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 in

bit in embarrassment and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, you see, when Lucius defeated the

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

after winning, he ordered us in anger to never allow another Emperor from any other Path

our world. You know, he wanted to fix the issue with the Abominations, which was his very

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

the Abominations diminished to the pitiful annoyance

everyone went a bit overboard,"

thought about the ridiculous weak other Paths and

not "a bit"

never told me," Wester

laughed 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

King might become an Emperor. So, we

interested in the other Kings' and Lords' possessions, and the Mage Lords were interested in the possessions

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

Paths losing all their inheritances. So,

current situation suit the Mage God? After all, he ordered that no other Emperors are allowed to

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

same way if he remained in this world for longer. He probably would have said that we didn't need

on a killing spree, but after he calmed down, he was always

Emperor's eyes grew distant as

leader, and we

of seconds of

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

"I totally forgot the

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

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

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

the Lightning Emperor grinned a bit. "Also, I only need to wait a bit until he

"Where do you

her lifetime.

Wester asked. "You couldn't

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 thought

to hunt someone down just because they entered one of our

I wish you a pleasant

you too, Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the book he was