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

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

the fight with absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him his life.

to never

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

the Abominations was far worse back then. We even saw

after Lucius left, the threat of the Abominations diminished

think everyone went a bit

thought about the ridiculous weak other Paths and called the Lightning

not

never told

Lightning Emperor laughed with embarrassment again. "I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but things turned out this

feared that some hidden King might become an

Mage Kings were interested in the other Kings' and

since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned all the

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

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

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 rescind

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 be careful that they don't take their revenge on

but after he calmed down, he was

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

was our leader, and we

of seconds of silence

Map?" Wester asked. "It appeared in a

Lightning Emperor said. "I totally

we only give them access

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

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 can live for barely a millennium. I

do you think the book came from,

the Lightning Emperor said. "She lost quite a few books in her

Wester asked. "You couldn't

invented 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

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

nodded. "Then, I wish you

as the book he was