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

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

making it even more difficult to get a worm with an Ice

all the worms present, the number of normal

worms were allowed to multiply even further, they would

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

grew longer and longer as they tried to

beast other than the worms could be found for nearly a

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land

the Initial Soldier Stage, they were barely a meter long and

that there were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding

comparison, there were barely 30,000

a warrior had become the default for people, and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even a

the population had to actively go out and

number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and

was when a

it wasn't a warrior

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

that she and the others could live

to help them and make the

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

that transformed the corpse of

a

merchant inside this town was viewed very differently from how normal

a merchant as a shopkeeper or

were

were legendary existences that could traverse the

cities, which was the dream of nearly

shown interest

Mage managed to produce something like

everyone about her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district decided to

corpses as possible and handed them

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

it with a frown and asked her how many she

told him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were