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 the fight

thing wouldn't work for the

its swipe and close in, he would have

arm

the two reached each other, the tiger

put his power into his sword and struck the tiger's

CRK!

The metal around the tiger's arm became

to all of Shang's previous opponents, this

of impact had become brittle,

BANG!

the same time, Shang was thrown

already weaker than a beast at the Initial General

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

body did a backflip in the air as

heard a

BANG!

pointed his left arm at the ground and released a Fire Blast, which shot

the tiger

second, Shang could see

muscles was severed, and the bone even

metal surrounding its body was keeping it

to come to a stop below Shang

put his left arm on his sword, and a moment

legs pointed at the sky

as they did, an explosion of

BANG!

the

that moment, the

this attack was very

metal on its back

struck the

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

back was a nearly meter-thick sheet of metal, and 80% of

even

sword had touched transformed into a liquid, which was quickly absorbed by

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

steam, and his left arm had

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

appeared around the tiger's body,

for a strike with its

that there was no opening and

that moment, the

and sharp swords