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

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

absolute confidence, but his overconfidence nearly cost him his

ordered us in anger to never allow

opponent, he quickly focused on achieving his goal and left our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which was his very reason

then. We even saw some King Abominations from time to

of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance it is

his last decree, I think everyone went a bit overboard," the Lightning Emperor said with an

weak other Paths and called

not

told me,"

Emperor laughed with embarrassment again. "I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other

King might become an Emperor. So, we killed

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

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

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

asked. "Wouldn't the current situation suit the Mage God? After all, he ordered that

bit. "Lucius was a very heated fellow. I can't count the times he shouted or ordered something in anger

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

spree, but after he calmed down, he was

eyes grew distant as a content

was our leader, and we would have followed

seconds of silence

about the Star Map?" Wester asked. "It appeared in a Development Area, and

the Lightning Emperor said. "I totally forgot

them access to the one for True Mages. We don't want to go overboard," the Lightning Emperor

who looked at it with furrowed

Emperor said. "Somehow, this ancient book found its way

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

the book and nodded. "Where do you

in her

Mage?" Wester asked. "You

surprised like this. Additionally, they didn't exactly do anything wrong. They just gave someone a technique they

entered one of our Development Areas

I wish you a pleasant

Lightning Emperor said as the book he was