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.

a noticeable opening, which had given Shang the

wouldn't work for

close in, he would

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

reached each other, the tiger swiped at Shang with its metallic

his sword and struck the

CRK!

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

of Shang's previous opponents, this

the metal at the point of impact had become

BANG!

time, Shang was thrown into the

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

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

a backflip in the air as he

Shang heard a

BANG!

ground and released a Fire Blast, which

the

split second, Shang could

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

the metal surrounding its body

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

spun in the air, he put his left arm on his

later, Shang's legs pointed at the sky

explosion

BANG!

the tiger turned its head

the tiger

felt that this attack

the metal on its back

struck the

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

metal, and 80% of

attack hadn't even

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

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

steam, and his left arm had

remaining absorbed life energy from the last fight, which had been

appeared around the tiger's body,

paws for

was no opening and decided to jump back to evade

moment, the

long and sharp swords were about to