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

be eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten by

and kill each other, making it even more difficult to get a worm with

the worms present, the number of normal beasts had dropped to

allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out every square meter of the

that, the pressure on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could find and bring back the small scraps

excursions of the hunters grew longer and longer as they

more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land

Soldier Stage worms looked more like larvae. In the Initial Soldier Stage, they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide. In the Peak Soldier Stage, they were about five

there were over 500,000

30,000 people living in the mortal

the default for people, and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even a symbol of status

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

more and more, and a famine appeared in the

was when a hero

it wasn't a warrior

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

fight and hunt just so that she and the others could live

wanted to help them and

she put her everything into studying, and eventually, she created something that would eliminate the

the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure Darkness

that, she managed to create a commodity that the merchants were

viewed very differently from how normal people viewed normal

just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader.

merchants were

were extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences that could traverse the outside

to other towns and cities, which

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

Darkness Mage managed to produce

everyone about her Spell, and after a long debate, the

corpses as

produce as many Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the merchants

the merchants looked at it with a

told him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

and purity of these Mana Crystals were