Sword God in a World of Magic

The wheel slowed down and eventually stopped on Shang's next opponent.

It was the image of a smug, silver, cyborg-tiger. Its outer casing was shining brightly.

A moment later, Shang's opponent appeared in the distance.

It was a silver tiger, nearly two meters high.

That was about it.

There was nothing fancy or special about its appearance.

However, this didn't mean that it was weak. After all, the trial had obviously judged this tiger to be quite powerful.

'Tigers have devastating offensive powers, and they are quite fast. Usually, their defense would be their weak point. However…'

The jester slowly lifted his hammer and hit the bell.

At that moment, the tiger noticed Shang.

The tiger looked at Shang for three seconds.

Shang wasn't sure what the tiger was thinking, but he could swear he could feel some disdain building inside the tiger.

Then, the tiger's lips parted as it showed its teeth.

BANG!

And it exploded forward.

'This doesn't make much sense,' Shang thought as he saw the approaching tiger. 'If it had perceived me as a threat, it would have immediately shown a reaction.'

'But it also doesn't make any sense that it looks at me like I'm beneath it. After all, if I were beneath it, it would have ignored me or simply intimidated me into leaving.'

'Instead, it waited for several seconds before attacking me.'

BANG!

As the tiger took another step, its body began to shine.

In only a single second, its entire body became coated with metal.

Even more, its speed hadn't decreased, even though this much metal had to weigh several tons.

'Sure enough, a normal tiger wouldn't be powerful enough to count as one of the more powerful beasts,' Shang thought as he readied himself.

BANG!

And Shang also charged forward.

quite a noticeable opening, which had given Shang the

thing wouldn't work for

its swipe and close in,

two of them charged at each other, and Shang's left arm began to release steam as he put it on his

two reached each other, the tiger

into his sword and struck the

CRK!

inside it exploded forward. The metal around the tiger's arm became brittle, and Shang's sword reached the bone of

in comparison to all of Shang's previous opponents, this was where

of impact had become brittle, the metal in the

BANG!

was thrown into the

already weaker than a beast at the Initial General Stage, and this opponent was at

to sever the arm,

did a backflip in the air

heard a

BANG!

left arm at the ground and released a Fire Blast, which shot

a moment later, the tiger passed below

Shang could

the forearm's muscles was severed, and the bone even

the metal surrounding its body was keeping it

stop below Shang since it had noticed that it had missed its

he put his left arm on his sword, and a moment later, his left arm began

at

an explosion of

BANG!

shot down as the tiger turned its head to

moment, the

felt that this

later, the metal

sword struck

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

tiger's back was a nearly meter-thick sheet of metal, and 80% of the sheet

even

metal the sword had touched transformed into a liquid,

the tiger had already stopped Shang's attack, and it jumped

legs released steam, and his left

fight, which had been

the

readied its paws for a

opening and decided to jump back to

the tiger's claws

long and sharp swords were