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.

the turret didn't have a lot of destructive potential? Of course not! After all, it had killed thousands of

power to penetrate

was

need to evade for a

perfect for

the end, Shang decided to leave his Sword in its Saber

slowly lifted its mechanical arm and

DING!

immediately launched several Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

the tortoise's head, but it only

and Shang could see that the tortoise

SHING! SHING! SHING!

over thirty metallic spears appeared

BANG! BANG! BANG!

intercepted Shang's attacks and made them detonate early

he even started to use Ice Blast to keep his body at a good temperature while running around

and he didn't need to stop anytime soon. He could continue this barrage

seconds, some of his attacks began to connect with the tortoise's head,

tortoise simply let some of them through so

probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its

enough, Shooting Star and Hidden Sun won't get me far against this

BANG!

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

tortoise, he had

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

hours of only this happening until one of the opponents made a

couple of seconds and maybe even

two opponents were probably the only two that wouldn't

could understand why the God

suddenly shouted from his

Shang didn't answer.

gigantic leg. By now, the spears no longer appeared above the tortoise but beside its body. It could

kept unleashing his

then, his

the ground and swung forward like he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this time, he wasn't

red line appeared on the ground, and

CRRRRRRRRR!

the middle of the tortoise's gigantic body, a

was like a gigantic welding

used to using its spears to stop the attacks, but this time, the attack was not explosive, which meant that its spears didn't work.

tortoise saw that,

pointed towards Shang, and it

BANG!

at incredible speeds. His speed was

to be careful not to get hit by the spears, but that wouldn't be a problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple hours, he might slip up, but not in just a couple of

more

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

that moment, the tortoise's attacks stopped, and the

belly was trying to grow until it

CLINK!

the metal of its belly suddenly fell off and

wall of armor beneath its outer wall and

new layer was still a bit hot but not nearly hot enough

metal on the ground severely

like Inferno

Inferno was the