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.

Zone

attacked, would they even be able to break

only heard of the Ancestor Queen. Seeing part of its

had this gigantic Zone Beast

it another Zone

a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

King Skythunder's castle, I have to

group nodded and

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

be very deferential, but you have to mean it. You also don't need to think that you are

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

with confusion

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

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.

and he is right in thinking so. You all have to remember

in the entire Kingdom attacked him, he wouldn't even

Silence.

a

that the King was powerful, but THAT

you don't forget his power while

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

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

expected

Skythunder didn't much care about ruling over his Kingdom, and he fully

the Council

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

counted as the second most powerful people in the entire

Peak High Mages with a Focus that

to only talk to them if they speak to you first, and if they happen to speak

The group nodded.

Whirlwind said with a bitter laugh, "and we're also all lucky that everyone managed to keep the secret until I could

looked at Duke Whirlwind with

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

Silence.