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.

traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at the same

later, the Council did something that no one could have seen

Duke Whirlwind a seat on

was rich with High Mages but poor with truly powerful

but only very few for being a member of the

this move, they extended

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

vast amount

also represent

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

the frontlines yet, and if they found one of the

everywhere except for the

if Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe haven

do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

blew them off, telling them that he needed more time

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

the war calmed down, they

the relationship between the Council

a decree that

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

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

but unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing

the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size.

anyone under orders of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the

border anyway since he was delivering

messenger was executed on the

outrage occurred, fueled by the

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter

Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards were

Council still

many High Mages, and they

to wait until after the war

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

that they were the reasonable ones and that it was

Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but putting its

was power-hungry, selfish, and had no concept of

didn't react to these

Council, and over 50% of the people living in

of these people were

at the Mages, one would see that over 90%

the Storm Eagle Zone

Apprentices had nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices

stand up for what they

left in the