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

each other, making

present, the number of normal beasts had

they would eventually fill

increased severalfold. They needed to kill every

excursions of the hunters grew longer and longer as they tried

more and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the worms could be found for nearly

been transformed into a land

the Initial Soldier Stage, they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide.

estimated that there were over

barely 30,000 people living in the mortal

else had actually become difficult and even a symbol of status to a

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

the number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine appeared in

was when a hero

a warrior

mortal district, and she had

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

them and make the lives

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

transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms

that, she managed to create a commodity that the

was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed normal

a merchant as a shopkeeper or a

here, merchants were

powerful, and they were legendary

could travel to other towns and cities, which was the

visitors had never shown interest in anything the mortal

Darkness Mage managed

her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district decided to

brought back as many corpses as

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

at it with a frown

him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

these Mana