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

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

confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him his life. He

anger to never allow

left our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which was his very reason for

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

left, the threat of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful

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

thought about the ridiculous weak other Paths and

was not

never told me," Wester

kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but things turned out this

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

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

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

bit bad about the other Paths losing all their inheritances.

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

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

have gone the same way if he remained in this world for longer. He probably would have said that

but after he calmed

distant as a content smile appeared on

and we would

seconds of

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

totally forgot

well. Of course, we only give them access to the one for True Mages. We don't want to go overboard," the Lightning Emperor

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

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

until he dies. Someone in the Fourth

nodded. "Where do you think the book

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

what about the Mage?" Wester asked.

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 anything

reason to hunt someone down just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a technique. We don't

nodded. "Then, I wish

the Lightning Emperor said as the book