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

would they even be able to

the Ancestor Queen. Seeing

had this gigantic Zone Beast

another Zone

it a

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

group nodded and

for formalities and procedure. He only cares about power and what people truly feel. As long as you don't look down on him in your hearts, he won't perceive

it is better to be safe than sorry. I would suggest that you bow to him in an honest manner. The bow doesn't need to be 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 you

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

group looked with confusion

definition of weakling is

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

than him, and he is right in thinking

every High Mage in the entire Kingdom

Silence.

a collective

known that the King was powerful,

don't forget his power

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

They won't dare to do anything with King Skythunder present, but hiring a True Mage Cleaner is just a bit of money to

expected

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

fell to the Council to

five most powerful High Mages in the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson

and the Council Head counted as

were both Peak High Mages with a Focus that had four

to be careful how you talk to them. The best way to go about this is to only talk

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

looked at Duke Whirlwind with confused

I managed to reach King Skythunder, we might have all

Silence.