Sword God in a World of Magic

Over the next couple of seconds, the peacock continued running while launching pathetic attacks.

It was still faster and more powerful than Shang.

Yet, it had severe problems with its focus.

Sometimes, it even forgot what it had just wanted to do.

Naturally, this was the effect of Shang's Needle.

One had to remember that Shang had constantly remained in a heavily injured state throughout the fight.

When he healed his old injuries, they were quickly replaced by new ones.

Shang had been in such an injured state on purpose to refill his Death Mana.

Additionally, whenever the peacock injured Shang, he received more Death Mana.

After eliminating the space between him and the peacock, Shang had filled the Needle with Death Mana with the Concept of Purgatory again.

When Shang had used Radiation earlier, the effects of Purgatory had been spread across the opponent's body.

Weaker muscles.

Less focus.

Slower.

Not as resilient.

However, Shang's Needle was a precision attack, and it focused all the effects of Purgatory on the spot it touched, which had been the peacock's forehead.

This meant that all the effects had been focused on the peacock's mind.

This put the peacock's mind into an early stage of dementia.

It was a weak and old mind in the body of a young and powerful beast.

The peacock wasted a lot of its Mana in weak attacks, and Shang could even focus on actually slowly inspecting his surroundings.

Instead of rapidly absorbing all the surrounding Mana with Void Break, Shang was using Void Break very slowly to look at all the Mana he was absorbing.

Naturally, this meant that Shang couldn't absorb as much Mana as usual and that it took several times longer.

However, the end result was that Shang could tell where all the foreign and hidden Blaze was located.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

individual pockets of Blaze were exploding

and its last

WHOOOOOM!

meant that Shang could use

Void Break two more

Entropy Ore to

fight was essentially

launching pitiful attacks, and it was using far more Mana

run out of

a while, Shang saw the peacock's eyes lose focus, meaning it forgot what it had

saw his chance and

its

SHING!

warped space shot at the

peacock's eyes regained focus, but it

BANG!

peacock's head exploded, a burned black hole

reached the peacock's brain, but it

still alive, but the powerful attack on its head destroyed all of the

another one of

but compared to Needle, this one

creating a small ball of

essentially made a non-explosive and heavy bullet

an opponent's defenses and

this new

Void Break again to refill his Addum with

he lifted his Addum

was completely absentminded, and it

space above the peacock

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

head

of Shang's slower attacks, but its

the peacock's natural defenses weren't

headless body fell to the ground,

applause returned, and the body

sigh. 'Fortunately, I can use Entropy in my inner world without fear of being found out. Without it, I probably

Average Initial Beast Lord," the

that moment, Shang remembered what he had just

That was a weak Initial

was a far below-average Beast

hadn't been