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 one to ten by the worms with a Darkness

other, making it even more difficult to get

all the worms present, the number of normal beasts

were allowed to multiply even further, they

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

grew longer and longer as they tried to find

more beasts, and eventually, no beast other than

had been transformed

were barely a meter long and 20 centimeters wide. In the Peak Soldier Stage,

over 500,000 worms in the

were barely 30,000 people living in

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

50% of the population had to actively go out and kill worms, the

reduced more and more, and a

was when

it wasn't a warrior but a

district, and

just so that she and the others

them and make the lives of everyone

that, she put her everything into studying, and eventually, she created something that would eliminate

that transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure Darkness

a commodity that the merchants were interested

viewed very differently

a merchant as a shopkeeper or a trader. That's

were almost

they were legendary existences that could traverse the

cities, which was the dream

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

managed to produce something

had told everyone about her Spell, and after a long

corpses as possible and

Mana Crystals as possible, and when the merchants showed

the merchants looked at it with a

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

and purity of these Mana Crystals were