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

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

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

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

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 this far in

plague of the Abominations was far worse back then. We even saw some King Abominations from time to

Lucius left, the threat of the Abominations diminished

went a bit overboard," the Lightning Emperor said with

Paths and called the

was not "a bit"

never told

it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but things turned

become an Emperor. So, we killed

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

and since everyone heard Lucius'

other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not allow

asked. "Wouldn't the current situation suit the Mage God? After

very heated fellow. I can't count the times he shouted or ordered something in anger just

would have said that we didn't need to be this brutal and that we should only

on a killing spree, but after he calmed down, he

distant as

he was our leader, and we would

couple of seconds of

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

the Lightning Emperor said. "I totally forgot the reason why you

Star Map to them as well. Of course, we only give them access to the one for True Mages. We don't want to

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

found its way to a young warrior. I think he should keep the

Emperor grinned a bit. "Also, I only need to wait a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth Realm can live for barely

and nodded. "Where do you

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

Mage?" Wester

quite refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do anything wrong. They just gave someone a technique they thought the

our Development Areas and gave someone

"Then, I wish you

the Lightning Emperor said as the