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.

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

Council did something that no one could

a seat

rich with High Mages but poor with truly

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

move, they extended an olive

past conduct would be swept under the rug, and he

a vast amount of

would also represent the

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 want to join

the frontlines yet, and if they

except for the

accepted the invitation,

did Jerald do

He didn't answer.

three more invitations, but Jerald always blew them off,

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

down, they would

the Council and Jerald

sent out a decree that people should avoid the

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

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

but unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing them

at the borders of the Storm Eagle Zone 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,

pass the border anyway since

executed on the

public outrage occurred, fueled by

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter and

illegal, and powerful guards were stationed at

the Council still

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

wait until after the war

Duke Whirlwind to give the land he illegally occupied back to

Council used these incidents as proof that they were the reasonable ones and that it

was not helping the Kingdom but

was power-hungry, selfish, and had no concept

react to

of the people living in

more, most of these people

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

Mages, the Storm Eagle Zone now had

only Adepts and Apprentices directly

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

least there were three High Mages left in the Storm