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

but they were outnumbered one to ten by the

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

worms present, the number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly

further, they would eventually fill out every

severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could

excursions of the hunters grew longer and

and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the worms could

wasteland had been transformed

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

that there were over 500,000 worms in

there were barely 30,000 people

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

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

the number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and

when a

it wasn't a warrior

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

just so that she and the others could live in peace inside the

always wanted to help them and make the lives of

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

corpse of

she managed to create a

viewed very differently from how normal

of a merchant as

were almost

powerful, and they were legendary existences

other towns and cities, which was the dream

course, these supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything

now, the Darkness Mage managed

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

back as many corpses as possible and handed them to

Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the

merchants looked at it with a frown

told him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely