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.

with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at

did something that no one could have seen

offered Duke Whirlwind a seat on

with High Mages but poor with truly powerful

but only very few for

this move, they extended

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

gain a vast amount of authority over the entire

this would also represent the

Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven for all the warriors that didn't want to join the

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

everywhere except for

Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe haven

Jerald do

He didn't answer.

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

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

they would take

the Council and

passed, the Council even sent out a decree that people should

surface, 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 eye-to-eye

Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a

of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in

tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they

border anyway since he

executed on the

that, public outrage occurred, fueled by

Duke Whirlwind

illegal, and powerful guards were stationed at

Council still didn't dare to

High Mages, and they

until after the war

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

were the reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to let things end

Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but

was power-hungry, selfish, and had no concept of

react to

believed the Council, and over 50% of the

most of these

see that over 90% of them had left the Storm

Storm Eagle Zone now had only around 15

nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly

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 the Council's overwhelming power, they could only

three High Mages left in the Storm Eagle Zone, including