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 in

Emperor laughed a bit in embarrassment and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, you see,

confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost

ordered us in anger to never allow another Emperor

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

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

Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance

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

the ridiculous weak other Paths and called the Lightning Emperor's

was not

never told

embarrassment again. "I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only

feared that some hidden King might become an

their own. 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' decree, they burned all the inheritances they found

other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why

situation suit the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no other Emperors are allowed to

times he shouted or ordered something in anger just to apologize

this would have gone the same way if he remained in this world for longer. He probably would have said that we didn't

angry, he could go on a killing spree, but after he calmed down,

grew distant as a content smile appeared on his

leader, and we would have followed

couple of seconds of silence

Map?" Wester asked. "It appeared in a Development Area, and

said. "I totally forgot the reason why you even

Of course, we only give them access to

at it with furrowed brows. "You

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

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

book and nodded. "Where do

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

the Mage?" Wester

"New Spells get invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised

they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone

nodded. "Then, I wish you

the book he was reading before Wester's arrival