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.

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

simply lacked the necessary power to penetrate the tank's

State was essentially such a

changing his Saber into a Great Sword. He would need to evade

just perfect for testing my other

leave his

mechanical arm and hit the bell with

DING!

several Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

tortoise's head,

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

thirty metallic spears appeared around the

BANG! BANG! BANG!

intercepted Shang's attacks and made them detonate early

and he even started to use Ice Blast to keep his body at a good temperature while running around

around ten seconds, Shang had already unleashed over a hundred attacks, and he didn't need to stop

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

some of them through so that it didn't waste too much

its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based

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

BANG!

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

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

imagined several hours of only this happening until

seconds and maybe even minutes were

opponents were probably the only two that wouldn't

why the God was

the jester suddenly shouted from his wheel. "It's

Shang didn't answer.

a while, Shang reached the tortoise's gigantic leg. By now, the spears no longer appeared above the tortoise

just kept unleashing his

then, his attacks suddenly

ground and swung forward like he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this

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

CRRRRRRRRR!

arrived below the middle of the

welding torch had appeared

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

that, it

the spears pointed towards Shang,

BANG!

around at incredible speeds. His speed was far faster than the tortoise, and it was even a bit faster than

problem in the short run.

kept releasing more and more pillars,

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

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

like the tortoise's belly was trying to grow

CLINK!

the metal of its belly suddenly fell off and

wall of armor beneath

hot but not

on

like Inferno didn't

the