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 they were waiting for, they would

started with 36, and now they were

there would be about 30

was quite a

on the first two levels

expected parameters, but 80% of Early Ancestral Mages and 70% of Initial Ancestral

What happened?

of the extremely rare group trials

only open for Peak Ancestral Mages that had been in

only left one other

a lot of

But who?

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

each other via voice transmission, trying to find out who it

three Initial Ancestral Mages had been at that

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

which was why everyone was

second Initial Ancestral Mage was

customer, and he

the other, earning a lot of stuff which he would then mostly sell to other

find certain extremely rare materials in

sense for him to kill so many other Clouds since that would damage

the first two Clouds, they were

the third Initial Ancestral

was a woman with light-blue hair,

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

exchanging information, the Clouds concluded that she had joined just a couple of decades ago and that

Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen her

that still held

a single Cloud had seen

noticed all of this, and they moved closer to

were thankful that they had

earn more by combining