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

had started with 36, and

would be about 30 left near

a devastating

focused on the first two levels in the

but 80%

What happened?

the extremely rare group trials with a chance of

kinds of trials were only open for Peak Ancestral Mages that had been in the Wilderness

only left

had killed a lot of

But who?

Mage couldn't possibly kill that many Initial Ancestral Mages since they were not allowed to attack

Ancestral Mages talked to each other via voice transmission, trying to find out who it could

three Initial Ancestral Mages had been at that level for quite a time to accumulate

make a lot of money. She even had several deals with other Clouds. In exchange for her safety in the Wilderness Hunt,

be detrimental to her business, which was why everyone was quite certain that she

Mage was a notorious serial

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

of stuff which he would then mostly

requests to find certain

for him to kill so many other Clouds since

from the auras of the first two Clouds,

third Initial

woman with light-blue hair, and they all

new Cloud that had asked the leading Bolt about

Clouds concluded that she had joined just a couple

Ice Affinity, but

still

seen her fight in

also noticed all of this,

had traveled mostly

could earn