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

and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the Grand Master of Weapons,

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

to never allow another Emperor from any other Path to

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 for going this far

of the Abominations was far worse back then.

Lucius left, the threat of the Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance

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

ridiculous weak other Paths and called the Lightning

was not

told me," Wester

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

an Emperor. So, we killed all the Kings and their

in the other Kings'

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.

the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no other Emperors are

heated fellow. I can't count the times he shouted or ordered something in anger just to apologize to

for longer. He probably would have said that we

Lucius was angry, he could go on a killing spree, but after he calmed down, he was always embarrassed about his actions. He was a

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

and

of seconds of silence

in

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

access

over to Wester, who looked at it with furrowed

this ancient book found its way to a young warrior. I think

need to wait a bit until he dies. Someone in the Fourth Realm can live for barely a millennium. I can wait

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

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

the Mage?" Wester

the Lightning 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 gave someone a technique

they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone

"Then, I wish

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