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

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

hate and kill each other, making it

present, the number of normal beasts had dropped to a

to multiply even further, they would eventually

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

longer and longer

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

transformed into a land of

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

over 500,000 worms in the surrounding

there were barely 30,000 people

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

had to actively go out and

Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine

when a

wasn't a warrior

district, and

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

wanted to help them and make the lives of

that, she put her everything into studying, and eventually, she created something that would

the corpse of the

a commodity that

town was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed

just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or

were

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

travel to other towns and cities, which

these supremely powerful visitors had never shown

Darkness Mage managed to produce

her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district decided to

as many corpses as possible and handed them to

as possible, and when the merchants

looked at it with a frown

him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and