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.

extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages

years later, the Council did something

offered Duke Whirlwind a

was rich with High Mages but poor with truly

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

this move, they extended an

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

vast amount of authority over the entire

would also represent the stagnation of

first place, and the Storm

for warriors that hadn't been on the frontlines yet, and if they

for the Storm

if Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe haven

Jerald do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

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

that, the Council was stuck in limbo.

they would

between the Council

a decree that people should avoid the Storm

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

was one of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even look eye-to-eye with

Jerald was below the Council, but unofficially, he had

Zone had quintupled in size. There were even two True Path Stage warriors and a High Mage

Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone,

a messenger tried to pass the border anyway since he was delivering orders from the

was executed on

after that, public outrage occurred, fueled by

Duke Whirlwind

Storm Eagle Zone was made illegal,

Council still didn't

Mages, and they couldn't afford these

wait until

the Council sent several people to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to the

reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind

time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom

was power-hungry, selfish, and had

didn't react to

50% of

more, most of these people

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

the Storm Eagle

Adepts and

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

High Mages left in the Storm Eagle Zone, including