His claws dug through the hard silver splitting it into two parts. He broke it inch by inch as the crack become bigger and bigger as he went in slowly. Every time the rift gained a length the ancient letters cracked one after another. The shield in fact was one of a high level magic. The ancient writing and the pattern of the letters were part of almost instinct spells, in this world of supernatural beings only a handful of people were able to use it and most of those are either dead or on the run.