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

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

seemed to hate and kill each other, making it even more difficult to get a worm with an Ice

course, with all the worms present, the number of normal

to multiply even further, they

to kill every

and longer as they tried

and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the worms could be found for nearly a hundred

icy wasteland had been transformed into a

meter long

mortals estimated that there were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding 100

30,000 people living in the mortal

become the default for people, and becoming anything else had

population had to actively go out and kill worms, the few that

worms reduced more and more, and a famine appeared in the

when a hero

it wasn't a

mortal district, and she had been born with

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

them and make the

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

transformed the corpse of the

to create a commodity that the merchants were

this town was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed

think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader.

merchants were almost otherworldly

they were legendary

towns and cities, which was the dream of nearly

supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything

now, the Darkness Mage managed to

a long debate, the mortal district decided to trust

corpses as

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

it with a frown and asked her how many she

she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals