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

lacked the necessary power

was essentially such a

would need to evade

just perfect

decided to leave his Sword

jester slowly lifted its mechanical arm and hit the bell

DING!

several Shooting

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

them hit the tortoise's head,

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

thirty metallic spears appeared around

BANG! BANG! BANG!

intercepted Shang's attacks and made them detonate early as its head cooled down

Ice Blast to keep his body at a

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

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

of them through so

probably continue keeping up its defense

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

BANG!

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

the tortoise, he had a

this the kind of battle the powerful Mages have with each

several hours of only this happening until

a couple of seconds and maybe even minutes were

probably the only two that

understand why the God

suddenly shouted from

Shang didn't answer.

leg. By now, the spears no longer appeared above

just kept unleashing his

his

he was releasing another

fiery red line appeared on the ground, and it

CRRRRRRRRR!

of the tortoise's

like a gigantic welding torch had appeared below the

stop the attacks, but this time, the attack was not explosive, which meant that its spears didn't work. The violent flames simply went around

the tortoise saw that, it changed

the spears pointed towards Shang, and it

BANG!

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

a problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple hours, he might slip up, but not in just

and more pillars, and the violent flame

flames, and Shang

stopped, and the next moment, its

was trying to grow

CLINK!

belly suddenly fell off and hit the

It had simply created another wall of armor

but not nearly hot enough

on

seemed like Inferno didn't

the name