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

Lightning Emperor laughed a bit in embarrassment and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the Grand Master of Weapons,

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

never allow another Emperor from

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

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

Lucius left, the threat of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance it is

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

about the ridiculous weak other Paths

was not "a bit"

told me," Wester

Emperor laughed with embarrassment again. "I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from

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

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

and since everyone

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

decree?" Wester asked. "Wouldn't the current situation suit the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no other

times he shouted or ordered something in anger just to apologize to us a couple of days later and rescind the

for longer. He probably would have said that we didn't need to be this brutal and that we should only be careful that

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

distant as a content smile appeared on

leader, and we would have followed

seconds of

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

said. "I totally forgot the reason why

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

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

its way to a young

need to wait a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth Realm can live for

nodded. "Where do you think the

lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one

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

Spells get invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like this.

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

wish you a pleasant evening,

too, Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the book he was reading before