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

back of his neck. "Well,

but his overconfidence nearly cost him his life.

anger to never allow another Emperor from any other Path to

world. You know, he wanted to

worse back then. We even saw

left, the threat of the Abominations

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

weak other Paths and called the Lightning Emperor's

not "a bit"

told

only told us to stop other Emperors

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

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

left, and since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned all the inheritances they found to show

other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not

the current situation suit the Mage God? After

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

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

on a killing spree, but after he calmed

as a content smile appeared on

he was our leader, and we would have followed

couple of seconds of silence

"It appeared in

"I totally forgot the reason why you even

we only give them access to the one for True Mages. We don't want to go overboard," the Lightning Emperor

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

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

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

pocketed the book and nodded. "Where do you think

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,

what about the Mage?" Wester asked. "You

"New Spells get invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly

entered one of our Development

wish you

you too, Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the book he was reading before Wester's arrival returned