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. Was there a

even be able to break through this

Ancestor Queen. Seeing part of its body

gigantic Zone Beast

it another

a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

we reach King Skythunder's castle, I have to tell you how to act in front of

nodded and

He only cares about power and what people truly feel. As

bow doesn't need to be very deferential, but you have to mean it.

"Although, talking to him is contradictory to what

looked with confusion

and his definition of weakling is a bit different than

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

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

in the entire Kingdom

Silence.

a

King was powerful, but THAT

as you don't forget his power while speaking to him, you will

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

won't dare to do anything with King Skythunder

expected something

the Skythunder Kingdom. King Skythunder didn't much care about ruling over his

it fell to the Council to manage his

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

Archduke and the Council Head counted as the second most powerful people in the

High Mages with a

them. The best way to go about this is to only talk to them if they speak to you first, and if they happen to speak to you,

The group nodded.

all quite lucky that I managed to get an audience with King Skythunder," Duke Whirlwind said with a bitter laugh, "and we're

Duke

to reach King Skythunder,

Silence.