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

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

the worms present, the number of

to multiply even further, they would

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

the hunters grew longer and longer as

beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land of

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

were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding

30,000 people living in

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

had to actively go out and kill worms, the

worms reduced more and more,

was when a hero

a warrior but

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

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

wanted to help them and make the lives of everyone

into studying, and eventually, she created something that would eliminate

had created a Spell that transformed the corpse of the

that, she managed to create a

this town was viewed very differently

merchant

here, merchants were

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

other towns and cities,

never shown interest in anything the mortal

Darkness Mage managed to

had told everyone about her Spell, and after a

as possible and handed them to

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 Darkness Mana

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

him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible