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.

turret didn't have a lot of destructive potential? Of course not! After all, it had killed thousands of humans

lacked the necessary power to penetrate

was essentially

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

tortoise is just perfect for testing

to leave his Sword in

arm

DING!

Shooting Stars

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

tortoise's head,

Shang could see that the

SHING! SHING! SHING!

metallic spears appeared around

BANG! BANG! BANG!

them detonate early as its head

Ice Blast to keep his body

attacks, and he

his attacks began to connect with the tortoise's head, but it wasn't because

them through so that it didn't waste

up its defense indefinitely. Its entire power was based on long and drawn-out

Star and Hidden Sun won't get

BANG!

kept shooting attacks at the tortoise. His attacks might not have the power to injure the

approached the tortoise, he

this the kind of battle the powerful Mages have

only this happening until

of seconds and maybe even minutes were

only two that wouldn't get bored

why the God

suddenly shouted from his wheel. "It's

Shang didn't answer.

the spears no longer appeared

kept unleashing his

his

releasing another Shooting Star, but this time, he

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

CRRRRRRRRR!

the line arrived below the middle of the tortoise's gigantic body, a gigantic

gigantic welding torch had

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

the tortoise saw that, it changed

spears pointed towards Shang,

BANG!

his Ice Blasts to move around at incredible speeds. His speed was far faster than 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

Shang kept releasing more and more pillars, and the violent

turn red with flames, and Shang could tell that the

attacks stopped, and the

tortoise's belly was trying

CLINK!

metal of its belly suddenly fell off and hit the

simply created another wall of

bit hot but not nearly hot enough to

new layer of metal on the ground severely weakened Shang's

seemed like Inferno didn't

was the