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.

traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages

did something that no one could have seen

Duke Whirlwind a seat on

Skythunder Kingdom was rich with High Mages but poor

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

move, they extended an olive branch

the rug,

amount of

would also represent the stagnation of

reason why there 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

several Circles traveling across the 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 fight for the

were everywhere except for the Storm Eagle

the invitation, that

did Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

them off,

was stuck in limbo. However, they would never

calmed down, they would take care of

relationship between the Council and Jerald

more time passed, the Council even sent out a decree that people should avoid

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

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

Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a position

years later, the guards stationed at the borders of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were

of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the

tried to pass the border anyway since he was delivering orders

messenger was executed on the

public outrage occurred, fueled by the

Whirlwind a deserter

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

still didn't dare

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

wait until after the war was

to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back

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

a dangerous time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but putting its citizens

and had no concept of

react to

50% of the people living in the Storm Eagle Zone

more, most of these

at the Mages, one would see that over

Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had only around

nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly

which was why they couldn't stand up for what they believed in. Some of

Mages left