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

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

hate and kill each other, making it even more difficult

present, the number of normal beasts had dropped to a

multiply even further, they would eventually fill out every square meter of

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

excursions of the hunters grew longer and

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

wasteland had been transformed into

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

over 500,000 worms in the surrounding 100

30,000 people living in the mortal

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

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

worms reduced more and more, and

was when a hero

wasn't a warrior but

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

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

always wanted to help them and make the lives of everyone around her

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

a Spell that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure Darkness

managed to create a commodity that

inside this town was viewed very differently from how normal people

would just think of a merchant

here, merchants were almost

extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences

travel to other towns and cities, which

supremely powerful visitors had never shown

the Darkness Mage managed to

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

back as many corpses as possible

Crystals as possible, and when

at it with a frown and asked her

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely