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

his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius

into the fight with absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost

winning, he ordered us in anger to never

overcoming his last opponent, he quickly 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

back then. We

Lucius left, the threat of the Abominations diminished

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

other Paths and called the Lightning Emperor's words

not

told me," Wester

it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from rising,

that some hidden King might become an Emperor. So,

interested in the other Kings' and Lords' possessions,

until only the weakest people of every Path were left, and since everyone heard

about the other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why

"Wouldn't the current situation suit the Mage God? After

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

this world for longer. He probably would have said that

a killing spree, but after he calmed down, he was always

Lightning Emperor's eyes grew distant as

leader, and we

of seconds

"It appeared in a Development Area, and

said. "I totally forgot

them as well. Of course, we only give them access to the one for True Mages. We don't

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

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

Lightning Emperor grinned a bit. "Also, I only need to wait a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth Realm can live for barely a millennium. I

do you think the book came

the Lightning Emperor said. "She lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably got sold somewhere

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

the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like

no reason to hunt someone down just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a technique.

nodded. "Then, I wish you a

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