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.

left quite a noticeable opening, which

wouldn't work for the

evade its swipe and close in, he would have to deal

and Shang's left arm began to release steam

the tiger swiped at Shang with

power into his

CRK!

exploded forward. The metal around the tiger's

all of Shang's previous opponents, this

of impact had become brittle, the metal in

BANG!

same time, Shang was thrown

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

to sever the arm,

did a backflip in the air as he tried

heard

BANG!

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

the

second, Shang could see the

muscles was severed, and the bone even had some cracks

surrounding its body was keeping it

to come to a stop below Shang since it had noticed that it

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

at the

they did, an explosion of Fire

BANG!

as the tiger turned its

the tiger

this attack

instant later, the metal on its

struck

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

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

attack hadn't even injured

later, all the metal the sword had touched transformed into a

already stopped Shang's attack, and

steam, and his left arm had

energy from the last fight, which had been stored all

of metal appeared around the tiger's

for a

that there was no opening and decided to jump back to evade the

that moment, the tiger's claws

sharp swords were about