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 in

the back of his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the Grand Master of Weapons, he got

into the fight with absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him his life. He had severely underestimated the Grand Master of

ordered us in anger to never allow another Emperor from any other Path

know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which was his very reason for going this far in

Abominations was far worse back then. We even

the threat of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance

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

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

not "a

never told me," Wester

of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but things

that some hidden King might become an Emperor. So, we

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

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

the other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not allow a small resurgence?" the Lightning Emperor

Mage God? After all, he ordered that no

Emperor chuckled a bit. "Lucius was a very heated fellow. I can't count the times he shouted or ordered something in anger just to apologize to us a couple of days later and rescind the

if he remained in this world for longer. He probably would have said that we didn't need to be this brutal and that we should only be careful that they don't take their revenge

but after he calmed down, he was always embarrassed about his actions. He was a weird

Lightning Emperor's eyes grew distant as a content smile appeared

and we would have followed him

of seconds of

appeared in a Development Area,

Lightning Emperor said. "I totally

give them access to the one for True Mages.

looked at it with furrowed brows. "You don't want

found its way to

to wait a bit until he dies. Someone in

nodded. "Where do you think the book

Lightning Emperor said. "She lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably got sold somewhere as

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

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

someone down just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a technique.

wish

too, Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the