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.

opening, which had given Shang the opportunity to end the fight

thing wouldn't work for

managed to evade its swipe and close in, he would

two of them charged at each other, and Shang's left arm began to release

reached each other, the tiger swiped at Shang with its metallic

into his sword and struck the

CRK!

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

Shang's previous opponents, this was where the sword

become brittle, the metal in the other places hadn't been

BANG!

thrown into the distance by the tiger's

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

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

a backflip in the air as he tried to recover

Shang heard

BANG!

his left arm at the ground and released a

a moment later, the

split second, Shang could see the tiger's

muscles was severed, and the bone even

surrounding its body was keeping

tiger was trying to come to a stop below Shang since it had noticed that it

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

at the sky since he

did, an explosion of

BANG!

down as the tiger

moment, the tiger

that this

the metal on its back

sword struck the

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

back was a nearly meter-thick sheet of metal, and

even injured the

sword had touched transformed into a liquid, which was quickly

already stopped Shang's attack, and it jumped back

released steam, and his left arm had shriveled

absorbed life energy from the last fight, which

coat of metal appeared around the

readied its paws for a strike with its

that there was no opening and

the

long and sharp swords were about to