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 eyebrow

Emperor laughed a bit in embarrassment and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, you see, when

his overconfidence nearly cost him his life. He had severely underestimated the

to never allow another Emperor from

his goal and left our world. You know, he wanted to

far worse back then. We even saw

threat of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance it is

last decree, I think everyone went a bit overboard," the Lightning Emperor said with an embarrassed

thought about the ridiculous weak other Paths and called the Lightning Emperor's words

not "a bit"

told me," Wester

embarrassing. Lucius only told us

an Emperor. So, we killed all the Kings

that, things basically happened on their own. The Mage Kings were interested in the other Kings' and Lords' possessions, and the Mage Lords were interested in

every Path were left, and since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned

Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not

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

the times he shouted or ordered

have gone the same way if he remained in this world for longer. He probably would have said that we didn't need to be this brutal and

a killing spree, but after he calmed down, he was always embarrassed about his

as a content smile appeared on his

he was our leader, and we would have followed him

of seconds of

asked. "It appeared in

"I totally forgot the

we only give them access to the one for True Mages. We

with furrowed brows. "You don't want to keep it, even though it's an

ancient book found its way to a young warrior. I think he should keep

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

the book and nodded. "Where do you

lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably got sold somewhere as an oddity, and some

the Mage?" Wester asked. "You

get invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do anything wrong.

to hunt someone down just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a

wish

said as the book he was