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 High Mages attacking them at the same

later, the Council did something

a

was rich with High Mages but poor with

for being a Duke, but only

they extended an

Jerald's past conduct would be swept under the rug, and he could join the

gain a vast amount of authority over

represent

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

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

were everywhere except for

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, telling them

Council was stuck in limbo. However, they would

calmed down, they would take

the relationship between the Council and Jerald

a decree that people should

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

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

the Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a

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

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

messenger tried to pass the border anyway since he was delivering orders from

executed on the

public outrage

Whirlwind a deserter and

the Storm Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards

still didn't

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

wait until after the war was

people to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the

reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused

was not helping the Kingdom but

power-hungry, selfish, and

react

the Council, and over 50% of

most of these people were

only looked at the Mages, one would see that over

Eagle Zone now had only around

only Adepts and Apprentices directly related to the

difference 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 with the Council's overwhelming power, they could only

least there were three High Mages left in the Storm