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

embarrassment and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the

fight with absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him

to never allow another Emperor from any other Path to rise

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

was far worse back then. We even saw some King Abominations from

threat of the Abominations diminished

I think everyone went a bit overboard," the

Paths

was not "a

told me,"

with embarrassment again. "I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but things turned out this

might become an Emperor. So,

in the other Kings' and Lords' possessions, and the Mage Lords were interested in the possessions of

and since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned all the

all their inheritances. So, why not allow

"Wouldn't the current situation suit the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no

can't count the times he shouted or ordered something in anger just to apologize to us a couple of

have said that we didn't need to

but after he calmed down, he was always embarrassed about his

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

and we would have followed him

couple of seconds of

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

the Lightning Emperor said. "I totally forgot the reason

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

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

ancient book found its way to

he

book and nodded. "Where do you think the

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

Wester asked. "You couldn't

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

they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a technique. We don't need to be

wish you

the Lightning Emperor said as the book