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

were outnumbered one to ten by

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

the number of normal beasts had dropped to a

even further, they would eventually fill out every

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

longer and longer as they tried to find

no beast other than the worms

had been transformed into a land of

they were barely a meter long and 20

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

there were barely 30,000

and becoming anything else had actually become difficult

the population had to actively go out and kill worms, the

Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine appeared

was when a

a warrior but

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

had seen her superiors fight and hunt just so that she and the others could live in peace

them and make the lives of everyone

she created something that would eliminate the famine once and for

that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms

she managed to create a commodity that the merchants

was viewed very differently from how normal people

one would just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper

were almost

and they were legendary existences that

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

had never shown interest in anything

the Darkness Mage managed to

after a long debate, the

as many corpses as possible

Crystals as possible, and when the merchants showed up the next time, she presented them

at it with a frown and asked her

told him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

these Mana Crystals were horrible and