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

something that no one

Whirlwind a seat on

with High Mages but poor

but only very few for

they extended an

swept under the

gain a vast amount of authority over

represent the

powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still

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

except for the Storm

the invitation, that safe

Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

invitations, but Jerald always blew them off, telling

Council was stuck in limbo. However, they

calmed down, they

now, the relationship between the Council and Jerald

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

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

of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even look eye-to-eye

he had assumed a position

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

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

the border anyway since he was delivering orders

was executed on

public outrage occurred,

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter

was made illegal, and

Council still didn't dare to

they actually attacked, they would lose many High Mages, and

wait until after the war

the Council sent several people to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the

reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to

Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but putting its

power-hungry, selfish, and had no concept of

didn't react to

50% of the people living in the Storm Eagle Zone left

more, most of these

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

Eagle

and Apprentices directly related to the 15 True

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 power, they

Mages left in the Storm