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

Council did something that no one could

Duke Whirlwind a seat on the

Skythunder Kingdom was rich with High Mages but poor

for being a Duke, but only very few

extended an olive branch

would be swept under the rug, and he could

vast amount

this would also represent the

warriors in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as

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

for the

the invitation, that

did Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

more invitations, but Jerald always blew them off, telling

Council was stuck in

they would take

the relationship between the Council and Jerald had

passed, the Council even sent out a decree

because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted

one of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even look

Jerald was below the Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing them

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

tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would

pass the border anyway since he was delivering orders from the

messenger was executed

after that, public outrage occurred,

Whirlwind

Eagle Zone was made illegal,

still

actually attacked, they would lose many High Mages, and

until after the war was

give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the

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

not helping the Kingdom but putting its citizens in even more

power-hungry, selfish, and had

didn't react

many people believed the Council, and over 50% of the

more, most of these people

that

terms of True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had only around 15

nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly

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

left