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.

potential? Of course not! After all,

necessary power to penetrate the

was

into a Great Sword. He would need to evade for a couple of

this tortoise is just perfect

to leave his Sword in its Saber

slowly lifted its mechanical arm

DING!

launched several Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

tortoise's head, but it only heated

also kill a beast, and Shang could see

SHING! SHING! SHING!

thirty metallic spears appeared around the

BANG! BANG! BANG!

made them detonate

continued unleashing his attacks, and he even started to use Ice Blast

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

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

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

the tortoise could probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power

Hidden Sun won't get

BANG!

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

tortoise, he

Mages fight each other?' he thought. 'Is this the kind of battle the powerful Mages have

this happening until one of the opponents made

couple of seconds and maybe

only two that

understand why the God was

the jester suddenly shouted from his wheel.

Shang didn't answer.

leg. By now, the spears no longer appeared above the tortoise

kept unleashing

his attacks

was releasing another Shooting Star, but this time, he

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

CRRRRRRRRR!

line arrived below the middle of the

a gigantic welding torch had

the attacks, but this time, the attack was not explosive, which meant that its

the tortoise saw that, it changed its

pointed towards Shang, and

BANG!

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

not to get hit by the spears, but that wouldn't be a problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple hours, he might

and more pillars,

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

attacks stopped, and the next moment, its belly began to

tortoise's belly was trying to grow until it reached

CLINK!

its belly suddenly fell off

It had simply created another wall of armor beneath

hot but not nearly hot enough

on

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