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.

poisonous

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

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

of normal beasts had dropped to

they would eventually fill out every square meter of

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

hunters grew longer and

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

icy wasteland had been transformed into a land

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

estimated that there were over 500,000 worms in the surrounding

barely 30,000 people

people, and becoming anything else had actually become difficult and even

to actively go out and

more and more, and a famine appeared

when a hero

wasn't a warrior

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

superiors fight and hunt just so that she

them and make the

she created something that would eliminate

transformed the corpse of the Darkness Affinity worms into pure

managed to create a commodity that the merchants were

was viewed very differently from how normal

would just think of a merchant as a shopkeeper

merchants were

they were legendary existences that could

and cities, which was the dream of

had never shown interest in anything the mortal district had

managed to produce something

everyone about her Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district decided

as many corpses as

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

looked at it with a

she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

of these Mana Crystals were horrible and