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.

armor of a Zone Beast. Was

Kingdom attacked, would they even be able to break through

Queen. Seeing part of its body was

this gigantic Zone Beast

it another Zone

a natural

Was it the God?

Shang wasn't sure.

the group of warriors. "Before we reach King Skythunder's castle, I have to tell you how to act in front

nodded and

what people truly feel. As long as you

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 his servant or something. As long as you acknowledge his overwhelming power, he

talking to him is contradictory to what I

with confusion

weaklings, and his definition of weakling is a bit different

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

him, and he is right in thinking so. You all have

every High Mage in the entire Kingdom

Silence.

group took a

King

his power while speaking to him, you

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

had already expected

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

the Council to manage

Council was comprised of the, generally accepted, five most powerful High Mages in the Kingdom, except for the Archduke. The Archduke was the spokesperson for all the Dukes, and they had the same

Archduke and the Council Head counted as the

Mages with a Focus that had four

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

The group nodded.

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

the procedure before I managed to reach King Skythunder, we might have all already died," Duke

Silence.