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

the Ice Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten by the worms with a

other, making it even more difficult to get a worm

with all the worms present, the number of normal

allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill

the pressure on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could find and bring back the small scraps of food

excursions of the hunters grew longer and longer as they tried

other than the

had been transformed into

Stage, they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide. In the Peak Soldier Stage, they were about five

over 500,000 worms in the

barely 30,000 people living in the

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

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

reduced more and

was when

wasn't a warrior

in this mortal district, and

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

them and make the lives of everyone around her

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

that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into

a commodity that the

was viewed very differently from how

just think of a merchant as

here, merchants were

and they were legendary existences that could

towns and cities, which

never shown

the Darkness Mage managed to produce something like

told everyone about her Spell, and after a

as possible

night to produce as many Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the merchants showed up the next time, she

at it with a frown and asked her how many she

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

Mana Crystals were horrible and