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

simply lacked the necessary power to

Saber State was essentially such a

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

just perfect for testing my other

the end, Shang decided to leave his

mechanical arm and hit the

DING!

launched several Shooting Stars

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

tortoise's

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

SHING! SHING! SHING!

metallic spears appeared

BANG! BANG! BANG!

them detonate

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

a hundred attacks, and he didn't need to stop anytime soon. He could continue

connect with the tortoise's head, but it

through so that it

probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based on long and

Sun won't get me

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 using its spears to target

approached the tortoise,

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

this happening until one of the opponents

a couple of seconds and maybe even minutes were interesting, but several

the only two that

why

jester suddenly shouted from his wheel.

Shang didn't answer.

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

just kept

his

was releasing another

ground, and it traveled forward until it was below

CRRRRRRRRR!

the middle of the tortoise's gigantic body, a gigantic pillar of flame

a gigantic welding torch

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

the tortoise saw that, it changed

spears pointed towards

BANG!

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

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

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

started to turn red with flames, and Shang could tell that

and the next moment, its belly

like the tortoise's belly was trying to grow

CLINK!

belly suddenly fell

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

was still a bit hot but not

metal on the ground severely weakened Shang's

seemed like Inferno

the name of this