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

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

present, the number of normal beasts had dropped

multiply even further, they would eventually fill out

severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could find and

hunters grew longer and

no beast other

icy wasteland had been transformed

Stage, they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide.

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

there were barely 30,000 people living

else had actually become difficult and even a symbol of status to

to actively go out and kill worms, the

the number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine appeared

was when

wasn't a warrior but

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

so that she and the others could live in peace inside

to help them and make the lives of

her everything into studying, and eventually, she created

transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into

to create a commodity that the

inside this town was viewed very

just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader.

were almost

were legendary existences that could traverse the outside

towns and cities, which was the dream of nearly

had never shown interest in anything the mortal district had

now, the Darkness Mage managed to produce something

about her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal

as possible and handed

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

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

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana