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

Affinity could be eaten, but they were

kill each other, making it

all the worms present, the number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly

were allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually

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

hunters grew longer and longer as they tried to

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

transformed into

looked 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 about

that there were over 500,000

there were barely 30,000 people living in

and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even a symbol of

go out and kill

worms reduced more and more, and

was when a

a warrior

been born in this mortal district, and she

that she and

wanted to help them and make the lives of everyone around her

into studying, and eventually, she created something that would eliminate the famine once and for

transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure

that, she managed to create a commodity that the merchants were interested

very differently from how normal people viewed normal

of a merchant as a

were almost

they were legendary existences that

and cities, which was the dream

visitors had never shown interest in anything the

now, the Darkness Mage managed to produce something like

everyone about her Spell, and after a long debate, the

brought back as many corpses as possible and handed

day and night 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

him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and