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

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

cost him

winning, he ordered us in anger to never allow

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

worse back then. We even saw some King

Lucius left, the threat of the Abominations diminished

went a bit overboard," the Lightning Emperor

the ridiculous weak other Paths and called the

was not

never told me,"

kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors

then, we feared that some hidden King might become an

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

everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned all the inheritances they found to show their

other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not allow a

Wester asked. "Wouldn't the current situation suit the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no other Emperors are

I can't count the times he shouted or ordered something in anger just to apologize to us

have said that we didn't need to be this brutal and that we should only be careful that they don't take

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

distant as a content smile appeared on

was our leader, and we would have followed him

of seconds of

"It appeared in a Development Area, and its appearance might

totally forgot the

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

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

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

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

pocketed the book and nodded. "Where do you think the

quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably

Wester asked. "You couldn't find

Lightning Emperor said with a chuckle. "New Spells get invented all the time. It's quite refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do anything wrong. They just gave

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

"Then, I wish you a pleasant evening,

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