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

wouldn't work for the

managed to evade its swipe and close in, he would have to

arm began

the two reached each other, the tiger swiped at

his sword and struck the

CRK!

hit the tiger's forearm, and the Ice Mana inside it exploded forward. The metal around the

previous opponents, this was where the sword

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

BANG!

the same time, Shang was thrown into the

a beast at the Initial General Stage, and this opponent was at

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

the air as

Shang heard

BANG!

ground and released a Fire Blast,

a moment later, the

Shang could see

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

metal surrounding its

below Shang since it had

left arm on his sword, and a moment

Shang's legs pointed at the sky since he was

explosion of Fire Mana

BANG!

shot down as the tiger turned its head to

moment, the tiger felt

this attack was

metal on its back expanded

struck

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

nearly meter-thick sheet of metal, and 80% of the

attack hadn't even injured

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

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

legs released steam, and his left arm

fight, which had been stored

the tiger's body, and it jumped toward

paws for a

was no opening and decided to jump

that moment, the

long and sharp swords were about