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.

a Zone Beast. Was there a

another Kingdom attacked, would they even be able

Queen. Seeing part of its body was something

had this gigantic

it another Zone

a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

reach King Skythunder's castle, I have to

group nodded and

As long as you don't look down on him in your hearts, he

very deferential, but you have to mean it. You also don't need to think that you are his servant or something. As long as

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

looked with confusion

his definition of weakling

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

than him, and he is

High Mage in the entire Kingdom attacked him,

Silence.

took a collective deep

King was

his power while speaking to him, you will

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

speaking to them, you have to show your deepest respect. They won't dare to do anything with King Skythunder present, but hiring a True Mage Cleaner is just a bit of money

already expected something like

much care about ruling over his

to the

in the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson for all the Dukes, and they had the same level of power as the Council

counted as the second most powerful people in

both Peak High Mages with a Focus

them. The best way to go about this is to only talk to them if they speak to you first, and if they happen to speak to you, be

The group nodded.

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 secret until I could reach

group looked at Duke Whirlwind with confused

out about the procedure before I managed to reach King Skythunder, we might have all already died,"

Silence.