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

were outnumbered one to ten by the worms with a

also seemed to hate and kill each other, making it even more difficult to get

the number of normal

even further, they would eventually fill out every square

pressure on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single

and longer as they tried to

other than the worms could be found for nearly a

had been transformed into a

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

there were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding

were barely 30,000 people living in the mortal

anything else had actually become difficult and even a symbol of status to a

50% of the population had to actively go out and kill worms, the few that didn't need

more and more, and a famine appeared in

was when a hero

a warrior but

this mortal district, and

that she and the others could live in peace inside the

and make the lives of everyone

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

transformed the corpse of the Darkness

create a commodity that the merchants were

very differently from how normal people

a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader.

here, merchants were almost

they were legendary existences that could

to other towns and cities, which was the dream

never shown interest in anything the mortal

Darkness Mage managed to produce something like

a

as possible and handed them

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

merchants looked at it with a frown and asked her how many

told him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely