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 Mages attacking them at

something that no one

a

was rich with High Mages but poor with truly powerful

candidates for being a Duke, but only very few

move, they extended an olive branch

past conduct would be swept under the

gain a vast amount of authority over the

would also represent the stagnation

reason why there were even so 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

were 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

invitation, that safe haven

do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

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

stuck in limbo. However,

down, they would take care of

the relationship between the Council and Jerald had become

the Council even sent out a decree that people should avoid the Storm

because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to,

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

below the Council, but unofficially, he had

had quintupled in size. There were

enter the

tried to pass the border anyway

was executed

after that, public outrage occurred, fueled by the

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter

illegal, and powerful guards were

Council still didn't dare

lose many High Mages, and they couldn't afford

wait until after the

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

the reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind

helping the Kingdom but putting its citizens

power-hungry, selfish, and had no

react to

over 50% of the people living in

of these people were

looked at the Mages, one would see that over

Eagle Zone now

and Apprentices directly related to the 15

were 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

there were three High Mages left in the