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 Lucius defeated the Grand Master

fight with absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him his

to never allow another Emperor from any

world. You know, he wanted to fix

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

the Abominations diminished to the pitiful

think everyone went a bit overboard," the

about the ridiculous weak other Paths and called the Lightning Emperor's

was not "a

told me," Wester

Lucius only told us to

that some hidden King might become an Emperor. So,

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

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

about the other Paths losing all their inheritances.

Mage God? After

count the times he shouted or ordered something in anger

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

Lucius was angry, he could go on a killing spree, but after he calmed down, he was

as a content smile appeared on

was our leader, and

couple of seconds of silence

Wester asked. "It appeared in a Development Area,

Emperor said. "I totally forgot the

Of course, we only give them access to the one for

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

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

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

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

few books in her lifetime. This one probably got sold somewhere as an oddity, and

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

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 someone a technique they thought

of our Development Areas and gave

nodded. "Then, I wish you a pleasant evening,

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