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

years later, the Council did something that

a seat on

Kingdom was rich with High Mages but

Duke, but only very few for

they extended

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

gain a vast amount of

would also represent

even so many powerful warriors in the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone still acted as a safe haven for all the warriors that didn't

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

everywhere except for the Storm

invitation,

Jerald do when the invitation

He didn't answer.

them

was stuck in limbo. However, they would never

calmed down, they

the relationship between the Council and Jerald

sent out a decree

phrased like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone like they wanted

one of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he could probably even

he had assumed a position opposing

stationed at the borders of the Storm Eagle Zone had quintupled

enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would

a messenger tried to pass the border anyway since he was

executed on the

outrage occurred,

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter and

was made illegal, and powerful guards were

still

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

wait until after the

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

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

helping the Kingdom but putting

and had no concept

didn't react to these

the Council, and over 50% of the people

most of these people

the Mages, one would see that over 90% of

Eagle Zone now

only Adepts and Apprentices directly related

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

left in the Storm Eagle