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

back of his neck. "Well,

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

never allow another Emperor from any other

his goal and left our world. You know, he wanted to fix

was far worse back then. We even saw some

left, the threat of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful

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

about the ridiculous weak other Paths and called the Lightning

not "a bit"

told me," Wester

"I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but

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

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

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

their

Mage God? After all, he

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

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

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

eyes grew distant as a content

our leader, and we would have followed

couple of seconds of

the Star Map?" Wester asked. "It appeared in a Development Area, and its appearance might

totally forgot

access to the one for

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

this ancient book found its way to

need to wait a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth

nodded. "Where do you think the

in her lifetime. This one probably got sold somewhere as an oddity, and some Mage got

the Mage?" Wester

refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do anything wrong. They

down just because they entered one of our Development Areas

I wish

you too, Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the