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.

extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at

Council did something that no one could

a seat

Kingdom was rich with High Mages but poor with truly powerful High

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

extended

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

amount of authority

would also represent the stagnation of

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

warriors that hadn't been on the frontlines yet, and

were everywhere except for the Storm Eagle

Jerald accepted the invitation, that

did Jerald do when

He didn't answer.

Jerald always blew them off, telling

stuck in limbo. However, they would never

the war calmed down, they would take care of

the relationship between the

a decree

wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most

Dukes, and he

the Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing

Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were

orders of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would be dissuaded in a very rough

tried to pass the border anyway since he was delivering

messenger was executed on

after that, public outrage occurred, fueled by the

Whirlwind a deserter

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

Council still didn't dare to

High Mages, and they couldn't afford these losses during this

until

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

were the reasonable ones and that it

time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom

selfish, and had

didn't react to

Council, and over 50% of

of these people were

the Mages, one would see that

Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had only around

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

which was why they couldn't stand up for what they believed in. Some of them wanted to remain,

least there were three High Mages left in the Storm Eagle Zone,