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.

that mean that the turret didn't have a lot of destructive potential?

the necessary power to

State was essentially such a

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

is just perfect for testing my other

the end, Shang decided to leave his Sword in

arm

DING!

several Shooting

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

them hit the tortoise's head, but it

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

that moment, over thirty metallic

BANG! BANG! BANG!

spears intercepted Shang's attacks and made them detonate early as its

started to use Ice Blast

over a hundred attacks, and he

attacks began to connect with the tortoise's head,

simply let some of them through

its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based on

won't get me far

BANG!

advance toward the tortoise. During the advance, he still kept shooting attacks at the tortoise. His attacks might not have the power to injure the tortoise, but they

Shang approached the tortoise, he had

thought. 'Is this the kind of battle the powerful Mages have with

happening until one of

a couple of seconds and maybe even minutes were interesting,

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

could understand why the

shouted

Shang didn't answer.

reached the tortoise's gigantic leg. By now, the spears no longer appeared above the tortoise

kept unleashing his

his

the 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 was below the

CRRRRRRRRR!

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

like a gigantic welding torch had

this time, the attack was not explosive, which meant that its spears didn't work. The violent flames simply went around the

saw that, it changed its

spears pointed towards Shang,

BANG!

incredible speeds. His speed was far faster than the tortoise, and it

that wouldn't be a problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple hours, he might slip up, but

releasing more and more pillars, and the violent flame

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

moment, the tortoise's attacks stopped, and the next moment, its

belly was trying to grow until it reached

CLINK!

belly suddenly fell off

wasn't growing. It had simply created another wall of armor beneath its outer wall and dropped

a bit hot but

layer of metal on

seemed like Inferno

Inferno was the name of