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.

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

necessary power to

State was

Saber into a Great Sword. He would need to evade for a couple of seconds to let Sword absorb

this tortoise is just perfect for

the end, Shang decided to leave

arm and hit the

DING!

immediately launched several Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

of them hit the tortoise's head, but it only heated

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

that moment, over thirty metallic spears appeared around

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Shang's attacks and made them detonate early as

his attacks, and he even started to use Ice Blast to keep his body at a

unleashed over a hundred attacks, and he didn't

with the tortoise's head, but it wasn't because

of them through

defense indefinitely. Its entire power was

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

BANG!

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

approached the tortoise, he

this how Mages fight each other?' he thought. 'Is this the

several hours of only this happening until one of the opponents

and maybe even minutes were interesting,

two opponents were probably the only two that wouldn't get bored by

why the God was

the jester suddenly shouted

Shang didn't answer.

no longer appeared above

just kept

his attacks

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

red line appeared on the ground, and it traveled forward until it

CRRRRRRRRR!

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

like a gigantic welding torch had appeared below

the attack was not explosive, which meant

saw that,

pointed towards Shang,

BANG!

was far faster than the tortoise, and it was even a

a problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple

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

tortoise's belly started to turn red with flames, and Shang could tell that the tortoise was in quite

attacks stopped, and the next moment, its belly began to

was like the tortoise's belly was trying to grow until it

CLINK!

the metal of its belly suddenly fell

wall of armor

new layer was still a bit hot but

of metal on the ground severely weakened

seemed like Inferno didn't

was the