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.

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

later, the Council did something that no one

Duke Whirlwind a seat on the

Skythunder Kingdom was rich with High Mages but poor with truly powerful High

Duke, but only very few for being a member of

they extended

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

vast amount of authority over the entire

this would also represent

the first place, and the Storm Eagle Zone

Kingdom, searching for warriors that hadn't been on the frontlines

everywhere except for the Storm

invitation, that safe

did Jerald do when the

He didn't answer.

but Jerald always blew them off, telling them

was stuck in limbo. However, they

calmed down, they would

relationship between the Council and Jerald had

a decree that people should avoid the Storm Eagle

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

was one of the oldest and most powerful Dukes, and he

he had assumed a

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

tried to enter

the border anyway since he

executed on the

public outrage occurred, fueled by

called Duke Whirlwind

Zone was made illegal,

still didn't dare to

High Mages, and

until after

Council sent 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 the

they were the reasonable ones and that it was Duke Whirlwind that refused

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

was power-hungry, selfish, and had no concept of

react to

of the people living in the Storm Eagle Zone

of these people

one only looked at the Mages, one would see that over 90% of

True Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now

Apprentices had nearly vanished. Essentially only Adepts and Apprentices directly related to the 15

why they couldn't stand up for what they believed in. Some of them wanted to remain, but when faced with the

there were three High Mages left in the Storm