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!

lacked the necessary power to penetrate the tank's

was

a Great Sword. He would need to evade for a

tortoise is just perfect for testing

to leave his Sword in its Saber

its mechanical arm and hit the

DING!

immediately launched several Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

hit the tortoise's head,

and Shang could see

SHING! SHING! SHING!

metallic spears appeared

BANG! BANG! BANG!

metallic spears intercepted Shang's attacks and made them detonate early

Ice Blast to keep

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

with the

some of them through so that it didn't

continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based

enough, Shooting Star and Hidden Sun won't get me

BANG!

shooting attacks at the

the tortoise, he had a

this how Mages fight each other?' he thought. 'Is this

this happening until

of seconds and maybe

only two that wouldn't get bored

why the

shouted from his wheel.

Shang didn't answer.

reached the tortoise's gigantic leg. By now, the spears no longer appeared above the tortoise but beside its body. It could summon the spears

kept

his

like he was releasing another

and

CRRRRRRRRR!

middle of the tortoise's gigantic body,

welding torch had appeared below the

attacks, but this time, the attack was not explosive, which meant that its spears didn't work. The violent flames simply went

tortoise saw that,

towards Shang, and

BANG!

speed was far faster than the tortoise, and

a problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for multiple hours, he might slip up,

and more pillars, and the violent flame

flames, and Shang could tell that the tortoise was in quite a lot of

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

trying to

CLINK!

metal of its belly suddenly fell off and hit the

It had simply created another wall of armor beneath its outer wall and

new layer was still a bit hot but not nearly hot enough to

metal on the ground severely weakened Shang's

seemed like Inferno didn't

was the name