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 eyebrow

of his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the Grand

confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him his life.

us in anger to never allow another Emperor from any other Path to

world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which was his very reason for going this far in the first

worse back then.

the Abominations diminished to the pitiful

last decree, I think everyone went a bit overboard," the

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

not "a

never told me,"

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

hidden King might become an

in the other

Path were left, and since everyone heard Lucius' decree, they burned all the inheritances they

bit bad about the other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not allow a small resurgence?" the Lightning Emperor

God? After

shouted or ordered something in anger

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

but after he calmed down, he was always

grew distant as

and we

of seconds

"It appeared in a Development Area, and its

Emperor said. "I totally forgot the

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

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

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

a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth Realm can live for

nodded. "Where do you think the book came from,

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

about the Mage?" Wester asked. "You

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

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

I wish you a

Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the