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 and

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

other, making it even more difficult to get a worm with

all the worms present, the number of normal beasts

to multiply even further, they

that, the 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 could

hunters grew longer and longer as they tried to

no beast other than the worms could be

been transformed into a land of

Stage, they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide. In the Peak Soldier Stage, they were about five meters long and 40

were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding 100

barely 30,000 people

becoming anything else had actually become difficult and

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

number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and

was when

it wasn't a warrior but

been born in this mortal district, and she had been born

seen her superiors fight and hunt just so that she and the others

always wanted to help them and

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

the corpse of

that, she managed to create a commodity that the

merchant inside this town was viewed very differently

would just think of a merchant as

merchants were almost

extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences

travel to other towns and cities, which was

course, these supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest

Mage managed to

Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal

many corpses as possible and handed them

worked 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

merchants looked at it with a frown

him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely