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.

one they were waiting for, they

started with 36, and now

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

was quite a

focused on the first two levels in the

but 80% of

What happened?

the extremely rare group trials with a chance of

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

only left one

had killed a lot of

But who?

Mage

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

Initial Ancestral Mages had been at that

and noting down locations of trials to make a lot of money. She even had several deals with

was why

Ancestral Mage was

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

after the other, earning a lot of stuff which he

certain extremely rare materials

for him to kill so many other Clouds since that would damage his

the first two Clouds, they were not happy

the third Initial Ancestral

woman with light-blue hair, and they all remembered

been the new Cloud that had asked the leading Bolt

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

had an Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen

still held

seen her fight in

Mages also noticed all

thankful that they had traveled

wanted to see if they could earn more by combining their businesses