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

be able to break

Ancestor Queen. Seeing

had this gigantic Zone

it another Zone

it a

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

we reach King Skythunder's castle,

nodded and

feel. As long

manner. The bow doesn't need to be very deferential, but you have to mean

bitter smile. "Although, talking to him is contradictory to what I told you

with confusion

weaklings, and his definition of

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 and servants aren't different in his mind. They are all far weaker than him,

he is right in thinking so. You all have

the entire Kingdom

Silence.

a collective

King was powerful,

his power while speaking

Then, Duke Whirlwind frowned.

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 just a

had already expected something

of the Skythunder Kingdom. King Skythunder didn't much care about ruling over

the Council

in the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson for all the Dukes, and they had the same level of power as

counted as the second most powerful people in the entire

High Mages with a

careful how you talk to them. The best way to go about this is to only talk to them if

The group nodded.

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

Duke Whirlwind with

the Council had found out about the procedure before I managed to reach King Skythunder, we might have all already died," Duke Whirlwind

Silence.