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!

simply lacked the necessary power to penetrate

State was essentially

his Saber into a Great Sword. He would need to evade for a

is just perfect for testing

decided to leave his Sword in its Saber

lifted its mechanical arm and hit the bell

DING!

immediately launched several Shooting Stars

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

of them hit the tortoise's head, but it

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

moment, over thirty metallic spears appeared

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Shang's attacks and made them detonate early as its head cooled

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

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

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

some of them through so that

defense indefinitely. Its entire power was

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

BANG!

kept shooting attacks at the

the tortoise, he had

thought. 'Is this the kind of battle the

several hours of only this happening until one of the

maybe even minutes were interesting, but several

opponents were probably the only two

could understand why the God

jester suddenly shouted from his

Shang didn't answer.

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

kept unleashing

then, his

forward like he was releasing

and it traveled forward until it was below the

CRRRRRRRRR!

below the middle of the tortoise's gigantic body, a gigantic pillar of flame shot

was like a gigantic welding torch had

was not explosive,

the tortoise saw that, it changed its

the spears pointed towards Shang, and

BANG!

move around at incredible speeds. His speed was far faster than the tortoise, and it was even a bit

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

the tortoise, Shang kept releasing more and more pillars, and the violent flame below

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

the tortoise's attacks stopped, and the

trying to

CLINK!

of its belly

belly wasn't growing. It had simply created another wall of armor

bit hot but not

layer of metal on the ground

seemed like Inferno didn't

Inferno was the name of this