its weight in pure gold.

‘Holy shit.’

I pulled back the cloth in my hand and nearly had a fit.

To someone without a discerning eye, the silver-colored lump inside might look like iron. If I hadn't awakened my ability to see mana, I might not have recognized it either.

No, honestly, I didn't know until I touched it.

Before it touched my skin, no mana seeped out of the mithril at all.

They say mithril clings tightly to mana, keeping it from leaking out, but today was the first time I'd seen it for myself.

A rare metal with high mana affinity...