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."

raised an eyebrow

neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the

absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost

to never allow another Emperor from any other Path

on achieving his goal and left our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which was his very reason

then. We even saw some King Abominations from time

the threat of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance it is

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

weak other Paths and called

not "a bit"

never told me," Wester

of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors

become an

were interested in the other Kings' and Lords'

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

bad about the other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not allow a

the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no other Emperors are allowed

chuckled a bit. "Lucius was a very heated fellow. I can't count the times he shouted or

if he remained in this world for longer. He probably would have said that we didn't need to

was angry, he could go on a killing spree, but after he calmed down, he was always

distant as

our leader, and we

of seconds

"It appeared in a Development Area, and its appearance

"I totally forgot the reason

Of course, we only give them access to the one for

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

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

I only need to wait a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth Realm can live for barely a millennium. I can

pocketed the book and nodded. "Where do you think the book came from,

Mirana's copy," the Lightning Emperor said. "She lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably got sold somewhere as an oddity, and some

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

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

entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone

I wish you a pleasant

the