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

they were outnumbered one to ten by the worms with a

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

all the worms present, the number of

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

every single worm they could find and bring back the small scraps of food they

hunters grew longer and longer as

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

been transformed

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

were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding 100

barely 30,000 people

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

actively go out and kill worms, the few that

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

when a hero

it wasn't a warrior

district, and she had

so that she and

to help them and make the lives of

she created something that

a Spell that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into

to create a commodity that the

inside this town was viewed very differently from how

a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader.

here, merchants were

were legendary existences that

cities, which was

visitors had never shown interest in

now, the Darkness Mage managed to

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

corpses as

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

looked at it with a frown and asked

told him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

Mana Crystals