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

they were outnumbered

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

course, with all the worms present, the number of normal

allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out every square meter of the

of that, the pressure on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they

excursions of the hunters grew longer and longer as they tried

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

wasteland had been transformed into a

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

there were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding 100

barely 30,000 people living in the

becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even

actively go out and kill worms, the

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

was when

wasn't a warrior but a

this mortal district, and she had been born with

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

and make the lives of everyone

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

the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms

managed to create a commodity that

very differently from how normal people viewed

would just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader. That's

here, merchants were almost otherworldly

extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences

other towns and cities, which

never shown

Mage managed to produce something

had told everyone about her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district decided to

as many corpses as possible and

worked day and night to produce as many Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when

merchants looked at it with a frown and asked her how

told him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely