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

could be eaten, but they were

other, making it even more difficult to get a worm

the worms present, the number of normal

worms were allowed to multiply even further, they

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

the hunters grew longer and longer as they tried

more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than

had been transformed into

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

were over 500,000 worms in

were barely 30,000 people living in the

and becoming anything else had actually become

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

Affinity worms reduced more

was when

wasn't a

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

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

wanted to help them and make the lives of everyone around

and eventually, she created something that would eliminate

the corpse of the

create a commodity that the merchants

viewed very

think of a merchant as a shopkeeper

merchants were almost

and they were legendary existences that could

could travel to other towns and cities, which was

powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything the mortal district

Mage managed

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

corpses as possible and

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

looked at it with a frown and asked her how

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely