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 greater

attacked, would they even be able

Ancestor Queen. Seeing part of its body was

this gigantic Zone Beast

another Zone

it a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

reach King Skythunder's castle, I have to

nodded and

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

is better to be safe than 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 are

bitter smile. "Although, talking

looked with

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

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 them

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

the entire Kingdom attacked him,

Silence.

took a collective deep

known that the King was powerful, but THAT

forget his power while speaking to him, you

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

I can't say the same thing for the Council. While speaking to them, you have to show your deepest respect. They won't dare to do

already expected something

Skythunder didn't much care about ruling over his Kingdom, and he fully focused on his own

fell to the Council to manage his

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

counted as the second most powerful

both Peak High Mages with a Focus that

talk to them if they speak to you first, and if they happen to speak to you,

The group nodded.

Skythunder," Duke Whirlwind said with a bitter laugh, "and we're also all lucky that everyone managed to keep the secret until I could

group looked at Duke Whirlwind with

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

Silence.