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.

Zone

even be able to break through

had only heard of the Ancestor Queen. Seeing part of its body

had this gigantic Zone

another

a

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

King Skythunder's castle, I have to tell you

nodded and listened

one for formalities and procedure. He only cares about power and what people truly feel. As long as you don't look down on him in your hearts,

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 his servant or something. As

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

group looked with confusion at Duke

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

is so far beneath his

him, and he is right in thinking

High Mage in the entire Kingdom attacked him, he wouldn't even get

Silence.

took a collective

King was powerful, but

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

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

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

leaders of the Skythunder Kingdom. King Skythunder didn't much care about ruling over his Kingdom, and he fully focused on

fell to the Council to manage

The Archduke was the spokesperson for all the Dukes, and they had the same level

counted as the second most powerful people in the entire

Mages with a Focus

to them. The best way to go about this is to only talk

The group nodded.

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

at Duke

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

Silence.