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.

attack had left quite a noticeable opening, which had given Shang the opportunity to end

wouldn't

and close in, he would have to deal with the tiger's

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

each other, the tiger swiped at Shang with its metallic

his power into his

CRK!

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

comparison to all of Shang's previous opponents, this

at the point of impact had become brittle, the metal in the other places hadn't

BANG!

the same time, Shang was thrown

was already weaker than a beast at the Initial General

to sever the arm, this wouldn't have been an

did a backflip in the air

heard

BANG!

left arm at the ground and released a

the tiger

Shang could see the

the forearm's muscles was severed,

surrounding its body was keeping

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

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

pointed at the sky since he

explosion of Fire

BANG!

body shot down as the tiger turned its

moment, the tiger felt

that this attack was

instant later, the metal on its back

sword struck

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

metal, and 80% of the sheet had

hadn't even injured the

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

had already stopped Shang's attack, and

steam, and his left arm had

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

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

its paws for a

was no opening and decided to jump back to evade

that moment, the tiger's claws

long and sharp swords were