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 one to ten by the

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

the number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly

were allowed to multiply even further, they would eventually fill out

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

grew longer and longer as they

eventually, no beast other than the worms could be found for nearly a hundred

had been transformed into a

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

that there were over

30,000 people living in

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

go out and kill

number of Ice Affinity worms reduced more and more, and

was when

it wasn't a warrior

and she

that she and the others could live in

and make the lives of

into studying, and eventually, she created something that would eliminate

transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure

to create a commodity that the

was viewed very differently from how normal people

would just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper

merchants were

powerful, and they were legendary existences that could traverse the

cities, which was the dream of nearly

these supremely powerful visitors had never shown interest in anything the

now, the Darkness Mage managed to produce

told everyone about her Spell, and after a long debate, the

many corpses as possible and handed them

Crystals as possible, and when the merchants showed up the

it with a frown and asked

told him she had around

The merchant's frown deepened.

purity of these Mana Crystals