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.

one they were waiting for,

36,

30 left near the end,

was quite a devastating

the deaths mostly focused on the first

other three levels were still within expected parameters, but 80% of Early Ancestral

What happened?

enter one of the extremely rare group trials

only open for Peak Ancestral Mages that had been

left one other

had killed a

But who?

all, an Early Ancestral Mage couldn't possibly kill that many Initial Ancestral Mages since they were not allowed to attack

via voice transmission, trying to find out who it could

at that level for quite a time to

deals with other Clouds. In exchange for her safety in the Wilderness Hunt,

detrimental to her business, which was why everyone was quite certain that she hadn't been the

was a notorious serial

the first Ancestral Mage's biggest customer, and he

lot of stuff which he would

requests to find certain extremely rare materials in

no sense for him to kill so many other

first two Clouds, they were

third Initial

woman with light-blue hair, and they

been the new Cloud that had asked the leading Bolt about the

just a couple of

had an Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen

that still held

a single Cloud had seen her fight in the

Initial Ancestral Mages also noticed all of this, and they moved

thankful that they had traveled mostly

earn more