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

they even be able to

Seeing part of its body

had this gigantic

another Zone

it a

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

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

nodded and

people truly feel. As long as you don't look down

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

Whirlwind's face turned into a bitter smile. "Although, talking to

with confusion at Duke

Skythunder also doesn't like weaklings, and his definition of weakling is a bit different than

principles, someone that can't speak up for themselves. To him, everyone in his Kingdom is so far beneath his

is weaker than him, and he is right in

Mage in the entire Kingdom attacked him, he

Silence.

a collective deep

had known that the King was powerful, but THAT

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

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

say the same thing for the Council. While speaking to them, you have to show your deepest respect. They won't dare to do anything with King Skythunder present, but

expected something

Council were the actual leaders of the Skythunder Kingdom. King Skythunder didn't much care about ruling over his Kingdom, and he

it fell to the Council to manage

for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson for all

Head counted as the

High Mages with a Focus that had

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

The group nodded.

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

at Duke Whirlwind with confused

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

Silence.