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

something that no

offered Duke Whirlwind a seat on

with High Mages

were plenty of candidates for being a Duke, but only

extended an olive

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

gain a vast amount of authority

represent

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

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

were everywhere except for the Storm

accepted the invitation, that safe haven would

did Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

invitations, but Jerald always blew them off, telling

the Council was stuck in limbo. However, they would never forget

calmed down, they

relationship between the Council and Jerald had

sent out a decree that people should avoid

running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most people had already

Dukes, and he could probably even look

he had

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

Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle

border anyway since he was delivering orders from the Council

messenger was executed

outrage occurred, fueled

Duke Whirlwind

Zone was made illegal, and

still didn't dare to

actually attacked, they would lose many High Mages,

had to wait until after

Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back

the reasonable ones and

was not helping the Kingdom but

and had no concept

didn't react to

and over 50% of the

most of these

see that over

Storm Eagle Zone now had

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

in the war, which was why they couldn't stand up for what they believed in. Some of them

High Mages left in the Storm