Sword God in a World of Magic

"Oh, hey! You're still alive!" One of the Peak Ancestral Mages shouted to a Mid Ancestral Mage with a smile.

The other Ancestral Mage floated over and nodded. "Yep, and I also made quite a bit this time. I completed three trials."

The first Mage let out an impressive whistle. "Impressive," he said. "Anyway, did you get Maruda?"

The second Mage slowly shook his head. "Couldn't find him."

"Huh, he's normally one of the first ones that return. I thought that you got him," the first Mage said.

"Nope," the second Mage said again. "It would suck if he suddenly dies. I wouldn't get my payment and his wealth."

"Speaking of," he added as he looked at the gathered Mages above the surface. "I also don't see my contractor."

The first Mage shrugged. "Maybe they're still in a trial?"

The other Mage just furrowed his brows. Then, he turned to Lucin, who was looking at the ocean. "Lucin, who are we still waiting for?"

"There's one more Peak Ancestral Mage. She's choosing her rewards right now. I don't think it will take longer than a couple of minutes," Lucin answered.

When Lucin said that, several other Mages raised their eyebrows in surprise.

Wait, basically everyone was already here?

They looked at each other and counted.

Twelve Peak Ancestral Mages.

Two Late Ancestral Mages.

Two Mid Ancestral Mages.

One Early Ancestral Mage.

Three Initial Ancestral Mages.

Clouds in total, and with the one they were waiting for, they

36, and now

there would be about 30 left near

was quite a devastating death

the first two levels in the

80%

What happened?

rare group trials with

were only open for Peak Ancestral Mages that had been in the Wilderness Hunt several

only left

had killed a lot

But who?

of the three remaining Initial Ancestral Mages. After all, an Early Ancestral Mage couldn't

to each other via voice transmission,

three Initial Ancestral Mages had been at that level for quite a time

them focused on inspecting the wildernesses and noting down locations of trials to make a lot of money. She even had several deals with other

would be detrimental to her business, which was why everyone was quite certain that

was a notorious serial trial

customer, and

earning a lot of stuff which

to find certain extremely rare materials in

so many other

the auras of the first two Clouds, they were not happy about this

the third

with light-blue hair, and they

that had asked the leading Bolt about the Deep Crevices on

Clouds concluded that she had joined just a couple of decades ago and that

an Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen

still

Cloud had seen her fight in the

Mages also noticed all

were thankful that they had traveled mostly together this

see if they could earn more by