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.

have a lot of destructive potential? Of course not!

power to penetrate

was

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

perfect for testing my other

leave his Sword in its

its mechanical arm and hit the bell

DING!

immediately launched several Shooting

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

tortoise's head, but it

could see that the tortoise was already

SHING! SHING! SHING!

over thirty metallic spears appeared around

BANG! BANG! BANG!

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

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

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

with

through so that

probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its

Sun won't get me far against this

BANG!

During the advance, he still kept shooting attacks at the tortoise. His attacks might not

Shang approached the tortoise, he had a

thought. 'Is this the kind of battle the powerful

several hours of only this happening until one of the opponents made a

of seconds and maybe even minutes

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

why

jester suddenly shouted

Shang didn't answer.

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

just kept unleashing his

his attacks

he was releasing another Shooting

appeared on the ground, and it traveled forward until it

CRRRRRRRRR!

the line arrived below the middle of the

gigantic welding torch

time, the attack was not explosive,

the tortoise saw that, it

towards Shang, and it

BANG!

His speed was far faster than the

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

bursting around the tortoise, Shang kept releasing more and more pillars, and the

and Shang could tell that the

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

trying to grow until

CLINK!

of its belly suddenly fell off and hit

wasn't growing. It had simply created another wall of armor beneath its outer wall and

was still a bit hot but not nearly hot enough

new layer of metal on the

like

was the name of this