Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang looked at the thing that Duke Whirlwind had called a castle.

On the horizon, Shang could see a gigantic, white dome.

It was three kilometers long and nearly two kilometers high. In a way, it looked like a gigantic hill without any vegetation.

And that was supposed to be King Skythunder's castle?

In Shang's mind, having a huge dome as a castle didn't fit King Skythunder at all. After all, King Skythunder had a Wind and Lightning Affinity. Those Affinities were related more to spiky than round things.

As the group continued traveling, Shang kept looking at the dome.

For some reason, it wasn't entirely even.

There were some ridges here and there. On top of that, the ridges didn't seem entirely man-made.

That was when Shang remembered something, and his mind made a connection.

'Wait, could that be?'

"Is this an exoskeleton?" Shang asked.

Duke Whirlwind looked with surprise at Shang.

And then, he smirked. "Quite smart, Shang," he said. "Yes, this is the exoskeleton of the Ancestor Queen."

Shang nodded.

This made a lot of sense!

The Caves below the Storm Eagle Zone had once housed a huge insect tribe, and it had counted as its own Zone, the Ancestor Queen Zone.

The Ancestor Queen had died mysteriously, and King Skythunder had once confirmed the death.

Would they leave such a valuable corpse?

Of course not!

They had retrieved the corpse, and evidently, they had used the Ancestor Queen's carapace as a natural fortress.

of a Zone

attacked, would they even be able to break through

heard of the Ancestor Queen. Seeing part of its body was something entirely

had this gigantic Zone Beast

it another Zone

it a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

King Skythunder's castle, I have

group nodded and

formalities and procedure. He only cares about power and what people truly feel. As long as you don't look down on him in

doesn't need to be very deferential, but you have to mean it. You also don't need to think

talking to him is contradictory to what I told

with confusion at

of weakling is a bit different than you might

principles, someone that can't speak up for themselves. To him, everyone in his Kingdom is so far beneath

than him, and he is right in thinking so. You all have to remember

High Mage in the entire Kingdom attacked him, he wouldn't even

Silence.

took a collective

known that the King was

his power while speaking to him,

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

your deepest respect. They won't dare to do anything with King Skythunder

expected something

leaders of the Skythunder Kingdom. King Skythunder didn't much care about ruling over his Kingdom, and he fully focused on his

fell to the Council to

Council was comprised of the, generally accepted, five most powerful High Mages in the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson for all the Dukes, and they

and the Council Head counted as the second most powerful people

Peak High Mages with a Focus that had four

this is to only talk to them if they speak to you first, and if

The group nodded.

all quite lucky that I managed to get an audience with King Skythunder," Duke Whirlwind said with a bitter laugh, "and we're

group looked at Duke Whirlwind with

procedure before I managed to reach King Skythunder,

Silence.