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.

of destructive potential? Of course not! After all, it had killed thousands of humans

the necessary power

Saber State was essentially such

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

perfect for

Shang decided to leave his Sword in its Saber

arm and hit the bell with

DING!

immediately launched several Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

hit the tortoise's head, but it only

beast, and Shang could see that the tortoise was already in a bit of

SHING! SHING! SHING!

thirty metallic spears

BANG! BANG! BANG!

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

use Ice Blast to keep his body

had already unleashed over a hundred attacks, and he didn't

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

tortoise simply let some of them through so that it

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

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

BANG!

attacks at the tortoise. His attacks might not have the power to injure the tortoise,

the tortoise, he

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

this happening until one

couple of seconds and maybe even minutes were

two opponents were probably the only two that

understand why the God

shouted from his

Shang didn't answer.

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

just kept unleashing his

then, his

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

appeared on the ground, and it traveled forward

CRRRRRRRRR!

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

a gigantic welding torch

this time, the attack was not explosive, which meant that its spears

saw that,

spears pointed towards Shang, and it

BANG!

speed was far faster than the

wouldn't be a problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple

releasing more and more pillars, and the violent flame below

the tortoise's belly started to turn red with flames, and Shang

and the next moment, its belly began to

like the tortoise's belly was trying to

CLINK!

metal of its belly suddenly fell

of armor beneath its

a bit hot but not nearly

the new layer of metal on

seemed like Inferno didn't

was the name