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

something that no one could have seen

offered Duke Whirlwind a

Mages but poor with truly powerful High

were plenty of candidates for being a Duke, but only very few

this move, they extended an olive branch to

meant that Jerald's past conduct would be swept under the

amount of authority over the

would also represent

place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted

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

everywhere except for the

Jerald accepted the invitation,

Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

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

stuck in limbo. However,

calmed down, they

between the Council and

out a decree that people should

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

was below the Council, but unofficially, he had

years later, the guards stationed at the borders of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled in size. There were even two True Path Stage warriors and a

Council or another Duke tried to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would

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

messenger was executed

public outrage occurred, fueled by the

Duke Whirlwind a

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

the Council still didn't

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

until

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

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

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

selfish, and

didn't react to these

Council, and over 50% of the

more, most of

that over 90% of

the Storm Eagle Zone now

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

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

were three High Mages left