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 Beast. Was there

even be able to break

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

gigantic

another Zone

a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

the group of warriors. "Before we reach King Skythunder's castle, I have to tell you how to

group nodded and listened

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

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

smile. "Although, talking to him is contradictory to what I told you just

looked with confusion at

also doesn't like weaklings, and his definition of weakling is a bit different than you might

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,

he is right in thinking so. You all have to

entire Kingdom attacked

Silence.

group took a collective deep

had known that the King was powerful, but THAT

long as you don't forget his power

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

the same thing for the Council. While speaking to them, you have to show your deepest respect. They won't

had already expected

the actual leaders of the Skythunder Kingdom. King Skythunder didn't much care about ruling

the

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

and the Council Head counted as the second most powerful people in

High Mages with

go about this is to only talk to them if they speak to you

The group nodded.

we are all quite 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 the

group looked at Duke Whirlwind with

managed to reach

Silence.