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

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

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

to never allow another

and left our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations,

worse back then. We even

threat of the Abominations diminished to

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

weak other Paths and called

was not "a bit"

told me,"

mean, it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us

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

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

and since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned all

the other Paths losing all their

Mage God?

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 days later and

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

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

eyes grew distant as a content smile appeared on his

our leader, and we would

seconds

asked. "It appeared in a Development Area, and its appearance might break the

totally forgot the reason why you

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

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

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

a bit. "Also, I only need to wait a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth Realm

"Where do

Emperor said. "She lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably

Wester asked. "You couldn't find

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

because they entered one of our Development Areas

wish you

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