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

eaten, but they were outnumbered

to hate and kill each other, making it even more difficult to get a worm with an Ice

number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly

further, they would eventually

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

of the hunters grew longer and longer as they

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

transformed into a land

larvae. In the Initial Soldier Stage, they were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide.

estimated that there were over 500,000 worms in the

there were barely 30,000

and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even

to actively go out and kill worms, the few

the number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine appeared in the

was when

a warrior but a

in this mortal district, and she

so that she and the others could

help them and make the

she created something that would eliminate

transformed the corpse

to create a commodity

very differently from

merchant as a shopkeeper or a

merchants were almost

and they were legendary existences that could traverse

and cities, which was the dream of nearly

supremely powerful visitors had never shown

managed to produce something like

had told everyone about her Spell, and after a

as many corpses as

day 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

with a frown

him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely