Sword God in a World of Magic

Rain poured down on the border between the Empress Cobra Zone and the Storm Eagle Zone.

Several True Path Stage warriors were stationed at this border. Usually, they were joking around, but today, they were not in the mood for jokes.

Two days ago, Jerald had made it public that they had declared war on the Skythunder Kingdom.

The reactions to these words were very mixed.

Some of the people were happy that they could finally fight for their freedom, while others were scared and thought Duke Whirlwind to be a suicidal maniac.

However, Jerald's following words had calmed down most of them.

He had promised that King Skythunder wouldn't get involved and that he had given his permission for the war.

Additionally, neither the Council nor he would get involved.

The reason for this decision was their united love for the Skythunder Kingdom.

Both parties wanted the Skythunder Kingdom to prosper, but they severely disagreed on the manner in which it should be run.

To not destroy the entire Skythunder Kingdom, it was decided to wage war in such a way.

Sadly, this only transformed the certain doom into a highly likely one.

What were they supposed to do against the Skythunder Kingdom?

They had over 300 High Mages!

Meanwhile, half of their True Path Stage warriors didn't even undergo the Procedure and couldn't even strengthen their bodies with beast hearts.

While half of the warriors could fight Mages on their level, the other half couldn't.

This meant that they essentially only had 50 True Path Stage warriors.

50 against 300.

Today, an emissary of the Skythunder Kingdom arrived at the border.

the robes that symbolized that

away from the border and

Duke Whirlwind has robbed the Skythunder Kingdom of one of its territories and claimed it as his own. Two days ago, the traitorous Duke declared war on the very Kingdom that he had called home for nearly

of Duke Whirlwind will be viewed as a traitor and will be put to death under

You will be subject to a Mind Read, and if you are found to be innocent, you will join the Skythunder Kingdom without

that has been found to support

have two days

closed the scroll, put it away, and walked

had hit the warriors

to war, but it was completely different

had still refused to believe that this was now their

words of the diplomat had been augmented by Magic, and they

heard the words, and it would be impossible to keep them hidden from the

fell into terror, while the

the Storm Eagle

Jerald's voice echoed throughout the Storm Eagle

being stopped. This is not your war, and I don't want you

to kill every man, woman, or child that merely lives in an enemy border, I am not

conquer the lands of the Skythunder Kingdom, we

home, you are allowed to join

are weak, but

in winning, I wouldn't have declared this

last

the following hours, the

of them trusted

and many younger people had seen how the world became worse and worse

the fear of losing one's life was terrifyingly powerful, and the other part of the populace wanted

in gambling with

the Skythunder Kingdom was the only correct choice because this was the only choice without a risk

of hours later, the Exodus

of citizens left the Storm Eagle Zone in

guards watched them

few Mages that had been in the Storm Eagle Zone weren't amongst the people that left. They had already made up their mind

were also very few Commander Stage

warriors. They were already powerful enough to feel the authoritarian claw of the Council, and if they hadn't been protected by Duke Whirlwind, they would