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

something that no one could

Whirlwind a seat on

Kingdom was rich with High Mages

Duke, but only very few for being a member of the

move, they extended an olive branch

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

vast amount of authority over

would also represent the stagnation

Storm Eagle Zone still acted as

frontlines yet, and if they found one of the warriors, they would be forced to fight for the

except for the Storm

Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe haven

did Jerald do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

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

Council was stuck in limbo. However, they would

war calmed down, they would take care

relationship between the Council

the Council even sent out a

it was phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like

oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even look

the Council, but unofficially, he had

the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were

Council or another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle

pass the border anyway since he was delivering

executed on

that, public outrage occurred, fueled

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter and

Storm Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards

the Council still didn't dare to

High Mages, and they couldn't afford

to wait until after the war

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

as proof that they were the reasonable ones and

not helping the Kingdom but

selfish, and had no concept

react

of the people living in the Storm Eagle Zone

most of these

looked at the Mages, one would see that over 90%

True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now

and Apprentices had nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly related to the 15

up for what they believed in. Some of them wanted to remain, but when faced with

three High Mages left