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

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

and kill each other, making it even more difficult to

the number of normal beasts

to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out

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

hunters grew longer and longer

no beast other

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land of

were barely a meter long

estimated that there were over 500,000 worms in

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

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

reduced more and more, and a famine appeared

when

it wasn't a warrior but

mortal district, and she

just so that she and the others could live

help them and make the lives of everyone around her

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

corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure

create a commodity that the merchants were interested

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

merchant as

here, merchants were almost otherworldly

and they were legendary existences that could traverse the outside

could travel to other towns and cities,

powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything the mortal district had

the Darkness Mage managed

a long debate, the

brought back as many corpses as possible and handed them

day and night to produce as many Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the merchants showed up the next time, she presented them with the Darkness

at it with a frown

she

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible