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

were outnumbered one to ten

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

with all the worms present, the number of normal

multiply even further, they

on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every

excursions of the hunters grew longer and longer as

no beast other than

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land

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

were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding

barely 30,000 people living in the

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

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

the number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more

was when a hero

a warrior but

born in this mortal district, and she had been born

had seen her superiors fight and hunt just so that she

had always wanted to help them and make the lives of everyone

put her everything into studying, and eventually, she created

transformed the corpse

managed to create a commodity that the merchants

inside this town was viewed very differently from

would just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader.

here, merchants were

were legendary existences that could traverse

travel to other towns and cities, which was the

had never shown interest in anything the

the Darkness Mage managed to produce

had told everyone about her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district decided to trust

back as many corpses as possible

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

it with a frown

she

The merchant's frown deepened.

and purity of these Mana