Sword God in a World of Magic

The world continued to change as more years passed.

Shang kept being isolated from the world, only hearing some news from Jerald.

Jerald's jovial and polite demeanor had vanished to a large degree after even his son had died.

Around 60 years ago, Jerald had been friends with basically all the different Dukes, had been on good terms with the Council, had George as a close friend, and had a son.

He had been at the prime of his life, and he had even owned quite a lot of Zones.

Everything had been going great.

And then, over the next 60 years, everything he owned began to vanish slowly.

He still had his personal power and wealth, but that was about it.

He only had one Zone now.

He was enemies with the Council.

He was enemies with all the Dukes.

George was dead.

Mattheo was dead.

Some of his close subordinates were dead.

And, worst of all, he knew who was responsible, but just like Shang, there was nothing he could do at the moment.

He could only swallow it until it was time.

Jerald's goal of becoming King had shifted.

Now, vengeance was above his goal of becoming King.

He wanted to kill all the people that had taken everything from him!

And the key to all of that was the weak little boy he had found inside one of his gardens around 60 years ago.

As more years passed, it became harder and harder for Jerald to keep up the mask.

At some point, he even started to completely ignore all the orders the Council sent to him.

This was already a grave violation of his position, and it was enough reason for the Council to take the Storm Eagle Zone away from him.

Yet, the war and impending civil war were the primary focus of the Council's mind. They couldn't afford to anger another Late High Mage with incredible power.

In fact, the situation was so bad that even two of the members of the Council had died on the frontlines.

of extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking

Council did something that no one could have seen

Duke Whirlwind a seat on the

rich with High Mages but

of candidates for being a Duke, but only very

they extended an olive branch to

the rug, and

amount of authority over

would also represent the stagnation

the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven for

Kingdom, searching for warriors that hadn't been on the frontlines yet, and if they found one of the warriors, they would

everywhere except for the Storm Eagle

Jerald accepted the invitation, that

do when

He didn't answer.

always blew them

the Council was stuck in

the war calmed down, they would take

now, the relationship between the Council and Jerald had

passed, the Council even sent out a decree that people should

his Zone like they

of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even

he had assumed a position opposing them at the

stationed at the borders of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There

orders of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the

tried to pass the border anyway

was executed on the

outrage occurred, fueled by

Duke Whirlwind

made illegal,

Council still didn't

High Mages, and they couldn't afford these losses during this intense

to wait until after the

sent several people to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers were always turned away at the

incidents as proof that they were the reasonable ones and that it

time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but

and had no

didn't react to

Council, and over 50% of the people living

most of these

one only looked at the Mages, one would see that over 90% of them had

Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had only around 15

nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and

stand up for what they believed in. Some of them wanted to remain, but when faced with the Council's overwhelming power, they could only

least there were three High Mages left in the Storm Eagle