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

later, the Council did something that no one could have

a

rich with High Mages but poor

plenty of candidates for being a Duke, but only

they extended an olive branch to

past conduct would be swept under the rug, and he could join

amount

represent the

reason why there were even so many powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a

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 be forced to fight for the

for the Storm Eagle

if Jerald accepted the invitation,

do when

He didn't answer.

Jerald always blew them off, telling them that he

stuck in limbo. However, they would never forget this

down, they would take

relationship between the Council

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

surface, it was phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most people had already seen

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

unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing them at

at the borders of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size.

tried to enter

time, a messenger tried to pass the border anyway since he

executed on

after that, public outrage occurred,

Whirlwind a deserter

the Storm Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards were

still didn't

attacked, they would lose many High Mages, and they couldn't afford these losses during this intense

to wait until after the

Council sent several people 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

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

such a dangerous time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but putting

and had no concept

didn't react to these

of the people living in the Storm

most of these people were

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

Eagle

and Apprentices directly related to the 15

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

were three High Mages left in the Storm Eagle Zone,