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.

a Zone Beast.

they even be

the Ancestor Queen. Seeing part

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

nodded

feel. As long as you don't look down on him in your

bow to him in an honest manner. The bow doesn't need to be very deferential, but

a bitter smile. "Although, talking to him is contradictory to what

looked with

weaklings, and his definition of

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

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

if every High Mage in the entire Kingdom

Silence.

took a collective deep

had known that the King was

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

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

speaking to them, you have to show your deepest respect. They won't dare to do anything with King Skythunder present, but hiring a True Mage Cleaner is

expected

King Skythunder didn't much care about ruling over

to the

the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson for all the Dukes, and

Head counted as the

Mages with a Focus that had

to be careful how you talk to 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

The group nodded.

with King Skythunder," Duke Whirlwind said with a bitter laugh, "and we're also all lucky that everyone

at Duke Whirlwind

the procedure before I managed to reach King Skythunder, we might have all

Silence.