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.

been the victims of extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at the same

Council did something

Whirlwind a seat on

Kingdom was rich with High Mages but poor with

plenty of candidates for being a Duke, but only very few for being a member of

extended

swept under the rug, and he could join the Council

vast amount of authority over the entire

also represent

even so many powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as

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

were everywhere except for the

invitation, that safe haven

do when the

He didn't answer.

more invitations, but Jerald always blew them off, telling them that

that, the Council was stuck in limbo. However, they

calmed down, they would

the Council and Jerald had become

the Council even sent out a decree that people should avoid the Storm

phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most people had already seen

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

the Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing them at the same

of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were even two True Path Stage warriors and a High

enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would be dissuaded in a very rough

the border anyway since he was delivering orders

executed on

that, public outrage occurred, fueled by

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter

illegal, and powerful guards were stationed at its

Council still didn't dare

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

to wait until after

the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers were always turned away at

they were the reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to let things end

helping the

and had no concept

didn't react to these

over 50% of the

most of these people were

Mages, one would see that

of True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had

nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly related to the 15 True

difference in the war, which was why they couldn't stand up for what they believed in. Some of them

Mages left in