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.

and with the one they were waiting for, they

with 36,

30 left near the end, but there were only

was quite a

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

but 80% of Early Ancestral Mages and 70% of

What happened?

the extremely rare

Ancestral Mages that had been in the Wilderness Hunt several

left one

a

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 attack

Mages talked to each other via voice

had been at that level for quite a time to accumulate power, and

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

business, which was why everyone was quite

Initial Ancestral Mage was a notorious

and he specialized in a wide variety of

of stuff which he would then

certain

him to kill so many other Clouds since that would damage

first two Clouds, they were

left the third Initial Ancestral

was a woman with light-blue

asked the leading Bolt about the Deep Crevices

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

Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen her fight

still

Cloud had seen her fight in

also noticed all of this, and they

that they had

wanted to see if they could earn more