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.

with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at

years later, the Council did something that no

Duke Whirlwind a seat on

Kingdom was rich with High Mages but poor with truly powerful

Duke, but only

they extended an olive

be swept under the rug, and he

vast amount

this would also represent

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

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 forced to fight for the

for the

Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe

Jerald do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

blew them off, telling them that he

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

they would take

relationship between the Council

passed, the Council even sent out a decree that people should avoid

Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most people had already

and most powerful Dukes, and he could

had assumed a position opposing them

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

anyone under orders of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would be dissuaded in a

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

executed

outrage occurred, fueled by the

called Duke Whirlwind

made illegal,

Council still didn't dare

they would lose many High Mages,

until after

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

used these incidents as proof that they were the reasonable ones

a dangerous time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but

and had

didn't react to these

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

most of

Mages, one would see that over 90%

Eagle Zone now had

only Adepts and

Apprentices were not powerful enough to make a difference in the war, which was why they couldn't stand up for what

were three High Mages left