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.

in total, and with the one they were waiting for, they would be

with 36, and

about 30

was quite a devastating

deaths mostly focused on the first two levels in the Ancestral Mage

80% of Early

What happened?

of the extremely rare group trials with a chance

trials were only open for Peak Ancestral Mages that had

left one

killed a lot of

But who?

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

Ancestral Mages talked to each other via voice transmission, trying to find

had been at that level for quite a time to

of 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 Clouds. In exchange

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

Initial Ancestral Mage was a

first Ancestral Mage's biggest customer, and he

the other, earning a lot of stuff which he

find certain extremely rare materials

so many other Clouds since that would damage his

the auras of the first two

left the third

light-blue hair, and they all remembered

Cloud that had asked the leading Bolt about the Deep Crevices on

joined just a

Ice Affinity, but

that still held

seen her fight in the Wilderness

other two Initial Ancestral Mages also noticed all of this, and

were thankful that they had traveled mostly

wanted to see if they could earn more