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.

traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at the

years later, the Council did something that

Whirlwind a seat

with High Mages but poor with truly powerful

plenty of candidates for being a Duke, but only very few for

extended an olive branch to

essentially meant that Jerald's past conduct would be swept under the rug, and he could

amount

represent the stagnation

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

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

were everywhere except for

accepted the invitation, that safe haven

do when

He didn't answer.

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

the Council was stuck in limbo. However,

the war calmed down, they would

between the Council

Council even sent out a

wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most people had already seen the

the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and

he had assumed a position opposing

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

another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle

pass the border anyway since he was delivering orders

executed

that, public outrage

Whirlwind a

Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards were stationed

still didn't dare to

attacked, they would lose many High Mages, and they

had to wait until after the war was

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

reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to

helping

and

didn't react to these

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

most of

one would see that

Eagle

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

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

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