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 would be

with 36,

there would be about 30 left near the end, but

a devastating

the deaths mostly focused on the first two levels

80% of Early Ancestral Mages and 70%

What happened?

the extremely rare

for Peak Ancestral Mages

left

had killed a lot

But who?

Initial Ancestral Mages. After all, an Early Ancestral Mage couldn't possibly kill that many Initial

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

had been at that level for quite a time to

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

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

Mage was a notorious

Mage's biggest customer, and he

after the other, earning a lot of stuff which he would then mostly sell to

certain extremely rare materials in

kill so many other

from the auras of the first two Clouds, they were not happy

left the third Initial Ancestral

was a woman with light-blue hair, and they all remembered

that had asked the leading Bolt about the Deep Crevices on their way

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

had an Ice Affinity, but they hadn't seen her fight

still

had seen her fight in the

also noticed all of this, and they moved closer

that they had traveled mostly

if they could earn more by combining their businesses