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 the

years later, the Council did something

Whirlwind a seat

Skythunder Kingdom was rich with High Mages

a Duke, but

they extended

the rug, and

amount of authority over the entire

also represent the stagnation

the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven for

several Circles traveling across the entire Kingdom, searching for warriors that hadn't been on the frontlines yet,

were everywhere except for

invitation,

Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

invitations, but Jerald always blew them off, telling them

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

they would take care of

between the

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

was phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but

oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even

Jerald was below the Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing them at the same

quintupled in size. There were even

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

tried to pass the border anyway since he was delivering orders

executed on

public outrage

Whirlwind a

Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards were stationed at

still didn't

High Mages, and they couldn't afford these losses

until after the war was

to give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers were always turned away at

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

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

and

didn't react to these

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

most of

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

terms of True Mages, the Storm Eagle

had nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly

why they couldn't stand up for

least there were three High Mages left in the