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.

Clouds in total, and with the one they were waiting for, they

with 36, and now

would be about 30 left near the

a devastating death

focused on the first two levels in the Ancestral Mage

within expected parameters, but 80%

What happened?

of the extremely rare group trials with a chance

open for Peak Ancestral Mages that had been in the Wilderness Hunt

only left

killed a lot

But who?

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 them

Ancestral Mages talked to each other via voice transmission,

end, it came out that two of the three Initial Ancestral Mages had been at

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 the trial

others would be detrimental to her business, which was why everyone

was a notorious

customer, and he specialized in a wide variety of

one trial after the other, earning a lot of stuff which

requests to find certain extremely rare materials in the

sense for him to kill so many other Clouds since that

first two Clouds, they were not happy about this

left the third Initial

woman with light-blue

the new Cloud that had asked the leading Bolt

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

knew that she had an Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen her

that still

seen her fight in the

Ancestral Mages also noticed all

thankful that they had traveled

could earn more by combining their