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 and

be eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten

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

the number of normal beasts had dropped to a

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

on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could find

hunters grew longer and

killed more and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than

icy wasteland had been transformed into

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

there were over

there were barely 30,000 people living

and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even

and kill worms, the few that didn't need

Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine

when

wasn't a warrior but

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

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

to help them and make the lives of everyone around her

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

the corpse of the Darkness

a

town was viewed very differently from

of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader.

were

powerful, and they were legendary existences that could traverse the outside

could travel to other towns and cities, which was the dream

supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything the

managed

after a long debate, the mortal district decided to

back as many corpses as possible and

as many Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the

it with a frown

told him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible