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

eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten by the

the worms also seemed to hate and kill each other, making it even more difficult to get a worm with

worms present, the number of

to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out every square meter of the

on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm they could find and bring back

longer and longer as

other than the worms

been transformed

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

estimated that there were over 500,000

barely 30,000 people living in the mortal

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

50% of the population had to actively go out and kill worms, the few that didn't need

of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a

when a

a warrior but a

been born in this mortal district, and she had been

fight and hunt just so that she and the others could

always wanted to help them and make the lives of

she put her everything into studying, and eventually, she created something

a Spell that transformed the corpse

managed to create a commodity that the

merchant inside this town was viewed very

just think of a merchant as a

here, merchants were almost otherworldly

were extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences that could traverse the

other towns and cities, which was the dream of nearly

shown interest in anything the mortal district had

the Darkness Mage managed to produce

had told everyone about her Spell, and after a long debate,

brought back as many corpses as possible

possible, and when the merchants showed up the next time, she presented them with the Darkness

with a frown and asked

told him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and