Sword God in a World of Magic

The corpse of the bug quickly vanished, and the cheering returned.

An average beast, a level above him, wasn't very difficult for Shang to kill. He only needed to release three attacks and didn't even need to move from his spot.

Shang's offensive power in his Saber State was insanely powerful. He could essentially release over ten attacks equivalent to basic Spells of High Mages in just a single second.

The wheel returned and began to spin again.

"Level six: Powerful Early True Path Stage beast."

Shang looked at the wheel with a bit of subdued interest.

When it stopped, the picture it landed on enlarged, and Shang could see the image of an old tortoise with a cartoony castle on its back.

SHING!

Shang's opponent appeared, and he looked over.

It was big.

Like, really big.

Shang guessed that it was probably around as big as the Exploding Mountain Turtle he had seen back then at around 500 meters high.

It was a gigantic, black tortoise completely surrounded by a thick layer of black metal. Even its eyes, ears, and mouth were surrounded by the metal. In a way, it looked like a humongous statue made of metal.

However, the Exploding Mountain Turtle was obviously not on the level of this imposing armored fortress.

Shang could already guess why the tortoise counted as a powerful beast.

There were two ways to become truly powerful in general.

The traditional and most-used way was to eradicate all weaknesses and become good at everything.

Good speed.

Good attacking power.

Good defense.

Good tactics.

However, there was a second, rarer way.

It was to push one aspect so incredibly high that the others didn't matter anymore.

If one got access to insane speeds, defense didn't matter. The opponent wouldn't even be able to unleash an attack before they died. Offensive power also wouldn't matter as much since the combatant could make up for their lack of offense by simply attacking an insane number of times in a short moment.

This tortoise had obviously pushed its defensive powers to the absolute limit.

If it was impossible to injure it, it wouldn't die. It could just slowly suppress its opponent into nothingness.

Sure, its offensive power and speed were probably not very great, but it had all the time in the world to win.

It probably wouldn't mind slowly exhausting its opponent to death over several hours. At some point, its opponent was bound to make a mistake.

'High defense is the weakness of my Saber State. I wonder if the God chose this opponent on purpose,' Shang thought.

Yes, Shang's Saber State had an insane offensive power, but it was released in the number of attacks he released, not the attacks' individual power.

One turret from Earth could kill thousands of people in one continuous barrage, but it couldn't punch through a tank with the same ammunition. The tank could just drive forward and drive over the turret.

have a lot of destructive potential? Of

the necessary power to penetrate the tank's

Saber State was essentially such

would need to evade for a couple of seconds to let Sword

this tortoise is just perfect for testing my other

end, Shang decided to leave

slowly lifted its mechanical arm and hit

DING!

several Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

them hit the tortoise's

also kill a beast, and Shang could see that the tortoise was

SHING! SHING! SHING!

over thirty metallic spears appeared around

BANG! BANG! BANG!

attacks and made them

unleashing his attacks, and he even started to use Ice Blast to keep his body at a good temperature while running around the

around ten seconds, Shang had already unleashed over a hundred attacks, and he didn't need to stop anytime soon.

ten seconds, some of his attacks began to connect with the tortoise's head, but it wasn't because of Shang's

simply let some of them through so that it didn't waste

its defense indefinitely. Its

Hidden Sun won't get me far against this tortoise,' Shang

BANG!

kept using Ice Blasts to advance toward the tortoise. During the advance, he still kept shooting attacks at the tortoise. His attacks might

Shang approached the tortoise,

this how Mages fight each other?' he thought. 'Is this the kind of battle the powerful Mages have with

only this happening until one of the opponents made a

and maybe

probably the only two that wouldn't get bored by such

why

jester suddenly shouted

Shang didn't answer.

the spears no longer appeared above

kept unleashing

his attacks

ground and swung forward like he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this time, he

and it traveled

CRRRRRRRRR!

as the line arrived below the middle of the tortoise's gigantic body, a gigantic pillar of

welding torch had appeared below the

attacks, but this time, the attack was not explosive, which meant that its spears didn't work. The violent

tortoise saw that, it

spears pointed towards Shang, and

BANG!

move around at incredible speeds. His speed was far faster than the tortoise, and

problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple hours, he might slip up, but

kept releasing more and more pillars, and the violent flame below the tortoise never

turn red with flames, and Shang could tell that the tortoise was

and the next moment, its belly began

was trying to grow until it reached the

CLINK!

of its belly suddenly fell off and hit

had simply created another wall of armor beneath its outer wall and dropped the old

a bit hot but not nearly hot enough to injure

of metal on the ground severely

seemed like Inferno

was the name of