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

did something that no one could have seen

Duke Whirlwind a

was rich with High Mages but

but only very few for being a member of

move, they extended

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

vast amount of authority over the

represent the stagnation

Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a

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

for

the invitation, that safe haven

do when

He didn't answer.

but Jerald always blew them off,

in limbo. However, they would never forget this

war calmed down, they would take care

the relationship between the Council and Jerald had become

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

wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most people had already

most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even look

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

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

Duke tried to enter the Storm

border anyway since he was delivering orders from the Council

messenger was executed on

after that, public outrage occurred,

Whirlwind a deserter

made illegal,

still didn't dare to

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

wait until after the

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

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

not helping the Kingdom but

power-hungry, selfish, and had no concept

react to

of the people living in the Storm Eagle Zone left

most of these people were

that over 90% of them had left the Storm Eagle

Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had only

Adepts and Apprentices directly related

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

there were three High Mages left in the Storm Eagle