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.

in the robes that symbolized that

from the border and took out a luxurious

Two days ago, the traitorous Duke declared war on the very Kingdom that he had called home for

unjustified revolution of Duke Whirlwind will be viewed as a traitor and will be put to

orders the warriors to leave their stations and enter the Empress Cobra Zone. You will be subject to a Mind Read, and if you

will assault Duke Whirlwind's claimed territory with its full force. Anyone that has been found to support Duke Whirlwind will be seen

have two

closed the scroll, put it away, and walked

words had hit the warriors

to war, but it was completely different when the

anyone had still refused to believe that this was now their reality, the words

by Magic, and they had

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

into terror, while

of the Storm Eagle

voice echoed throughout the Storm

is not your war, and I don't

man, woman, or child that merely lives in an enemy border, I am not of that

lands of the Skythunder Kingdom, we will not raze

your new home, you are allowed to join

Kingdom believes that we are weak, but they have not realized our

winning, I wouldn't have declared

the last sentence

the following hours, the populace was split

them trusted their

old people remembered how everything had been back in the good old days, and many younger people had

terrifyingly powerful, and the other

point in

to the Skythunder Kingdom was the only correct choice because this

of hours later,

left the Storm Eagle Zone in

them leave with

had been in the Storm Eagle Zone weren't amongst the people that left.

were also very few

for that was the power of the 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