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 had given Shang the opportunity to end the fight

wouldn't work

and close in, he would have to deal

charged at each other, and Shang's left arm began to release steam as he

the tiger swiped at Shang with its metallic

into his sword and struck the

CRK!

Ice Mana inside it exploded forward. The metal around the tiger's

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

had become brittle,

BANG!

same time, Shang was thrown into the

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

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

did a backflip in the air

heard

BANG!

released a Fire Blast, which

later, the

Shang could see the tiger's injured

forearm's muscles was severed, and the bone even had

the metal surrounding its body was

Shang since it had noticed that it had missed

the air, he put his left arm on his sword, and

Shang's legs pointed at the sky

explosion of

BANG!

down as the tiger turned

moment, the tiger felt some

that this attack was very

the metal on its

struck

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

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

even injured the

sword had touched transformed into a liquid, which

had already stopped Shang's attack, and it jumped back to

his left arm

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

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

readied its paws for

saw that there was no opening and decided to

moment, the tiger's

sharp swords were about