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

years later, the Council did something

offered Duke Whirlwind a seat

rich with High Mages but

were plenty of candidates for being a Duke, but

they extended an olive branch

be swept under the

a vast amount of authority

also represent the stagnation

so many powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven

the entire Kingdom, searching for warriors that hadn't been on the frontlines yet, and if they found one of the warriors, they

for

invitation, that safe haven would

Jerald do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

Jerald always blew them off, telling them that he

stuck in limbo. However, they would never forget this

calmed down, they would

between the Council and Jerald had become

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

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

of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and

unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing them at the

the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were even two True Path Stage warriors and

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

to pass the border anyway

was executed on the

outrage occurred, fueled by

Duke Whirlwind a deserter

the Storm Eagle Zone was made illegal, and

Council still didn't dare to

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

had to wait until

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

were the reasonable ones and that

Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but

selfish, and had

didn't react

and over 50% of the people living in the Storm

more, most of these

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

the Storm Eagle

vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly related to

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 overwhelming power, they could

left in the