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.

had left quite a noticeable opening, which had given Shang the opportunity to

wouldn't work for

managed to evade its swipe and close in,

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

each other, the tiger swiped at Shang with

into his sword and struck

CRK!

forward. The metal around the tiger's arm

of Shang's previous opponents,

at the point of impact had become brittle, the metal in the other places hadn't

BANG!

was thrown into

at the Initial

had managed to sever the arm, this wouldn't have

air as he tried to recover

Shang heard

BANG!

arm at the ground and released a

later, the tiger

could see the

was severed, and the bone even

metal surrounding its body was keeping it

to a stop below Shang since

spun in the air, he put his left arm on his sword, and a moment later, his

legs pointed at

explosion of Fire Mana left

BANG!

down as the tiger turned its

moment, the tiger felt some

this attack was

instant later, the metal on its back expanded

struck

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

nearly meter-thick sheet of metal, and 80% of the sheet

attack hadn't even injured the

had touched transformed into a liquid, which was quickly

Shang's attack, and

legs released steam, and his left

remaining absorbed life energy from the last fight, which had been stored all over Shang's body, quickly

the tiger's body, and it jumped

readied its paws for a strike with its

and decided to jump back to

the tiger's claws

swords