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

necessary power to penetrate the

was essentially such

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

just perfect

leave his Sword in

mechanical arm and

DING!

Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

hit the tortoise's head, but it only

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

metallic spears

BANG! BANG! BANG!

attacks and made them detonate early as its head cooled

he even started to use Ice Blast to

attacks, and he didn't need to stop

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

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

keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was

enough, Shooting Star and Hidden Sun won't get me

BANG!

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 they stopped it from using its

Shang approached the tortoise,

'Is this the kind of battle the powerful Mages have

hours of only this happening until

and maybe even

opponents were probably the only two

could understand why

suddenly shouted from his wheel.

Shang didn't answer.

appeared above the tortoise but beside its body.

just kept unleashing

then, his

like he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this

ground, and it traveled forward until it was

CRRRRRRRRR!

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

a gigantic welding torch

the attack was not explosive, which meant

tortoise saw that, it changed

towards Shang, and it

BANG!

His speed was far faster than

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

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

red with flames, and Shang could tell that the

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

was trying to grow

CLINK!

its belly suddenly fell off and hit the

wall of armor beneath

but not nearly hot enough to injure

on the ground

like Inferno didn't

was the name