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

could be eaten, but they were

making it even more difficult to get a

worms present, the number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly

multiply even further, they would

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

hunters grew longer and longer as they tried

beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the worms

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land of

Soldier Stage, they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide. In the Peak Soldier Stage, they were about five

were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding 100

there were barely 30,000 people living in

becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even a symbol of status

go out and kill

number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and

when a

a warrior but

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

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

and make the

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

the corpse

managed to create a commodity that

merchant inside this town was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed

a merchant

merchants were almost otherworldly

extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences that

cities, which was the dream of nearly

shown interest in anything the mortal district

now, the Darkness Mage managed

about her Spell, and after a

corpses as possible

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

at it with a frown and asked her

told him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

and purity of these Mana Crystals