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.

the turret didn't have a lot of destructive potential? Of course not! After all, it had killed

lacked the necessary power

was essentially

to evade for a couple of seconds to let Sword absorb the ore,

is just perfect for testing my

leave his Sword in its

slowly lifted its mechanical arm and hit the bell with

DING!

immediately launched several Shooting

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

tortoise's head,

a beast, and Shang could see

SHING! SHING! SHING!

over thirty metallic spears appeared around the

BANG! BANG! BANG!

and made them detonate early as its head cooled down

and he even started to use Ice Blast to keep his body

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

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

through so that it didn't waste too

tortoise could probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based on long and drawn-out

Hidden Sun won't

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 they stopped it from using its spears to target

tortoise, he had a

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

imagined several hours of only this happening until one of the

maybe

the only two

understand why the God was

shouted from his wheel.

Shang didn't answer.

spears no longer appeared above the tortoise but beside its body. It could summon

kept unleashing

his

the ground and swung forward like he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this time, he wasn't

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

CRRRRRRRRR!

soon as the line arrived below the middle of the tortoise's gigantic body,

gigantic welding torch had appeared below the

the attack was not explosive, which meant that its

that, it changed

towards Shang, and it

BANG!

using his Ice Blasts to move around at incredible speeds. His speed was

spears, but that wouldn't be a problem in the short run.

tortoise, Shang kept releasing more and more pillars, and

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

that moment, the tortoise's attacks stopped, and the next

like the tortoise's belly was trying to grow

CLINK!

its belly suddenly fell off

created another wall of armor beneath its outer wall and dropped the

hot but not nearly hot enough to injure the

the new layer of metal on the

seemed like

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