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.

with the one they were

started with 36, and now

that there would be about 30

quite a

deaths mostly focused on the first two levels

expected parameters, but 80% of Early Ancestral Mages and

What happened?

they enter one of the extremely rare group trials with

these kinds of trials were only open for Peak Ancestral Mages that had

left

killed a

But who?

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

Mages talked to each other via voice transmission, trying to find

three Initial Ancestral Mages had been at that level for quite a time to accumulate power, and they had always been

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

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

was a notorious serial

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

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

to find certain extremely rare

for him to kill so many other

the auras of the first two

left the third

light-blue hair, and they all

been the new Cloud that had asked the leading Bolt about the

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

Ice Affinity, but they

still held

single Cloud had seen her fight in the Wilderness

Mages also noticed all of this, and they

that they had

wanted to see if they could earn more by combining