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 opportunity to end

wouldn't

swipe and close in, he would

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

each other, the tiger swiped at Shang with

his

CRK!

The metal around

of Shang's previous opponents, this was where the sword

the metal at the point of impact had become brittle, the metal in

BANG!

time, Shang was thrown into the distance

Initial General Stage, and

managed to sever the arm, this wouldn't have

air as he tried to recover his

heard

BANG!

ground and released a Fire Blast, which shot him into

the

could see the tiger's

severed, and the bone even had some cracks on

metal surrounding its body was keeping it

trying to come to a stop below Shang since it had noticed that it had missed its

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

Shang's legs pointed at the

as they did, an explosion of Fire

BANG!

down as the tiger turned its head

moment, the tiger felt some

that this

later, the metal on its back expanded

struck

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

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

hadn't even injured the

the metal the sword had touched transformed into a

Shang's attack, and it jumped back to

his left arm had shriveled

which had been stored all over Shang's body, quickly

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

readied its paws for a strike with its

no opening and decided to jump back to

the

and sharp swords were about to