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,

started with 36, and now

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

a devastating death

mostly focused on the first two

parameters, but 80% of Early Ancestral

What happened?

extremely rare group

for Peak Ancestral Mages that had been

only left one

had killed a

But who?

three remaining Initial Ancestral Mages. After all, an Early Ancestral Mage couldn't possibly kill that many Initial Ancestral Mages since they were not

each other via voice transmission,

Initial Ancestral Mages had been at that level for

a lot of money. She even had several deals with other

would be detrimental to her business, which was why everyone was quite certain that she hadn't

second Initial Ancestral Mage was a

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

earning a lot of stuff which he would then mostly

certain extremely rare materials in the right

him to kill so many other Clouds since

first two Clouds, they were not happy about this

the third Initial Ancestral

woman with light-blue hair, and

the new Cloud that had asked the leading Bolt about the Deep Crevices

that she had joined just a couple of

Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen

that still held

even a single Cloud had seen

Ancestral Mages also noticed all of this, and they

that they had

to see if they could earn more