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.

lot of destructive potential? Of

the necessary power

State was

He would need to

perfect for

end, Shang decided to leave his Sword in

its mechanical arm and hit

DING!

Shooting Stars

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

them hit the tortoise's head,

could see that the tortoise was already in a bit of

SHING! SHING! SHING!

that moment, over thirty metallic spears appeared

BANG! BANG! BANG!

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

Ice Blast to keep his body at

ten seconds, Shang had already unleashed over a hundred attacks, and he didn't need to stop anytime soon. He could continue this barrage until

with

them through so

probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its

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

BANG!

the tortoise. During the advance, he still kept shooting attacks at the tortoise. His attacks might

Shang approached the tortoise, he

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

only this happening until one of the opponents made

of seconds and maybe even minutes

were probably the only two that wouldn't get

could understand why the God

shouted from

Shang didn't answer.

spears no longer appeared above the tortoise but beside its body.

kept unleashing his

his

swung forward like he was releasing another Shooting Star, but this time, he wasn't using Shooting

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

CRRRRRRRRR!

middle of the tortoise's gigantic body,

gigantic welding

used to using its spears to stop the attacks, but this time, the attack was not explosive, which

that,

towards Shang, and

BANG!

his Ice Blasts to move around at incredible speeds. His speed was far faster than the tortoise, and it was even a bit faster than

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

the tortoise, Shang kept releasing more and more pillars,

flames, and Shang could tell that the tortoise

that moment, the tortoise's attacks stopped, and the next moment, its belly

tortoise's belly was trying to grow until it reached the

CLINK!

belly suddenly fell off

created another wall of armor beneath its outer

layer was still a bit hot but not nearly hot enough to injure the

layer of metal on the ground

like

the name