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

thing wouldn't work for

close in, he would have

left arm began to release steam as

the two reached each other, the tiger swiped at

his power into his sword and

CRK!

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

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

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

BANG!

thrown into the distance by the tiger's

body was already weaker than a beast at the Initial General Stage, and this opponent

to sever the arm, this

air as he

Shang heard

BANG!

the ground and released a

later, the tiger passed

could

of the forearm's muscles was severed, and

its body was keeping

a stop below Shang since it had

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

later, Shang's legs pointed at

did, an explosion of Fire Mana left

BANG!

down as the tiger turned its head to

moment, the tiger felt

felt that this attack was very

instant later, the metal on its

struck the

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

of metal, and 80% of the sheet had been bisected

attack hadn't even

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

the tiger had already stopped Shang's attack, and

released steam, and his left arm had

life energy from the last fight, which had been stored

around the tiger's body,

its paws for a strike with

no opening and decided to jump back to evade the

that moment, the tiger's

long and sharp swords were about to