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

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

making

the worms present, the number of normal beasts

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

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

excursions of the hunters grew longer and longer as they tried to find

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

been transformed into a land of

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

estimated that there were over

comparison, there were barely 30,000 people

and becoming anything else had actually become difficult

over 50% of the population had to actively go out and

of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and

was when

a warrior but a

and she had been born

that she and

wanted to help them and make the lives of

she created something that would eliminate the famine once

corpse of the Darkness Affinity

create a commodity that the

this town was viewed very differently from how normal people viewed normal

one would just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper

merchants were

they were legendary existences that could traverse

other towns and cities, which was

these supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything the

Mage managed to produce

and after a

many corpses as possible and

as many Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the

of the merchants looked at it with a frown and asked

told him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

Mana Crystals were horrible and