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 and

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

seemed to hate and kill each other, making it even

present, the number of

they would eventually fill

severalfold. They needed to kill every single worm

longer and longer as they

more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than the worms

been transformed into a

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

there were over 500,000 worms in the

30,000 people living in the

default for people, and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even a symbol of status to

over 50% of the population had to actively go out and kill worms, the few that didn't need to go

Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and a famine appeared in

when a hero

wasn't a warrior

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

so that she and the others could live in peace inside the

and make the lives of everyone around her

her everything into studying, and eventually, she created something

the corpse of the Darkness Affinity

she managed to create a commodity that

this town was viewed very differently

just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader.

merchants were

they were legendary existences that could traverse the

to other towns and cities, which was the

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

Darkness Mage managed to produce something like

and after a long debate, the mortal district decided to trust

brought back as many corpses as

and night to produce as many Darkness Mana Crystals as possible, and when the

merchants looked at it with a frown and asked her how

told him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

density and purity of these Mana Crystals were horrible and barely