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 Beast. Was there

another Kingdom attacked, would they even be

Queen. Seeing part of its body was something entirely

had this gigantic

it another Zone

it a

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

we reach King Skythunder's

nodded and listened

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

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 power, he doesn't

"Although, talking to him

with confusion

like weaklings, and his definition of

up for themselves. To him, everyone in his Kingdom is so far beneath his power that Dukes and

is weaker than him, and he is right in thinking

entire Kingdom attacked him, he wouldn't even

Silence.

group took a

that the King was powerful, but THAT

don't forget his power

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

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

didn't much care

to the Council to manage

powerful High Mages in the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson for

and the Council Head counted as the second

both Peak High Mages with a Focus that had four

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

The group nodded.

audience with King Skythunder," Duke Whirlwind said with a bitter laugh,

looked at Duke Whirlwind with confused

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

Silence.