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.

extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at the

the Council did something that no one

Whirlwind a seat on

High Mages but poor with truly

but only very few for being a

move, they extended an olive branch to

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

a vast amount of authority

represent

and the Storm

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

for

invitation, that safe

Jerald do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

invitations, but Jerald always blew them off,

the Council was stuck in limbo.

the war calmed down, they would take care

now, the relationship between the Council and Jerald had become

even sent out a decree that people should avoid the

running his Zone like they

one of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he

had assumed a position opposing them at

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

to enter

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

executed on the

that, public outrage occurred,

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter and

Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards

Council still didn't dare

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

to wait until

illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers were always

as proof that they were the reasonable ones and that

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

was power-hungry, selfish, and

react to these

believed the Council, and over 50% of the people living in the Storm Eagle Zone

more, most of these

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

Storm Eagle

vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly

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

left in the Storm Eagle Zone, including