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

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

fight with absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him his

ordered us in anger to never allow another

on achieving his goal and left our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which was his very

then. We even saw

Abominations diminished to the pitiful

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

ridiculous weak other Paths and called

not

told me," Wester

only

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

their own. The Mage Kings were interested in the other Kings' and Lords' possessions, and the Mage Lords were interested in

were left, and since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned all the inheritances they found

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

the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no other Emperors

was a very heated fellow. I can't count the times he shouted or ordered something in anger just to apologize to us a couple of

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

Lucius was angry, he could go on a killing spree, but after he calmed down, he was always embarrassed about

Emperor's eyes grew distant as

was our leader, and we would have

seconds of

Wester asked. "It appeared in a Development Area,

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

access to the one for True Mages. We don't want to go overboard," the Lightning

it with furrowed brows. "You don't want to

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

wait a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth Realm can live for barely a millennium. I can wait

book and nodded. "Where do

a few books in her lifetime. This one probably got sold

the Mage?" Wester asked.

chuckle. "New Spells get invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't

to hunt someone down just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave

I wish

Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the book he