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

were outnumbered one to ten

also seemed to hate and kill each other, making

course, with all the worms present, the number of

they would

severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could

hunters grew longer and longer

and eventually, no beast other than the worms could be found for nearly a hundred

transformed into a land of

long and 20 centimeters wide. In the Peak

were over 500,000 worms in the

barely 30,000 people living in

now, becoming a warrior had become the default for people, and becoming anything else

50% of the population had to actively go out and kill worms, the

number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine appeared in the

when

a warrior but

mortal district, and she had

seen her superiors fight and hunt just so that she and

wanted to help them and make the lives of

studying, and eventually, she created

transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure

that, she managed to create a

this town was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed normal

just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader. That's

here, merchants were almost

they were legendary existences that could

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

these supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest in

managed to produce

and after a long debate, the mortal

corpses 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,

at it with a frown

him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible