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!

a vast space, individual pockets of Blaze were exploding while

retreated again, and its last attack

WHOOOOOM!

meant that Shang could use

Break two more times to refill the Mana of

Entropy Ore to allow his Addum to return to its

fight was

was only launching pitiful attacks, and it was using far more Mana than it

would run out of

saw the peacock's eyes lose focus, meaning it forgot what

saw his chance

Addum warped the surroundings with its

SHING!

space shot

regained focus, but

BANG!

peacock's head exploded, a

burned hole reached the peacock's brain, but it didn't

still alive, but the powerful attack on

another one of Shang's

attack, but compared to Needle, this one

launched this attack by creating a small ball

essentially made a non-explosive and heavy bullet made of extremely hot

opponent's defenses and

called this

Missile, Shang used Void Break again to

lifted his

it couldn't take note of its

space above the

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

head exploded into

attacks,

the peacock's natural defenses weren't

headless body fell to the ground, and Shang

and the body slowly

I can use Entropy in my inner world without fear of being found out. Without it, I probably wouldn't have

Initial Beast Lord," the voice

moment, Shang remembered what he had just

That was a weak Initial Beast

was a far below-average

hadn't been a