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

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

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

ordered us in anger to never

focused on 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 far in

the Abominations was far worse back then. We even saw some King

of the Abominations diminished

decree, I think everyone went a bit

about the ridiculous weak other Paths and

was not "a bit"

told

it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only

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

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

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

losing all their inheritances. So, why not allow a small resurgence?" the

asked. "Wouldn't the current situation suit the Mage God? After all, he

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

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

go on a killing spree, but after he

grew distant as

our leader, and we

couple of seconds of

Wester asked. "It appeared in a

said. "I totally forgot the reason why you

introduce our Star Map to them as well. Of course, we only give them access to

at it with furrowed

Lightning Emperor said. "Somehow, this ancient book found its way to a

until he dies.

nodded. "Where do you think the book came

said. "She lost quite a few books in her

about the Mage?" Wester asked. "You

invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do anything wrong. They

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

nodded. "Then, I wish you a pleasant evening,

Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the book he was reading