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

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

absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him his life. He had severely underestimated the Grand

anger to never

wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which was his very reason

Abominations was far worse back then. We even

of the Abominations

decree, I think everyone went a bit overboard," the Lightning Emperor

weak other Paths and called the Lightning Emperor's words

not "a

never told

only told us to stop other Emperors from

might become an Emperor. So,

on their own. The Mage Kings were interested in the other Kings' and Lords' possessions, and the Mage Lords were interested in

only the weakest people of every Path were left, and since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned all the inheritances they found to show their

feel a bit bad about the other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not

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

he shouted or ordered

said that we didn't need to be this brutal and that we

spree, but after he calmed down, he was always embarrassed about his actions.

Emperor's eyes grew distant as a content smile

leader, and we would have followed

seconds of silence

asked. "It appeared in a Development Area, and

right," the Lightning Emperor said. "I totally forgot the reason why you

well. Of course, we only give them access to the one for True Mages.

to Wester, who looked at it with furrowed brows.

the Lightning 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.

book and nodded. "Where do you

probably Mirana's copy," the Lightning Emperor said. "She lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably got sold

Mage?" Wester asked.

refreshing to get surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do anything wrong. They just

no reason to hunt someone down just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a technique. We don't need

"Then, I wish you a pleasant evening,

too, Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the book