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.

with the one they

36, and now they

be about 30 left

a

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

were still within expected parameters, but 80% of

What happened?

they enter one of the extremely rare group

were only open for Peak Ancestral Mages that had been

only left

had killed a lot of

But who?

Ancestral Mages. After all, an Early Ancestral Mage

Ancestral Mages talked to each other via voice transmission, trying to find out who it could have

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

locations of trials to make a lot of money. She even had several deals with other Clouds. In exchange for her safety in the Wilderness Hunt, they would get a discount for purchasing any of

others would be detrimental to her business, which was why

was a notorious serial trial

and he specialized in a wide

earning a lot of stuff which

certain

make no sense for him to kill so many other Clouds since that

judging from the auras of the first two Clouds, they were

third

with light-blue hair, and they all remembered

that had asked the leading Bolt about the Deep Crevices

concluded that she had joined just a couple of decades ago and that her powers were a

had an Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen her

that still held

a single Cloud had seen her

also noticed all of this, and they moved closer to

that they had traveled mostly

wanted to see if they could earn more by combining their businesses this