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.

had left quite a noticeable opening, which had given Shang

thing wouldn't work for

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

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

two reached each other, the tiger swiped at Shang

his power into his

CRK!

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

of Shang's previous opponents, this

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

BANG!

the same time, Shang was thrown into the

at the Initial General Stage, and this opponent was at

sever the arm, this

did a backflip in the air as he tried to recover his

heard

BANG!

left arm at the ground and released a Fire

later, the tiger

Shang could see

was severed, and the bone even had some cracks on

surrounding its body was keeping it

below Shang since it had noticed that it had missed its

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

at the sky since he was

did, an explosion of Fire

BANG!

down as the tiger turned its head to

moment, the

this attack

later, the metal

sword struck the

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

sheet of metal, and 80% of the sheet

even injured

the sword had touched transformed into a liquid, which

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

his left

absorbed life energy 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

readied its paws for a strike with

saw that there was no opening and decided

moment, the tiger's

sharp swords were about to strike