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.

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

lacked the necessary power to penetrate the tank's

Saber State was essentially such

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

is just perfect for testing

end, Shang decided to leave his Sword in

its mechanical arm

DING!

several Shooting

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

the tortoise's head, but it only heated

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

moment, over thirty metallic spears appeared around the

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Shang's attacks and made them detonate early as

started to use Ice Blast to keep his body at a good

he

attacks began to connect with the

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

could probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its

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

BANG!

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

the tortoise,

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

hours of only this happening until one of the opponents

couple of seconds and maybe even minutes

opponents were probably the only two that wouldn't get bored by such a

why the God was

suddenly shouted from

Shang didn't answer.

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

just kept unleashing

then, his

he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this time, he wasn't

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

CRRRRRRRRR!

line arrived below the middle of the tortoise's gigantic body, a gigantic pillar of

like a gigantic welding torch had

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

that, it

pointed towards Shang,

BANG!

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

careful 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 slip

kept releasing more and more pillars, and the violent flame below

belly started to turn red with flames, and Shang could tell that the tortoise was in quite

and the next moment,

like the tortoise's belly was trying to

CLINK!

belly suddenly fell off and hit

created another wall of armor beneath its

bit hot but not

layer of metal on the ground severely

like Inferno

was the name of