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

be eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten by the worms with

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

the number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly

further, they would eventually fill out every square meter

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

and longer as

more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the

icy wasteland had been transformed

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

that there were over 500,000

barely 30,000 people

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

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

reduced more and

was when a hero

it wasn't a warrior but

in this mortal district, and she

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

and make the lives of

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

transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure Darkness

create a commodity that

this town was viewed very differently from how normal

merchant as a shopkeeper or

merchants were almost

extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences that

other towns and cities, which was the dream of nearly

never shown interest in

Mage managed to produce something like

after a long debate, the mortal

back as many corpses as possible and handed them to

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

with a frown and

him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

of these Mana Crystals were horrible and