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.

victims of extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High

something that

Duke Whirlwind a seat on

with High Mages but poor with

for being a Duke, but

extended an olive branch to

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

a vast amount of authority over the

also represent the stagnation

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

frontlines

everywhere except for

if Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe haven

do when the

He didn't answer.

three more invitations, but Jerald always blew them

Council was stuck in limbo.

calmed down, they would take care

now, the relationship between the Council and Jerald had become

Council even sent out a decree that people

like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most

most powerful Dukes, and he could probably

the Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing

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

to enter the Storm

the border anyway since he was delivering

messenger was executed on

that, public outrage occurred, fueled

Whirlwind

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

Council still didn't dare to

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

wait until

give the land he illegally occupied back to the

used these incidents as proof that they were the reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to let things end

time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping

selfish, and had no

didn't react to

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

of these people were

at the Mages, one would see that over

Storm Eagle Zone now had only around 15

and Apprentices had nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly

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

High Mages left in the Storm