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

would they even be able to break through this insane

Seeing part of its body was

this gigantic

another Zone

it a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

everyone!" Duke Whirlwind shouted to the group of warriors. "Before we reach King Skythunder's castle, I have

group nodded and listened

for formalities and procedure. He only cares about power and what people truly feel. As long as you don't look down

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 is contradictory to what I

looked with

weaklings, and his definition of weakling is a bit different than

his mind, a weakling is someone that can't 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

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

entire

Silence.

a collective

the King was

you don't forget his power while speaking

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

won't

already expected something

King Skythunder didn't much care about

fell to the Council to manage

was comprised of the, generally accepted, five most powerful High Mages in the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke

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

were both Peak High Mages with a Focus that had

about this is to only talk to them if

The group nodded.

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

Duke Whirlwind with confused

I managed to reach

Silence.