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.

that the turret didn't have a lot of destructive potential? Of course not! After all,

simply lacked the necessary power to penetrate

Saber State was essentially such a

He would need to evade for a

this tortoise is just perfect for testing

Shang decided to leave his

its mechanical arm and hit

DING!

Shooting Stars and

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

them hit the tortoise's

and Shang could see that the tortoise was already

SHING! SHING! SHING!

metallic

BANG! BANG! BANG!

them detonate early as its head cooled down

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

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

attacks began to connect with

tortoise simply let some of them through so

tortoise could probably continue keeping up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based on

Star and Hidden Sun won't get me far against

BANG!

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

tortoise, he had

this the kind of battle the

hours of only this happening until one of the opponents made

couple of seconds and maybe even minutes were interesting,

two

understand why the God

shouted from his wheel.

Shang didn't answer.

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

kept

his attacks suddenly

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

fiery red line appeared on the ground, and it traveled forward until it was below the

CRRRRRRRRR!

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

was like a gigantic welding

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

the tortoise saw that,

spears pointed towards Shang,

BANG!

speed was far faster than the tortoise, and it was even a bit

problem in the short run. Sure, if he did that for

kept releasing more and more pillars, and the violent flame below the tortoise never

tortoise's belly started to turn red with flames, and Shang could tell that the tortoise

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

was trying to grow until it

CLINK!

belly suddenly fell off and hit the

It had simply created another wall of

still a bit hot but not nearly

the new layer of metal on the ground severely weakened

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