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.

several exceedingly powerful

Council did something that no one could

Duke Whirlwind a seat on

was rich with High Mages but poor with

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

move, they extended an olive branch

under the rug, and he could join the Council as

amount of

would also represent the stagnation of

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

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

were everywhere except for

Jerald accepted the invitation, that safe

Jerald do

He didn't answer.

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

of that, the Council was stuck in limbo. However, they would never

down, they would take care

between the Council and Jerald

passed, the Council even sent out a decree that people should avoid the

phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his

one of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even look eye-to-eye with

Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a

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

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

to pass the border anyway since he was delivering orders from the Council

executed

after that, public outrage

Duke Whirlwind a deserter and

Storm Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful

the Council still didn't dare to

actually attacked, they would lose many High Mages, and they couldn't

to wait until after

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

were the reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused to let things

time, Duke Whirlwind was not helping the Kingdom but putting its citizens in even more

was power-hungry, selfish, and had no concept of

didn't react to

of

more, most of these

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

of True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had

vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly related

stand up for what they believed in. Some of them wanted to remain, but when faced with the Council's overwhelming power,

were three High Mages left in the Storm Eagle Zone, including