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.

were poisonous and

eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten by the worms with a

making it even more difficult to get a worm

all the worms present, the number of

to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out every square

pressure on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could

and longer as they tried to

other than the worms could be found for nearly a hundred

icy wasteland had been transformed

they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide.

there were over 500,000 worms in

30,000 people

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

to actively go out and kill worms, the

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

was when a hero

wasn't a warrior but

and she had

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

always wanted to help them and make the

into studying, and eventually, she created something that would

created a Spell that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity

a commodity that the merchants were

merchant inside this town was viewed very differently from how normal people

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

were almost

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

cities, which

course, these supremely powerful visitors had never shown

Darkness Mage managed to produce something like

had told everyone about her Spell, and after a

many corpses as possible

when the merchants showed up the next time, she presented them

it with a frown and asked her

him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible