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

Ice Affinity could be eaten, but they were outnumbered one to ten

each other, making it even more

the worms present, the number of normal beasts had dropped to a frighteningly

multiply even further, they

of that, the pressure on the hunters had increased severalfold. They needed to kill every single

longer and longer as they tried to

other than

been transformed into a land of

long and 20 centimeters wide.

that there were over 500,000 worms in the

barely 30,000 people living in the

default for people, and becoming anything else

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

worms reduced more and more, and a famine

when

wasn't a warrior but a

Mage had been born in this mortal district, and she

that she and the others could live in peace inside

to help them and make

studying, and eventually, she created something that would eliminate the famine once and for

a Spell that transformed the corpse

she managed to create a commodity

viewed very differently from how normal people

of a merchant as a shopkeeper

here, merchants were almost otherworldly

extremely powerful, and they were legendary existences that could

to other towns and cities, which was the

had never shown

managed to

Spell, and after a long debate, the mortal district

brought back as many corpses as

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

of the merchants looked at it with a frown

told him she had

The merchant's frown deepened.

these Mana Crystals were