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

Council did something that no one

Whirlwind a seat

Skythunder Kingdom was rich with High Mages but poor with truly

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

this move, they extended an olive branch

conduct would be swept under the rug, and he could

vast amount

also represent

even so many powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm

hadn't been on the frontlines yet, and

for the Storm

if Jerald accepted the invitation, that

do when the

He didn't answer.

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

in limbo. However, they would never forget this

down, they would take

between the Council and Jerald had become

out a

his Zone

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

but unofficially, he had assumed a

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

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

border anyway since he was delivering orders from the

was executed on the

public outrage occurred, fueled by the

Duke Whirlwind a deserter

illegal, and powerful guards were stationed at its

the Council still didn't

High Mages, and they couldn't afford these losses during

until after the

illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers were always turned away

they were the reasonable ones and that it was

was not helping the Kingdom but putting its

and had no concept

react to

Council, and over 50% of the people living in the Storm Eagle

of these

see that over 90% of them had left the

terms of True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had only

only Adepts and Apprentices directly related to the

not 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 remain, but when faced with the Council's

three High Mages left in the Storm