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.

a lot of destructive potential? Of course not! After all, it had killed

simply lacked the necessary power to

was essentially such

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

perfect for testing

to leave his Sword

slowly lifted its mechanical arm and hit

DING!

launched several Shooting

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

them hit the tortoise's head, but it

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

thirty metallic spears

BANG! BANG! BANG!

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

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

attacks, and he didn't need to stop anytime soon. He could continue this

with

simply let some of them through so that it

like 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

BANG!

Blasts to 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 stopped it from using

tortoise, he

he thought. 'Is this the kind of battle the

only this happening until one of the opponents made

a couple of seconds and maybe

only two that wouldn't get bored by such a

why the

shouted from his wheel. "It's

Shang didn't answer.

By now, the spears no longer appeared above the tortoise but beside its

kept unleashing his

his

he was releasing another Shooting

fiery red line appeared on the ground, and it

CRRRRRRRRR!

the tortoise's gigantic body, a gigantic pillar

was like a gigantic welding torch had appeared below

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

the tortoise saw that,

pointed towards

BANG!

Blasts to move around at incredible speeds. His speed was far

the short run. Sure, if he did

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

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

tortoise's attacks stopped, and the next moment, its belly began to

the tortoise's belly was trying to

CLINK!

its belly suddenly fell

wall of armor beneath its outer wall and

still a bit hot but not nearly hot enough to injure

layer of metal on the

seemed like Inferno

Inferno was the name of this