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

eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten by the worms

the worms also seemed to hate and kill each other, making it even more

number of normal beasts had dropped to a

were allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill

every single worm they could find and bring back the small scraps of

and longer as they

killed more and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other

had been transformed into

the Initial Soldier Stage, they were barely a meter long and

there were over

barely 30,000 people living in the

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

population had to actively go out and kill worms, the few

the number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and

when

a warrior

been born in this mortal district, and she had been born with a rare Darkness

just so that she and the others could live in peace inside

to help them and make the lives of everyone

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

Spell that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure

a commodity that the

viewed very differently from how normal

just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a

here, merchants were almost otherworldly

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

towns and cities, which was the dream of

supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest in

now, the Darkness Mage managed to produce

her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district

corpses as

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

of the merchants looked at it with a frown and

she

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely