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 to penetrate the

State was essentially such

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

this tortoise is just perfect for testing

decided to leave

slowly lifted its mechanical arm and hit

DING!

immediately launched several Shooting Stars and

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

tortoise's

Shang could see

SHING! SHING! SHING!

that moment, over thirty metallic spears appeared around the

BANG! BANG! BANG!

intercepted Shang's attacks and made them detonate early

use Ice Blast to keep his body at a

around ten seconds, Shang had already unleashed over a hundred attacks, and he didn't need to stop anytime soon. He could continue

his attacks began to connect with the tortoise's

simply let some of them through so that it didn't waste too

defense

won't get me far

BANG!

advance toward the tortoise. During the advance, he still kept shooting attacks at

the tortoise, he had

each other?' he thought. 'Is this

only this happening until one of the

seconds and maybe even minutes were interesting,

two opponents were probably the only two that wouldn't get

understand why the

shouted

Shang didn't answer.

longer appeared above the tortoise but beside its body. It could summon

kept unleashing his

his attacks suddenly

like he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this time, he

line appeared on the ground, and

CRRRRRRRRR!

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

a gigantic welding torch had

tortoise was used to using its spears to stop the attacks, but this time, the attack was not explosive, which meant that its spears didn't

saw that, it

spears pointed towards Shang, and

BANG!

incredible speeds. His speed was

wouldn't be a problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple hours, he might slip up, but not

bursting around the tortoise, Shang kept releasing more and more pillars, and the violent flame

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

moment, the tortoise's attacks stopped, and the

was like the tortoise's belly was trying

CLINK!

belly suddenly fell off and hit the

another wall of armor beneath its outer wall and dropped the

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

layer of metal on the ground severely weakened

like Inferno

Inferno was the