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

the Ice Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered one to

kill each other, making

number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly low

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 the small scraps

grew longer and longer as they tried

and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other

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

were over

barely 30,000 people living in the

and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even a

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

Ice Affinity worms reduced more and

when a hero

a warrior but a

been born in this mortal district, and she had been born

had seen her superiors fight and hunt just so that she and the others could live in peace

had always wanted to help them and make

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

that transformed the corpse of the Darkness

that, she managed to create a

merchant inside this town was viewed very

would just think of a merchant as a

merchants were almost

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

to other towns and cities, which was the dream

visitors had never shown interest in anything the mortal

Mage managed to produce something

her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal

as possible and

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

merchants looked at it with a frown

told him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

Mana Crystals were