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

did something that no

offered Duke Whirlwind a seat on the

rich with High Mages but poor with truly powerful

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

this move, they extended an olive branch

under the rug, and he could join the Council as a

gain a vast amount of

also represent

there were even so many powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm

across the entire Kingdom, searching for warriors that hadn't been on the frontlines yet, and if they found

except for the

Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe haven

Jerald do when

He didn't answer.

Council sent three more invitations, but Jerald always blew them off,

was stuck in

down, they

relationship between the Council

out a decree that

his Zone like they wanted him to, but most people

powerful Dukes, and he could probably even

unofficially, he had assumed a

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

Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would

to pass the border anyway since he was

was executed on

after that, public outrage occurred, fueled by

Duke Whirlwind a deserter and

Eagle Zone was made illegal,

still didn't dare

many High Mages, and

wait until after the war was

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

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

Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but

selfish, and had no

didn't react

people believed the Council, and over 50% of

more, most of these people were

Mages, one would see that over 90% of them

the Storm Eagle Zone now

and Apprentices directly related

in the war, which was why they couldn't stand up for

High Mages left in the Storm Eagle Zone,