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

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

nearly cost him

he ordered us in anger to never

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

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

left, the threat of the Abominations

decree, I think everyone went a

ridiculous weak other Paths and called the

was not "a

never told me," Wester

it's kind of embarrassing. Lucius only told us to stop other Emperors from rising, but things turned out

might become an Emperor. So,

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

were left, and since everyone heard Lucius' decree,

bit bad about the other Paths losing all their inheritances. So, why not allow a

Mage God? After all, he

Emperor chuckled 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

have said that we didn't need to be this brutal

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

eyes grew distant as a content smile appeared

and we would

couple of seconds of

in a Development

totally forgot the reason why you even came

introduce our Star Map to them as well. Of course, we only give them access to the one for

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

book found its way to a young warrior. I think

to wait a bit until he dies. Someone

book and nodded. "Where do you think

probably Mirana's copy," the Lightning Emperor said. "She lost quite a few books in her lifetime. This one probably got sold

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

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

someone down just because they entered one of our Development Areas and gave someone a technique. We don't need to

I wish you a

Wester," the Lightning Emperor said as the book he was reading before Wester's arrival