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

Ice Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered

kill each other, making it even more difficult to

the worms present, the number of normal beasts had dropped

allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out every square meter of the

to kill every single worm they could find and bring back the small scraps of food they

grew longer and

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

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land

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

over 500,000 worms

there were barely 30,000 people living

becoming a warrior had become the default for people, and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even a symbol

actively go out and kill worms, the few

the number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and

was when

it wasn't a

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

superiors fight and hunt just so that she and the others could live in

always wanted to help them and make the

eventually, she created

that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity

create a commodity that the merchants were

this town was viewed very differently from

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

merchants were

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

towns and cities, which was

supremely powerful visitors had never shown

the Darkness Mage managed to

told everyone about her Spell, and after a long

brought back as many corpses as possible and handed them to

when the merchants showed up the next time, she presented them

merchants looked at it with a frown and

told him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals were