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

the Council did something

Whirlwind a seat on

Kingdom was rich with High Mages

plenty of candidates for being a Duke, but only very

extended an

would be swept under the rug,

gain a vast amount of authority

would also represent the stagnation of

in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven for all the warriors that didn't want to join the

hadn't been on the frontlines

everywhere except for the

if Jerald accepted the invitation,

do

He didn't answer.

Jerald always blew them off,

in limbo. However, they would

calmed down, they would take care of

now, the relationship between the Council and Jerald had become

passed, the Council even sent out a

Jerald wasn't running his Zone like

of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and

Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing

quintupled in size. There were even two True Path Stage warriors and

of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone,

anyway since

was executed on the

public outrage occurred, fueled by

called Duke Whirlwind

was made illegal, and powerful guards were

Council still

many High Mages,

to wait until after the war

land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder

incidents as proof that they were the reasonable ones and that it was

dangerous time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom

and

react

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

most of

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

Eagle Zone now had only around 15

Essentially only Adepts and

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

Mages left in the Storm Eagle Zone, including