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.

a Zone Beast. Was

another Kingdom attacked, would they even be

Seeing part of its body

gigantic

it another Zone

it a

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

reach King Skythunder's castle, I have

group nodded and

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

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

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

with

and his definition of weakling

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. They are all far

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

every High Mage in the entire Kingdom attacked

Silence.

took a collective deep

known that the King

forget his power while

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

to them, you have 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

already expected something

Skythunder Kingdom. King Skythunder didn't much care about

the Council to manage his

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

as the second

Mages with a Focus that

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

The group nodded.

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

looked at Duke Whirlwind

Council had found out about the procedure before I managed to reach King

Silence.