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

thing wouldn't

evade its swipe and close in, he would have

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

each other, the tiger swiped

his power into his sword and struck the

CRK!

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

all of Shang's previous opponents, this was

impact had become brittle, the metal in the other places hadn't

BANG!

thrown into the distance by

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

had managed to sever the arm,

backflip in the air as he tried

Shang heard a

BANG!

the ground and released a

moment later, the tiger

split second, Shang could

the forearm's muscles was severed,

the metal surrounding its body

Shang since it

body spun in the air, he put his left arm on his sword, and a moment

instant later, Shang's legs pointed at the sky since he was still

they did, an explosion of Fire Mana

BANG!

shot down as the tiger turned its head to

moment, the tiger felt some

that this

the metal on

sword struck

CRRRRRRRRRR!

Time seemingly froze.

tiger's back was a nearly meter-thick sheet of metal, and 80% of the sheet had been bisected by

attack hadn't even

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

the tiger had already stopped Shang's attack, and it

his

the last fight, which had been stored all over

around the tiger's body,

for a

and decided

the tiger's

sharp swords were about to