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.

with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at

the Council did something that no one

a seat on

was rich with High Mages but

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

move, they extended an olive

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

vast amount

represent

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

frontlines yet, and if they found one of the warriors, they would be forced to fight for

everywhere except for the Storm Eagle

Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe haven would

do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

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

stuck in limbo.

down, they would

the relationship between the Council

Council even sent out a decree that people should

the surface, it was phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted

Dukes, and he could probably even look eye-to-eye with

below the Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a

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

orders of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle

pass the border anyway since he was delivering orders from

was executed on the

after that, public outrage occurred, fueled by the

Duke Whirlwind a deserter and

was made illegal, and powerful guards were

Council still

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

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 messengers were always turned

ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to let

helping the

and had no concept

didn't react

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

of these people were

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

Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone

Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly related to the 15 True

in the war, which was why they couldn't stand up for what they believed in. Some of them wanted to

three High Mages left in the Storm Eagle