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

of his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the Grand Master

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

to never allow

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

worse back then.

left, the threat of the Abominations

everyone went a bit overboard,"

about 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 told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but

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

that, things basically happened on their own. The Mage Kings were interested in the other Kings' and Lords' possessions, and the Mage Lords were interested

were left, and since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned

their inheritances. So, why not

situation suit the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no

can't count the times he shouted or ordered something

this world for longer. He probably would have said that we didn't need to be this brutal and that we should only

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

grew distant as

leader, and we would

of seconds

"It appeared in a Development

totally forgot

access to

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

way to

a bit until he dies. Someone in

"Where do you think the book came

books in her lifetime. This one probably got sold somewhere as an oddity, and some

the Mage?" Wester asked. "You couldn't find

time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do

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

I wish you a pleasant

Emperor said as the book he was reading before Wester's arrival returned to