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 worms with a

making it even more difficult to get a worm with

with all the worms present, the number of normal beasts had

worms were allowed to multiply even further, they would

every single worm they could find and bring back the small

excursions of the hunters grew longer and longer as they tried to

eventually, no beast other than the worms could be

icy wasteland had been transformed into

worms looked more 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

that there were over 500,000 worms

were barely 30,000 people living in the

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

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

of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a

was when

wasn't a warrior but a

born in this mortal district, and she had

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

and make the lives

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

created a Spell that transformed the corpse of

managed to create a commodity that

was viewed very

a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader. That's

were almost otherworldly

extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences that could traverse

other towns and cities, which was the dream

powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything the mortal district

managed

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

as possible and

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

of the merchants looked at it with a frown and asked

she

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals were