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

worms with the Ice Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered

making it

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

worms were allowed to multiply even further, they would

kill every

longer and

and eventually, no beast other than the worms could be

been transformed into

Soldier Stage worms 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 five meters long and

estimated that there were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding 100

there were barely 30,000 people living in the mortal

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

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

Affinity worms reduced more

was when

a

in this mortal district, and

had seen her superiors fight and hunt just so that she

help them and make the

she

corpse of the Darkness Affinity

to create a commodity that

town was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed normal

merchant as

here, merchants were almost otherworldly

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

other towns and cities,

shown interest in anything the mortal district

Darkness Mage managed to produce

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

back as many corpses as possible and handed them

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

with a frown and asked her how many

told him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

of these Mana