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 Beast. Was there

would they even be able to break through this

only heard of the Ancestor Queen. Seeing part of

had this gigantic

it another Zone

a

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

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

group nodded and listened

what people truly feel. As long as you don't look down on him in your hearts, he

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

talking to him is contradictory to what

with

doesn't like weaklings, and his definition of weakling

his Kingdom is so far beneath his power that

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

the entire Kingdom attacked him, he wouldn't even

Silence.

group took a collective

known that the King was powerful, but

as you don't forget his power

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

have to show your deepest respect. They won't dare to do anything with King Skythunder present, but hiring a

had already expected something like

of the Skythunder Kingdom. King Skythunder didn't much care about

fell to the Council

was comprised of the, generally accepted, five most powerful High Mages in the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson for all the Dukes, and they

Archduke and the Council Head counted as the second most

both Peak High Mages with a Focus that had four

this is to only talk to them if they speak to you first, and if

The group nodded.

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

Duke Whirlwind

managed to reach King Skythunder, we might have all already

Silence.