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

Council did something that no one could have seen

Duke Whirlwind a

Mages but poor with truly powerful

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

this move, they extended an olive branch to

be swept under the rug, and he could join the

vast amount of authority over

this would also represent the stagnation

the only reason why there were 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

been on the frontlines

were everywhere except for the

accepted the invitation, that safe haven would

did Jerald do

He didn't answer.

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

stuck in limbo. However, they would never forget this

the war calmed down, they would take care of

relationship between the

out a decree that people should avoid the Storm Eagle

like an embargo because Jerald wasn't running his Zone

powerful Dukes, and he

was below the Council, but unofficially, he had assumed a position opposing

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 High Mage standing

to enter the Storm Eagle Zone, they would be dissuaded

border anyway since he was delivering orders

was executed on

that, public outrage

called Duke Whirlwind a deserter

made illegal, and

Council still didn't

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

wait until after

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

reasonable ones and that it

Whirlwind was not helping

and had no concept

didn't react to

and over 50% of the people living in the

more, most of these people

see that over 90% of them had left the

the Storm Eagle Zone now had

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

not powerful enough to make a difference in the war, which was why they couldn't stand up for what they believed

left in the Storm Eagle Zone, including