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

Council did something that no one

Whirlwind a seat

was rich with High Mages but poor with

plenty of candidates for being a Duke, but only

this move, they extended

swept under the

a vast amount

would also represent the stagnation of

reason why there were even so many powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone

several Circles traveling across the entire Kingdom, searching for warriors that hadn't been on the frontlines yet, and if they found one of the warriors, they would be

for the Storm

accepted the invitation, that

did Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

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

of that, the Council was stuck in limbo. However, they would never

calmed down, they would take care

the Council and Jerald had become

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

like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most

and most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even look eye-to-eye with the

had assumed a position opposing them at the

later, the guards stationed at the borders of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were even two True Path Stage warriors and a High Mage standing

to enter the Storm Eagle

border anyway since he was delivering orders from

executed on

outrage occurred, fueled by

Whirlwind a deserter and

Eagle Zone was made illegal, and

the Council still

they actually attacked, they would lose many High Mages,

until after the

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

the reasonable ones and that it was Duke

dangerous time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the

and had no concept

react to these

many people believed the Council, and over 50% of the people living

most of these people were

at the Mages, one would see that over 90% of them had left the Storm

Eagle Zone

Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly

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

left