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 the turret didn't have a lot of destructive potential? Of course

necessary power to penetrate

State was essentially such a

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

just perfect for

end, Shang decided to leave his

jester slowly lifted its mechanical arm and hit the

DING!

launched several Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

the tortoise's head, but it

and Shang could see that the tortoise was already in

SHING! SHING! SHING!

thirty metallic spears appeared around the

BANG! BANG! BANG!

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

use Ice Blast to keep his body at a good temperature

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

these ten seconds, some of his attacks began to connect with the

through so that it didn't waste too

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

Sun won't get me far against this tortoise,' Shang

BANG!

changed his trajectory and kept using Ice Blasts to advance toward the tortoise. During the advance, he still kept shooting attacks at the

Shang approached the tortoise, he had

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

hours of only this happening until one of the

maybe even minutes were

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

why the God

shouted from his wheel.

Shang didn't answer.

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

kept

his attacks

Saber touched the ground and swung forward like he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this

on the ground, and it traveled forward until it was below

CRRRRRRRRR!

middle of the tortoise's

like a gigantic welding torch had appeared below the

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

the tortoise saw that, it

pointed towards Shang, and it

BANG!

His speed was far faster than the tortoise, and it was even a bit faster than its

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

more pillars, and the violent flame below the tortoise

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

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

the tortoise's belly was trying to

CLINK!

its belly suddenly fell

of armor beneath its outer wall and

but not

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

seemed like

the