Sword God in a World of Magic

The Lightning Emperor told Wester a bit more about the old times. Wester wasn't particularly interested, but he still listened intently.

"By the way, where did you get this book from?" the Lightning Emperor asked. "Not even I have an original."

"Someone handed this book to a talented warrior in Area 23," Wester said.

"Oh, I wonder where they got it from," the Lightning Emperor said. "Who gave the warrior this book?"

Wester told everything he had heard from the Starlight Queen to the Lightning Emperor.

The Lightning Emperor knew that the description of that person fit with reality. With his power, it wasn't very hard to discern truth from falsehood.

"Interesting," he said.

Then, the Lightning Emperor closed his eyes for a couple of seconds.

"There are about two Mages that fit the description, but they haven't been to Area 23 in the recent 100 years," the Lightning Emperor said.

In just a mere couple of seconds, the Lightning Emperor had looked through his entire territory and had read everyone's aura. Additionally, he had read the past of the two Mages.

Sadly, this didn't work for finding the Child of Calamity. Maybe if they became more powerful and unleashed their Calamity Affinity, this could become a possibility.

But as it stood now, there were simply too many people to look through.

Yes, he managed to look through everyone, but he only looked at the Ancestral Mages and more powerful, and he only looked at their general auras.

If he wanted to find the Child of Calamity like this, he would need to look through everyone and deeply analyze their Affinities.

The Affinity of the Child of Calamity looked like a Fire, Ice, Darkness, or Light Affinity at a cursory glance.

Only when a powerful Mage looked very closely or administered a bloodline test would they be able to identify the Child of Calamity.

"Do you want me to investigate?" Wester asked.

"No, it's fine," the Lightning Emperor said with a smile. "It's been a long time since the Purge, and I was never a great fan of it. In actuality, I feel quite a bit of regret."

"Wasn't it the Mage God's degree?" Wester asked.

"Well," the Lightning Emperor said slowly. "Kind of, but not really."

an

Lightning Emperor laughed a bit in embarrassment and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the Grand Master of Weapons, he got really

overconfidence nearly cost him his life.

winning, he ordered us in anger to never allow another Emperor from

and left our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue

plague of the Abominations was far worse back then. We even saw

after Lucius left, the threat of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful

for his last decree, I think everyone went a bit overboard,"

weak other Paths and

was not "a bit"

never told me," Wester

only told us to stop

King might become an Emperor. So, we killed

on their own. The Mage Kings were interested in the other Kings' and Lords'

everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned

all their inheritances. So,

"Wouldn't the current situation suit the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no other Emperors

fellow. I can't count the times he shouted or ordered something

longer. He probably would have said that we didn't need to be this brutal and that we should only be

he calmed down, he was

eyes grew distant as

and we would have followed

of seconds of

about the Star Map?" Wester asked. "It appeared in a Development Area, and its appearance might break the

the Lightning Emperor said. "I totally forgot

Star Map to them as well. Of course, we only give them access to the one for True Mages. We

it with furrowed brows. "You don't

said. "Somehow, this ancient book found its way to a

Emperor grinned a bit. "Also, I only need to wait a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth

"Where do you think

said. "She lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably

the Mage?" Wester asked. "You couldn't

"New Spells get invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like

just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a technique. We don't need to

"Then, I wish you a pleasant

said as the book he was reading