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 in

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

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

anger to never allow another Emperor from any

You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which was his very reason for going this far

plague of the Abominations was far worse back then. We even

of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful

his last decree, I think everyone went a bit

other Paths and called the Lightning Emperor's words

not

told me," Wester

embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but things

King might become an Emperor. So, we killed all the Kings and their

their own. The Mage Kings were interested in the other

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

a bit bad about the other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not allow a

the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no

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

this would have gone the same way if he remained in this world for longer. He probably would have said that we didn't need to be this brutal and that we should only be careful that they don't take their

he calmed down, he

grew distant as a content smile

leader, and we would have followed

of seconds of silence

appeared in a Development

"I totally forgot the reason why you even came

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

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

Emperor said. "Somehow, this ancient book found its way to a young warrior. I think he

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

the book and nodded. "Where do

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

Mage?" Wester asked. "You

Lightning Emperor said with a chuckle. "New Spells get invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do

entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone

nodded. "Then, I wish you

as the book he was reading before Wester's