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

the back of his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the Grand Master of Weapons, he got

cost him

winning, he ordered us in anger to never allow another Emperor from any other Path to

quickly focused on achieving his goal and left our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with

of the Abominations was far worse back then. We even saw some King Abominations from time to

of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance it

everyone went a bit overboard," the Lightning Emperor said

ridiculous weak other Paths

not

told me," Wester

embarrassing. Lucius only told

King might become an Emperor. So,

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

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

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

God? After all, he ordered that no other Emperors are allowed

Emperor chuckled a bit. "Lucius 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

this 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

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

Lightning Emperor's eyes grew distant as a content smile appeared on

he was our leader, and we

couple of seconds

in a Development

"I totally

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 Emperor

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

way to a young warrior. I think he should keep the

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

book and nodded. "Where do you think

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

Wester asked. "You

refreshing to get surprised like this.

one of our Development Areas and gave someone a technique. We don't need

I wish

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