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

simply lacked the necessary power to penetrate the tank's

was essentially such

need to evade for a couple of seconds to

is just perfect for testing

decided to leave

arm and hit the bell with its

DING!

several Shooting Stars

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

tortoise's

also kill a beast, and Shang could see that

SHING! SHING! SHING!

over thirty metallic spears appeared around

BANG! BANG! BANG!

intercepted Shang's attacks and made them detonate early as

and he even started to use Ice Blast to keep his body at a good temperature

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

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

of them through so that it didn't

Shang, the tortoise could probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based on

enough, Shooting Star and Hidden Sun won't get

BANG!

the advance, he still kept shooting attacks at the tortoise. His attacks might not have the power to injure the tortoise, but they stopped it from using its spears to target

Shang approached the tortoise, he had a

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

only this happening until one of the opponents made a

of seconds and maybe

two opponents were probably the only two that wouldn't

why the God

the jester suddenly shouted from his wheel. "It's

Shang didn't answer.

no longer appeared above the tortoise but

just kept

his attacks

he was releasing another Shooting Star,

the ground, and it traveled forward until

CRRRRRRRRR!

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

a gigantic welding

attacks, but this time, the attack was not explosive, which meant that

the tortoise saw that, it

pointed towards Shang, and it

BANG!

was

had to be careful not to get hit by the spears, but that wouldn't be a problem in the short run. Sure, if

tortoise, Shang kept releasing more and more

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

tortoise's attacks stopped, and

was trying to grow until it

CLINK!

its belly suddenly

had simply created another wall of armor

still a bit hot but not nearly hot enough to injure the

new layer of metal on the ground severely weakened Shang's

seemed like Inferno didn't

Inferno was the