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

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

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

the number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly low

further, they would eventually fill out every square meter of the

the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could find and bring back the small scraps of food they could

the hunters grew longer and longer

no beast other than the

had been transformed

meter long and 20 centimeters wide. In the Peak Soldier Stage, they

were over

comparison, there were barely 30,000 people living in

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

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

Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine appeared in the

when a

wasn't a warrior

Mage had been born in this mortal district, and she had

had seen her superiors fight and hunt just so that she and the others could live

them and

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

created a Spell that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms

she managed to create a commodity

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

one would just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader. That's

were almost otherworldly

were legendary

other towns and cities,

course, these supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest

now, the Darkness Mage managed to produce something

Spell, and after a

brought back as many corpses as possible and handed

Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the merchants showed up

with a frown and asked her how

she

The merchant's frown deepened.

Mana