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

eaten, but they were outnumbered one

hate and kill each other, making it

with all the worms present, the number of normal beasts

worms were allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out every square

severalfold. They needed to kill every single

hunters grew longer and longer as they tried to find

eventually, no beast other than the

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land

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

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

barely 30,000 people

and becoming anything else

had to actively go out and kill worms, the few that didn't need to

worms reduced more and more, and

when a hero

it wasn't a warrior but a

in this mortal district, and she had been born with

so that she and the others could live

had always wanted to help them and make the lives

put her everything into studying, and eventually, she created something that would eliminate the famine once

corpse

managed to create a commodity that the

this town was viewed very differently from how

merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader.

were almost otherworldly

they were legendary existences that could traverse the

towns and cities,

had never shown interest in anything the mortal

now, the Darkness Mage managed to produce something like

her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district decided

many corpses as

to produce as many Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the merchants showed

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

told him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

Mana Crystals were horrible and