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

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

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

number of normal beasts had dropped to

were allowed to multiply even further, they would

kill every single worm they could find and bring back the small

longer and longer as they

worms killed more and more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the worms could be found for nearly a hundred

been transformed into a land

barely a meter long and 20

were over 500,000

comparison, there were barely 30,000 people

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

population had to actively go out and

Ice Affinity worms reduced more and

when a hero

wasn't a warrior but a

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

that she

and make the lives of everyone around

she created something that would

the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure Darkness

create a commodity that the merchants were interested

viewed very differently from how normal people viewed

merchant as a shopkeeper or a

here, merchants were

were

could travel to other towns and cities,

never shown interest in anything the mortal district

now, the Darkness Mage managed

a long

brought back as many corpses as possible and handed

and when the merchants

a frown and

told him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely