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 with a

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

the number of normal beasts had dropped to

to multiply even further, they

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

hunters grew longer and longer

beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the worms could be found for

transformed

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

over 500,000 worms in

barely 30,000 people living in the mortal

default for people, and becoming anything else had actually become

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

more and more,

when a

a warrior

this mortal district, and she

that she

and make the lives of

studying, and eventually, she created something that would eliminate the

Spell that transformed the corpse of the

that, she managed to create a

was viewed very differently

would just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or

here, merchants were

merchants were extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences that could

and cities, which

visitors had never shown

Darkness Mage managed to

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

many corpses as possible and handed them

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

of the merchants looked at it with a frown

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and