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 in

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

his overconfidence nearly cost him his

us in anger to never allow another Emperor

he quickly focused on achieving his goal and left our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the

worse back then. We

the Abominations diminished to the

decree, I think everyone went a

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

was not "a

told

Lightning Emperor laughed with embarrassment again. "I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors

that some hidden King might become an Emperor. So, we killed all the Kings

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

weakest people of every Path were left, and since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned all the inheritances they found to

bit bad about the other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why

current situation suit the Mage God?

bit. "Lucius was a very heated fellow. I can't count the times he shouted or ordered something in anger just

have said that we didn't need to be this brutal and

was angry, he could go on a killing spree, but after he calmed down, he was always embarrassed about his actions. He

eyes grew distant as a content smile appeared on his

he was our leader, and we would

seconds of

appeared in a Development Area, and its appearance might break the

said. "I totally

Star Map to them as well. Of course, we only give them access to

Wester, who looked at it with furrowed brows. "You don't want to keep it,

Emperor said. "Somehow, this ancient book found its way to a young warrior. I

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

"Where do you think the book

copy," the Lightning Emperor said. "She lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably got

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

Lightning Emperor said with a chuckle. "New Spells get invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like this.

no reason to hunt someone down just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a technique. We don't

nodded. "Then, I wish you

the Lightning Emperor said as the book he was reading before