Sword God in a World of Magic

Time passed.

About ten years after getting the worms, Shang had given away the first True Path Stage warrior to the Temple of Blood.

That particular True Path Stage warrior had been a red-haired man named David, and Shang didn't have any use for him in the town.

David wasn't the most hardworking person, and he also didn't care about teaching people.

He was neither fit for becoming outstanding nor for raising new warriors.

Because of that, Shang told the Temple of Blood that they could take him.

That was the first time Shang had actually been paid for bringing a True Path Stage warrior to the Temple of Blood, and the payment was extremely generous.

Ten Grade Six Mana Crystals…

For a True Path Stage warrior!

The usual bonus for recruiting a High Mage was something like three Grade Five Mana Crystals, but Shang had received over 3,000 times as much!

After getting these ten Grade Six Mana Crystals, Shang could finally buy more Mind Flow Pellets, and he did just that.

As Shang sat in his castle, consuming one Mind Flow Pellet after the other, the world of the mortals had completely transformed.

The number of hunters had shot through the roof.

The worm infestation had proven to be a terrifying danger to the weaker humans.

On their own, the worms weren't directly a danger to the mortal district, but just by existing, they were threatening the mortal district.

How?

Food.

There were two kinds of worms that could be born from the two Abyss Worms.

Either they got a Darkness Affinity or an Ice Affinity.

The threat lay with the worms that had a Darkness Affinity.

poisonous and

the Ice Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten by

also seemed to hate and kill each other, making

the number of normal beasts had dropped to a

worms were allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill

severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could find and bring back

the hunters grew longer and longer as they tried

and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the worms

transformed into a land

meter long and 20 centimeters wide. In the Peak Soldier Stage, they were about five meters

over 500,000 worms in

were barely 30,000 people living

and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even a symbol of status to a

over 50% of the population had to actively go out and kill worms, the few that didn't need to go

the number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a

when a

a

born in this mortal district, and she had been born with a rare Darkness

had seen her superiors fight and hunt just so that

and make the lives of everyone

everything into studying, and eventually, she created

the corpse of

she managed to create a commodity

inside this town was viewed very differently from

think of a merchant as a

here, merchants were almost otherworldly

they were legendary existences that could

other towns and cities, which was the dream of nearly

powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything the mortal district had

Darkness Mage managed to produce something

and after a long debate, the

back as many corpses as

Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the

it with a frown

she

The merchant's frown deepened.

and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely