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.

the victims of extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High

Council did something that no

Whirlwind a seat on the

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

for being a Duke, but only very few for being a member of

they extended an olive

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

gain a vast amount of authority over the entire

this would also represent

and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe

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

for the Storm

accepted the invitation, that safe haven

Jerald do

He didn't answer.

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

in limbo. However, they would never forget

war calmed down, they would take care of

between the

time passed, the Council even sent out a

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

Dukes, and he could

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

the guards stationed at the borders of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in

under orders of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the

a messenger tried to pass the border anyway

messenger was executed on the

after that, public outrage occurred,

called Duke Whirlwind

was made illegal, and

Council still didn't dare

they actually attacked, they would lose many High Mages, and they couldn't afford

wait until after the

he illegally occupied back to the

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

helping the Kingdom but putting its

power-hungry, selfish, and had no

react to

50% of the people living in the

most of these

would see that over 90% of them had left the Storm Eagle

Eagle

nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and

not powerful enough to make a difference in the war, which was why they couldn't stand up for what they believed in. Some

three High Mages left in the