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.

the one

36,

that there would be about 30 left near the

was quite a devastating

deaths mostly focused on the first two levels in the

80% of Early Ancestral

What happened?

rare group trials with

these kinds of trials were only open for Peak Ancestral Mages that had been in the Wilderness Hunt

left one other

killed a lot

But who?

Mages. After all, an Early Ancestral Mage couldn't possibly kill that many Initial Ancestral

other via voice transmission,

end, it came out that two of the three Initial Ancestral Mages had been at that level for quite a time to accumulate power, and they had always been quite

had several deals with other Clouds. In exchange for her safety in the Wilderness Hunt, they would get

would be detrimental to her business, which was why everyone was

second Initial Ancestral Mage was

Mage's biggest customer, and he specialized in a wide variety

lot of stuff

to find certain extremely rare materials in the

so many other Clouds since that would damage his

two Clouds, they were not

third Initial Ancestral

light-blue hair, and

the leading Bolt about the Deep

concluded that she had joined just a couple of decades

Affinity, but they hadn't seen her fight

that still held

seen her fight in

two Initial Ancestral Mages also noticed all of this,

had traveled

could earn