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

Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered one

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

present, the number of

to multiply even further, they would eventually

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

the hunters grew longer and longer as they tried to find

and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the worms could be

wasteland had been transformed into a

Stage 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

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

there were barely 30,000 people

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

out and kill worms,

worms reduced more and

when a

a warrior

been born in this mortal district, and she had

superiors fight and hunt just so that she and

them and make the lives of everyone around her

she put her everything into studying, and eventually, she

that transformed the corpse

managed to create a

town was viewed very

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

merchants were almost

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

to other towns and cities,

had never shown interest in anything the mortal district

now, the Darkness Mage managed to produce something

told everyone about her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district decided

brought back as many corpses as possible

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

of the merchants looked at it with a frown and asked her how

she

The merchant's frown deepened.

Mana Crystals were horrible and barely