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.

natural armor of a Zone Beast. Was there

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

Ancestor Queen. Seeing part of its body was something entirely

this gigantic Zone Beast

another Zone

a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

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

nodded

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

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

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

group looked with confusion at

definition of weakling is a bit different than

is someone 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

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

entire Kingdom attacked him, he

Silence.

a collective

known that the King was powerful, but THAT

his power while speaking to him, you will be

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

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

didn't much care about ruling over his

it fell to the

the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson for all the

counted as the second most powerful people in

High Mages with a

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

The group nodded.

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

Duke

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

Silence.