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.

armor of a Zone

another Kingdom attacked, would they even be able

Queen. Seeing part of its body

had this gigantic Zone Beast

another Zone

it a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

of warriors. "Before we reach King Skythunder's castle,

nodded and

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

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

face turned into a bitter smile. "Although, talking to him is contradictory

group looked with confusion

doesn't like weaklings, and his definition of weakling is a bit

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. They are all far weaker than him, and he treats

than him, and he is right

every High Mage in the entire Kingdom attacked

Silence.

a

King was powerful, but THAT

long as you don't forget his power

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 of money to

expected something like

Skythunder didn't much care

the Council to manage

five most powerful High Mages in the Kingdom, except for 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 people

High Mages with a Focus

go about this is to only talk to them if they

The group nodded.

with a bitter laugh, "and we're also all lucky that everyone managed to keep the

looked at Duke Whirlwind

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

Silence.