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 waiting for,

had started with 36, and now

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

was quite a devastating

focused on the

still within expected parameters, but 80% of Early Ancestral Mages and

What happened?

one of the extremely rare group trials with a chance

Peak Ancestral Mages that had been in the

left one other

had killed a

But who?

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

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

Mages had been at that level for quite a time to accumulate power, and

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 get a discount for purchasing any of

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

was a notorious serial trial

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

earning a lot of stuff which he

find certain extremely

would make no sense for him to kill so many other Clouds since that would

of the first two Clouds, they were

left the third Initial Ancestral

with light-blue hair, and

had been the new Cloud that had asked the leading Bolt

a couple of decades ago and that her powers were a

an Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen

that still

Cloud had seen her

two Initial Ancestral Mages also noticed all of this, and they moved closer to each

they had traveled mostly together this

they could earn more by combining their businesses this