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

lacked the necessary power

State was essentially such a

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

tortoise is just perfect for testing

Shang decided to leave his

arm and hit the bell with

DING!

launched several Shooting Stars

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

the tortoise's head, but it only heated

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

metallic spears

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Shang's attacks and made them

Ice Blast to

he didn't need to stop anytime soon.

to connect with the tortoise's head, but it wasn't because

through

probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based

Star and Hidden Sun won't get me

BANG!

Ice 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

tortoise, he had a

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

hours of only this happening until one

of seconds and maybe even minutes were interesting, but

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

why the God was

shouted from

Shang didn't answer.

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

kept

his attacks

he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this

red line appeared on the ground, and it traveled forward until

CRRRRRRRRR!

middle of the tortoise's gigantic body,

gigantic welding torch had

attack was not explosive, which meant that its spears didn't

saw that, it changed

the spears pointed towards Shang, and it

BANG!

at incredible speeds. His speed was far

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

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

and Shang could tell that the tortoise was in quite a lot

attacks stopped, and the next moment, its belly began

tortoise's belly was trying to

CLINK!

belly suddenly fell off and hit the

another wall of armor

still a bit hot but not nearly hot enough to injure

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

like Inferno

Inferno was the name