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 and

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

the worms also seemed to hate and kill each other, making it even

with all the worms present, the number of normal beasts had

the worms were allowed to multiply even further, they

kill every single

the hunters grew longer and longer

other than the worms could be found for nearly a

been transformed into a

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

mortals estimated that there were over 500,000 worms in the

barely 30,000 people

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

and

reduced more and more, and a famine appeared in

was when a

wasn't a

and she had been born with a

superiors fight and hunt just so that she and

them and make

her everything into studying, and eventually, she created something that would eliminate the

created a Spell that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure

to create a commodity

viewed very differently from how normal

one would just think of a merchant as a

merchants were almost otherworldly

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

and cities, which was the dream of

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

managed to

a long debate, the mortal district decided

corpses as possible and

Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the merchants

looked at it with a frown and

told him she

The merchant's frown deepened.

and purity of these Mana Crystals were