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

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

the worms also seemed to hate and kill each other, making it

worms present, the number of normal beasts had

the worms were allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out every square meter of the

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

and longer as they tried to

beasts, and eventually, no beast other

transformed into a land

they were barely a meter long and 20

mortals estimated that there were over

comparison, there were barely 30,000 people living in the mortal

becoming anything else had actually become difficult and

actively go out and kill worms, the few that didn't

of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and

was when a hero

wasn't a

district, and she had been born

superiors fight and hunt just so that she and the

wanted to help them and make the lives

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

that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into

to create a

was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed

think of a merchant as

merchants were almost otherworldly

extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences

travel to other towns and cities, which was the dream of nearly

powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything the mortal district

Darkness Mage managed to produce

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

corpses as

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

merchants looked at it with a frown

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and