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

Ice Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered

also seemed to hate and kill each other, making it even more difficult

present, the number of normal beasts

further, they would eventually fill out every square meter of

They needed to kill every single worm they could find and bring back the small scraps of food they could

grew longer and

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

transformed into

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 meters long and 40

over 500,000 worms in the surrounding 100

there were barely 30,000

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

of the population had to actively go out and kill

worms reduced more and more,

when a hero

wasn't a warrior

mortal district, and she

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

them and make the lives of everyone around her

eventually, she created something that would eliminate the famine

a Spell that transformed the corpse of the

managed to create a commodity that

this town was viewed very differently

a merchant as a

merchants were almost

and they were legendary

travel to other towns and cities,

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

the Darkness Mage managed

after a long debate, the mortal

as possible and handed them

Crystals as possible, and when the merchants showed up the next time, she presented them with the

the merchants looked at it with a frown and asked her how

him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

these Mana Crystals were horrible