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

36, and now they

expected that there would be about 30 left near the end, but there were

quite a

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

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

What happened?

enter one of the extremely rare group

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

only left

had killed a

But who?

Mages. After all, an Early Ancestral Mage couldn't possibly kill that many Initial

talked to each other via voice transmission, trying to

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

was why everyone was quite certain that she hadn't been

Ancestral Mage was a notorious serial

biggest customer, and he specialized in a wide variety of

earning a lot of stuff which

find certain extremely

would make no sense for him to kill so many

two

third Initial Ancestral

woman with light-blue hair, and they all

the leading Bolt about

had joined just a couple of decades

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

still

seen her

Initial Ancestral Mages also noticed all of this,

thankful that they had traveled mostly together this

see if they could earn more