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

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

and kill each other, making it even more difficult to get a worm with an Ice

number of normal beasts had dropped to a

allowed to multiply even further, they

They needed to kill every single worm they could find and bring back

grew longer and longer

beast other than the worms could be

been transformed into a land of

Soldier Stage worms looked more like larvae. In the Initial Soldier Stage, they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide.

over 500,000 worms in the surrounding 100

30,000

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

population had to actively go out and

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

was when a hero

wasn't a warrior

been born in this mortal district, and

superiors fight and hunt just so that she and

always wanted to help them and make the lives of

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

transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into

create a

viewed very differently from how normal

would just think of a merchant as

here, merchants were almost otherworldly

and they were legendary existences that could traverse the outside

travel to other towns and cities,

these supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything

Darkness Mage managed to produce something

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

as possible

possible, and when

looked at it with a frown and asked her how many

told him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana