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 not! After all, it had

the necessary power to penetrate the tank's

was

He would need to evade for a couple of seconds to

this tortoise is just perfect for testing my

to leave his Sword in its Saber

its mechanical arm and hit the bell

DING!

Shooting Stars and Hidden

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

hit the tortoise's

see

SHING! SHING! SHING!

metallic spears appeared

BANG! BANG! BANG!

them detonate early as

started to use Ice Blast to keep his

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

these ten seconds, some of his attacks began to connect with

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

like Shang, the tortoise could probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based

and Hidden Sun won't get me far against this

BANG!

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

tortoise, he had a

other?' he thought. 'Is this the kind of battle the

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

and maybe

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

could understand why

suddenly shouted from his wheel.

Shang didn't answer.

appeared above the tortoise but beside

just kept unleashing

then, his attacks

ground and swung forward like he was releasing another Shooting

on the ground, and it

CRRRRRRRRR!

arrived below the middle of the tortoise's gigantic

gigantic welding torch had appeared

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

tortoise saw that,

the spears pointed towards Shang, and

BANG!

His speed was far faster than

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 up, but not in just a

Shang kept releasing more and more pillars, and the

and Shang could tell that the tortoise was in quite

tortoise's attacks stopped, and the

trying to

CLINK!

metal of its belly suddenly fell off and hit the

another wall of armor beneath its outer

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

on the

seemed like Inferno didn't

the name of