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, and now

expected that there would be about 30

was quite a devastating death

deaths mostly focused on the first two levels in the

three levels were still within expected parameters, but 80% of Early Ancestral Mages and 70% of

What happened?

of the extremely rare group trials with

kinds of trials were only open for Peak Ancestral Mages

left

killed a lot of

But who?

remaining Initial Ancestral Mages. After all, an Early Ancestral Mage couldn't possibly

Ancestral Mages talked to each other via voice

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

the wildernesses and noting down 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

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

Initial Ancestral Mage was a notorious

first Ancestral Mage's biggest customer, and he specialized in a

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

to find certain extremely rare materials in the right

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

from the auras of the first two Clouds, they were not

left the third

with light-blue hair, and they all remembered

been the new Cloud that had asked the

joined just a

Affinity, but

that still

even a single Cloud had seen her fight in the

other two Initial Ancestral Mages also noticed all of this,

they had

they could earn more