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.

victims of extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at the same

years later, the Council did something that no

Duke Whirlwind a

with High Mages but poor with truly

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

move, they extended an olive

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

vast amount of authority over the

this would also represent the stagnation of

first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven for all the warriors that didn't want to join the

on the frontlines yet, and if they found one of the warriors, they would be

except for

Jerald accepted the invitation, that

do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

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

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

war calmed down, they would take

the Council and Jerald had become

a decree that

was phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most people had already seen the

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

he had assumed a position opposing

Eagle Zone had quintupled

orders of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the Storm

time, a messenger tried to pass the border anyway since he was delivering

executed on

after that, public outrage occurred, fueled by

Whirlwind

the Storm Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards

still

they actually attacked, they would lose many High Mages, and they couldn't afford

had to wait until after

give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers were

ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to

not helping the Kingdom

power-hungry, selfish, and had no

react to these

of the people living in the Storm

most of these people were

only looked at the Mages, one would see that

True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone

and Apprentices had nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly related to the 15 True Mages were

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

Mages left