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 were waiting for,

started with 36, and now they

about 30 left near the end,

a

mostly focused on the first two levels in the Ancestral Mage

within expected parameters, but 80% of

What happened?

one of the extremely rare group trials with

Peak Ancestral Mages that had been in the Wilderness Hunt several

only left one other

killed a lot

But who?

one of the three remaining Initial Ancestral Mages. After all, an Early Ancestral Mage couldn't possibly kill that many Initial Ancestral Mages since they were not allowed to

each other via voice

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

trials to make a lot of money. She even had several deals with other Clouds.

detrimental to her business, which was why everyone was

Ancestral Mage was a notorious serial trial

first Ancestral Mage's biggest customer, and he

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

find certain extremely rare materials in the right

for him to kill so

from the auras of the first two Clouds, they were

left the third Initial

light-blue hair, and they

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

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

Ice Affinity, but

still held

seen

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

thankful that they had traveled

could earn