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.

had been the victims of extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly

Council did something that no one could

a seat on

Mages but poor with truly powerful High

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

move, they extended an olive

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

a vast amount of

this would also represent the

the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a

that hadn't been on the frontlines yet, and if they found one of the

everywhere except for the Storm

invitation, that safe haven

Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

more invitations, but Jerald always blew them

stuck in limbo. However,

they

relationship between the Council and Jerald had become

out a decree that people

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

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

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

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

orders of the Council or another Duke tried to enter

border anyway since he was delivering orders from

executed on

that, public outrage occurred, fueled by

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter and

made illegal,

still didn't dare

attacked, they would lose many High Mages, and they couldn't afford

had to wait until after

demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but

used these incidents as proof that they were the reasonable ones

such a dangerous time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but putting its citizens in even more

and had no concept of

react to these

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

more, most of these people were

one would see that over 90% of them had

Eagle Zone

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

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

there were three High Mages left in the Storm