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.

destructive potential? Of course not! After all, it had

lacked the necessary power to penetrate the tank's

State was essentially such

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

this tortoise is just perfect for testing

to leave his

mechanical arm and hit the bell

DING!

several Shooting Stars and

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

hit the tortoise's head, but it

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

metallic spears

BANG! BANG! BANG!

them detonate early as its head cooled

started to use Ice Blast to keep his

unleashed over a hundred attacks, and he didn't need to stop anytime soon.

of his attacks began to connect with the tortoise's head,

some of them through so that

probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely.

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

BANG!

toward the tortoise. During the advance, he still kept shooting attacks at the tortoise. His attacks might not

Shang approached the tortoise,

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

imagined several hours of only this happening until one

and maybe even

were probably the only two that wouldn't

understand why the

the jester suddenly shouted from

Shang didn't answer.

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

kept unleashing his

his

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

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

CRRRRRRRRR!

of the tortoise's gigantic body, a gigantic pillar of

like a gigantic welding torch had appeared

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 work. The violent flames simply went

the tortoise saw that, it changed

spears pointed towards

BANG!

incredible speeds. His speed was far faster than the tortoise,

the short run. Sure, if he

more pillars, and the violent

belly started to turn red with flames, and Shang could tell that the tortoise was in quite a

and

like the tortoise's belly was trying to grow

CLINK!

then, the metal of its belly suddenly fell off and

belly wasn't growing. It had simply created another wall of

was still a bit hot but not nearly hot

metal on the ground

like

Inferno was the name of