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

the Ice Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered one

making it

of normal beasts had

allowed to multiply even further, they would

hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could find and bring back the small scraps of food they could

grew longer and longer as they tried

and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land

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

there were over 500,000 worms in

were barely 30,000 people living in

else had actually

actively go out and kill

the number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and

was when

a warrior

mortal district, and she had been born with

seen her superiors fight and hunt just so that she and the others could

wanted to help them and make the lives of

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

corpse of

to create a commodity that the merchants were

very differently from how normal people

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

merchants were almost

extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences

towns and cities, which was the

shown

Mage managed to produce something

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

as

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

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

him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

these Mana Crystals were