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

did something that no one

offered Duke Whirlwind a seat on the

Kingdom was rich with High Mages but

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

they extended an olive

essentially meant that Jerald's past conduct would be swept under the rug, and he could join the

vast amount

also represent the stagnation

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

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,

for

accepted the invitation, that safe

Jerald do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

always blew them off, telling them that he needed more

of that, the Council was stuck in limbo.

they would take care

between the

the Council even sent out a decree that people

his Zone like they wanted him to, but most people had already seen

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

unofficially, he had

years later, the guards stationed at the borders of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were even

tried to enter the

border anyway since he was

executed

after that, public outrage occurred, fueled by

called Duke Whirlwind a

Storm Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards were

still didn't dare to

attacked, they would lose many High Mages, and they couldn't afford these losses during

wait until after

give the land he illegally occupied back to the

they were the reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that

Duke Whirlwind was not helping

was power-hungry, selfish, and

react to these

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

of these people were

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

the Storm Eagle Zone now had

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

a difference in the war, which was why they couldn't stand up for what they believed in. Some of them wanted to remain, but when faced with the Council's

three High Mages left in