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

wouldn't work for

Shang managed to evade its swipe and close in, he would have to

arm began to release steam as he put it on his

other, the tiger swiped at

into his sword and

CRK!

exploded forward. The metal

previous opponents, this was

of impact had become brittle, the metal in the

BANG!

the same time, Shang was thrown into the distance

beast at the Initial General Stage, and this opponent was at the Early General

to sever the

backflip in the air as

Shang heard

BANG!

the ground and released a Fire Blast, which shot him into the

the tiger

could see the

forearm's muscles was severed, and the bone

surrounding its body was

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

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

later, Shang's legs pointed at

an explosion of Fire Mana

BANG!

the tiger turned its head to

the

this attack was very

metal

struck the

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

of metal, and 80% of the sheet had been bisected

even injured the

later, all the metal the sword had touched transformed

Shang's attack, and it jumped back to reset its

and his left arm

from the last fight, which had been stored all over Shang's body,

new coat of metal appeared around the tiger's body, and it jumped toward

paws for a

was no opening and decided to jump

moment, the tiger's

swords were about