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 and

but they were outnumbered one to ten by the

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

the worms present, the number of normal beasts had

allowed to multiply even further, they

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

longer and longer as they

other than the worms could be found for nearly a

wasteland had been transformed into a land of

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

over 500,000 worms in

were barely 30,000 people living

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

go out and kill worms, the few

Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine appeared

was when a

it wasn't a warrior but a

been born in this mortal district, and she had been born with a rare Darkness

that she and the others

them and make the lives of

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

Spell that transformed the corpse

create a commodity that the merchants were interested

very differently

just think of a merchant

here, merchants were almost otherworldly

merchants were extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences that could traverse the outside

to other towns and cities, which

never shown interest in anything the mortal district had

managed

her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal

brought back as many corpses as

possible, and when the merchants showed up the next time, she presented them with

of the merchants looked at it with a frown and asked her

told him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

and purity of these Mana