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

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

each other, making it even more difficult to get a

worms present, the number of normal beasts had dropped

worms were allowed to multiply even further, they

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

the hunters grew longer and longer

no beast other than the worms could

wasteland had been transformed into a

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 five

estimated that there were over 500,000 worms

there were barely 30,000 people living in the

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

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

worms reduced more and more, and a

when a

a warrior

been born in this mortal district, and she had been born with

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

had always wanted to help them and make

and eventually, she created

that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms

that, she managed to create a commodity that the merchants were interested

town was viewed very differently from how normal people

just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper

merchants were

merchants were extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences that

towns and cities, which was the dream of

shown interest in anything

now, the Darkness Mage managed to produce

about her Spell, and after a long debate,

many corpses as

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

merchants looked at it with a frown and asked her how many

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

these Mana Crystals were