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

kill each other, making it

present, the number of

allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out every square

kill every single worm they could

and longer as they tried

more and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other

transformed into

Stage, they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters

were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding

there were barely 30,000 people living in

anything else

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

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

was when a hero

it wasn't a

this mortal district, and she had been born with a rare Darkness

and hunt just so that she and the others

help them and make the

eventually, she created something that would eliminate the famine

the corpse of

that, she managed to create a commodity

merchant inside this town was viewed very

merchant as a shopkeeper

were almost

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

other towns and cities, which

visitors had never shown

Darkness Mage managed to produce

after a long debate, the mortal district decided to trust

as many corpses as possible

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

the merchants looked at it with a frown and asked her

him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

these Mana Crystals were horrible