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

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

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

the number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly low

even further, they would eventually

that, the pressure on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could

and longer as

more beasts, and eventually, no beast other

been transformed

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

that there were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding

barely 30,000 people living in the

a warrior had become the default for people, and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even

go out and kill worms, the

of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine

when

a

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

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

help them and make the lives of

everything into studying, and eventually, she created

had created a Spell that transformed the corpse

she managed to create a commodity that the merchants were interested

was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed

one would just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper

here, merchants were

powerful, and they were legendary existences

and cities, which was the dream of nearly

had never shown interest

managed to

and after a long debate, the mortal district decided to

back as many corpses as possible and

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

with a

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

and purity of these Mana Crystals were