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.

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

did something that

offered Duke Whirlwind a

with High Mages but

plenty of candidates for being a Duke, but only very

they extended an

would be swept under the rug, and he could join the Council as a

would gain a vast amount of authority

this would also represent

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

several Circles traveling 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

except for the Storm Eagle

Jerald accepted the invitation,

do

He didn't answer.

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

in limbo. However, they would never forget this

down, they

between the Council

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

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

was one of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and

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

Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in

the Council or another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would

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

executed on

that, public outrage occurred, fueled by

Duke Whirlwind a

Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards were stationed

the Council still didn't dare to

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

to wait until after

Council sent several people to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers

incidents as proof that they were the reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to let

helping the Kingdom but putting its citizens in even

and

didn't react to these

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

of these people

that over 90% of them

the Storm Eagle Zone now

had nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly

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 overwhelming power,

left in the Storm Eagle Zone,