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.

extremely elaborate traps with several exceedingly powerful High Mages attacking them at the

later, the Council did something that no one

a

rich with High Mages but poor with truly

Duke, but only very few for being a member of the

this move, they extended

conduct would be swept under the rug, and he could join

would gain a vast amount of

this would also represent the

and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven for all the warriors that didn't want to join the

been on the frontlines yet, and if they found one of the warriors, they would be forced to fight

except for the Storm Eagle

accepted the invitation, that safe haven would

did Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

always blew them off, telling them that he needed more time

the Council was stuck in limbo.

war calmed down, they would take care of

relationship between the Council and Jerald had become

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

because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted him to,

of the oldest and most powerful Dukes,

had

borders of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled

tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would

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

messenger was executed on

that, public outrage occurred, fueled by

called Duke Whirlwind

Eagle Zone was made illegal, and powerful guards were stationed at

the Council still didn't

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

wait until after the war

several people to demand Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to the Skythunder Kingdom, but the messengers were always turned away at

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

not helping

power-hungry, selfish, and had

didn't react

over 50% of the people living in the Storm Eagle

most of these people were

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

True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had

Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly related

for what they

Mages left in the Storm Eagle Zone,