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

the necessary power to

was essentially such a

He would need to evade for a couple of

tortoise is just perfect

end, Shang decided to leave his Sword in

jester slowly lifted its mechanical arm and hit the bell with its

DING!

launched several Shooting

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

them hit the tortoise's head, but

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

over thirty metallic spears appeared around the

BANG! BANG! BANG!

made them detonate early as its head cooled

he even started to use Ice Blast to keep

over a hundred attacks, and he didn't need to

attacks began to connect with the tortoise's head, but it wasn't because of Shang's

them through so that it didn't waste

defense

and Hidden Sun won't get

BANG!

Shang changed his trajectory and kept using 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

the tortoise,

other?' he thought. 'Is this the kind of battle the powerful Mages

this happening until one of the opponents

couple of seconds and maybe even minutes

were probably the only two that wouldn't get

understand why the God

jester suddenly shouted from

Shang didn't answer.

leg. By now, the spears no longer appeared above the tortoise but beside its body. It could summon the spears

kept unleashing his

his

like he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this time, he wasn't using Shooting

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

CRRRRRRRRR!

of the tortoise's gigantic body, a

like a gigantic welding

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

that, it

towards Shang, and it

BANG!

Ice Blasts to move around at incredible speeds. His speed was far faster than the tortoise, and

the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple hours,

more pillars, and the violent flame

and Shang could tell that the

stopped, and

like the tortoise's belly was trying to

CLINK!

belly suddenly fell off and

had simply created another wall of armor beneath its outer wall and dropped

still a bit hot but not nearly hot enough to

layer of metal on the ground severely weakened Shang's

like Inferno

the name of