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

the back of his neck. "Well,

went into the fight with absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him his life. He

never allow another Emperor from any other

his goal and left our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which

the Abominations was far worse back then. We even

Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance it is

I think everyone went a bit overboard,"

about the ridiculous weak other Paths and called the

not

told me," Wester

only told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but

an Emperor. So, we killed

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

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

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

situation suit the Mage God? After all,

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

He probably would have said that we didn't need to

spree, but after he calmed down, he was

grew distant as a

and we would have followed

seconds

about the Star Map?" Wester asked. "It appeared in a Development

right," the Lightning Emperor said. "I totally

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

to Wester, who looked at it with furrowed brows. "You

ancient book found its way

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

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

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

about the Mage?" Wester asked. "You

surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do anything wrong. They just

no reason to hunt someone down just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a

nodded. "Then, I wish you a pleasant evening,

the book he was reading before Wester's