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 powerful High Mages attacking them at the same

something that no

Whirlwind a seat on the

was rich with High Mages but poor with truly powerful High

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

move, they extended an olive

meant that Jerald's past conduct would be swept under the rug, and he could join the Council as a

amount of authority over the entire

represent the

in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still

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

were everywhere except for the Storm Eagle

the invitation,

did Jerald do when

He didn't answer.

Jerald always blew them off, telling

was stuck in limbo. However, they would never forget this

calmed down, they would take

between the Council and Jerald

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

an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to, but most

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

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

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

under orders of the Council or another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would be

the border anyway since he was delivering orders from

messenger was executed

after that, public outrage

called Duke Whirlwind

to the Storm Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards were stationed at its

the Council still didn't

Mages,

had to wait until after

land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the

the reasonable ones and

Duke Whirlwind was not helping

and had no concept

react to

believed the Council, and over 50% of the people living in the Storm Eagle Zone

of these people were

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

terms of True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had only around

and Apprentices had nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly related to the

and Apprentices were not powerful enough to make a 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

were three High Mages left in