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.

been the victims of extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages

the Council did something

a seat on the

Mages but poor with truly powerful

being a Duke, but only very few for being a

this move, they extended

past conduct would be swept under the rug, and he could join the

a vast amount of authority

would also represent the stagnation of

the only reason why there were even so many powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven

the frontlines yet, and if they found one of the warriors, they would be

everywhere except for the

Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe

did Jerald do when

He didn't answer.

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

in limbo. However, they would never forget this

war calmed down, they

between the Council and Jerald

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

was phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like

one of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he could

had assumed a position opposing

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

to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would

time, a messenger tried to pass the border anyway since he was delivering orders

executed

after that, public outrage occurred, fueled by the

called Duke Whirlwind

made illegal, and powerful guards were stationed at its

Council still didn't dare to

would lose many High Mages, and

wait until after the war

to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers were always turned away

Council used these incidents as proof that they were the reasonable ones and that it

not helping the Kingdom but putting its citizens

power-hungry, selfish, and

didn't react

over 50% of the people

more, most of

the Mages, one would see that over

Storm Eagle Zone now had only around 15

Adepts and Apprentices directly related

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