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.

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

later, the Council did something that

Whirlwind a seat on

Mages but poor with truly powerful High

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

this move, they extended an

conduct would be swept under the rug, and he could join

a vast amount of authority over the

would also represent the stagnation

Storm Eagle Zone

several Circles traveling across the entire Kingdom, searching for warriors that hadn't been on the frontlines yet,

except for

accepted the invitation,

do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

sent three more invitations, but Jerald always blew them off, telling them that he needed more time

of that, the Council was stuck in

war calmed down, they would take

relationship between the Council

out a decree that people should avoid the

it was phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone

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

Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a position

Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were even two True Path Stage

enter the Storm

the border anyway since he was

messenger was executed on the

that, public outrage occurred, fueled by the

Whirlwind

Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards were stationed at

the Council still didn't

lose many High Mages, and they couldn't afford

had to wait until after

several people to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers

these incidents as proof that they were the reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to let

Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but putting its

power-hungry, selfish, and had

react

the Council, and over 50% of the people

of

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

terms of True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone

Adepts and Apprentices directly related to the 15

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

three High Mages left in