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.

be able to break

Ancestor Queen. Seeing part of its body was something entirely

gigantic

another Zone

it a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

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

group nodded

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

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 acknowledge his overwhelming power, he

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

group looked with

like weaklings, and his definition of weakling is a bit different

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

the Kingdom is weaker than him, and he is right in thinking so. You all have

High Mage in the entire Kingdom attacked him, he

Silence.

group took a collective

the King was

you don't forget his power

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

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

expected something like

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

it fell to the Council to

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

Archduke and the Council Head counted as the second most powerful

both Peak High Mages with a Focus

this is to only talk to them if they speak to you first, and if they happen to speak to you, be respectful,"

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 also all lucky that everyone managed to keep the secret until I

Duke Whirlwind with confused

I managed to reach King Skythunder, we might

Silence.