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

with the Ice Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten by the worms

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

the worms present, the number of normal

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

They needed to kill every single worm they could find and bring back the small scraps of

and longer as

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

transformed into a land of

long and 20 centimeters wide. In the Peak Soldier Stage, they were about five

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

30,000

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

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

number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a

was when

a warrior but a

had been born in this mortal district, and she had

her superiors fight and hunt just so that

help them and make the lives of everyone around

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

the corpse of

she managed to create a commodity that the

this town was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed

a merchant as a shopkeeper or

here, merchants were almost

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

and cities, which was the dream of nearly

shown interest in anything the

managed to produce

after a long debate, the mortal district decided

brought back as many corpses as possible and handed

as possible, and when the

it with a frown and asked her how many she

she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals