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.

several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at

did something that no one could have seen

Whirlwind a seat

Kingdom was rich with High Mages but

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

this move, they extended an olive branch

swept under the rug, and he could join the Council

would gain a vast amount of authority over the entire

would also represent the stagnation

were even so many powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven for all the warriors that didn't want

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

for the

if Jerald accepted the invitation, that

do when the

He didn't answer.

always blew them off,

Council was stuck in limbo. However, they would

the war calmed down, they would take care of

now, the relationship between the Council and Jerald

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

an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone

most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even

had assumed a

the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were even two True Path Stage warriors and a High

another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would be dissuaded in a

anyway since he was delivering orders from the

messenger was executed on

public outrage occurred, fueled

Whirlwind a

was made illegal, and powerful guards were

Council still didn't

many High Mages,

until

the Council sent several people to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally

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

helping the Kingdom but putting its citizens in even more

selfish, and had

didn't react

and over 50% of the people living in the Storm

most of these people were

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

the Storm Eagle Zone now had only around

and Apprentices

for what they believed in. Some of them wanted to remain,

least there were three High Mages left in