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.

be able to

the Ancestor Queen. Seeing part of its body was something entirely

this gigantic Zone Beast

another

a

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

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

nodded and listened

about power and what people truly feel. As

but you have to

Duke Whirlwind's face turned into a bitter smile. "Although, talking to him is contradictory to what I

with confusion at Duke

his definition of weakling is a

weakling 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

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

High Mage in the entire Kingdom

Silence.

group took a collective

that the King

you don't forget his power while

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

you have to show your deepest respect. They won't

expected something like

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

it fell to the Council to manage his

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

the Council Head counted as the second most powerful

with

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

The group nodded.

we are 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

group looked at Duke Whirlwind with

found out about the procedure before I managed to reach King Skythunder, we might

Silence.