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.

Zone Beast. Was

another Kingdom attacked, would they even be able to break through this

Seeing part of its body

this gigantic Zone Beast

another

a

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

"Before we reach King Skythunder's castle, I have

group nodded and listened

people truly feel. As long as you don't

that you bow to him in an honest manner. The bow doesn't need to be very deferential, but you have

face turned into a bitter smile. "Although, talking to him is contradictory to what I told you

looked with confusion

definition of weakling is a

that can't follow their own principles, someone that can't speak up for themselves. To him, everyone in his Kingdom is so far beneath his power that Dukes and servants aren't different in his mind. They are all far weaker

than him, and he is right in thinking so.

entire Kingdom attacked him, he wouldn't even

Silence.

took a collective

the King was powerful, but THAT

you don't forget his power while

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

While speaking to them, you have to show your deepest respect. They won't dare to do anything with King Skythunder present,

expected something like

much care about ruling over

fell to the Council

comprised of the, generally accepted, five most powerful High Mages in the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the

counted as the second most powerful

were both Peak High Mages with a Focus that had four

to only talk to them if they speak to you

The group nodded.

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

looked at Duke Whirlwind with confused

Council had found out about the procedure before I managed to reach King Skythunder, we might have all already died," Duke Whirlwind

Silence.