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!

space, individual pockets of Blaze were

again, and its last attack

WHOOOOOM!

could use Void

Shang chased the peacock, he used Void Break two

Shang even summoned Entropy Ore to allow his Addum to return to its

fight was essentially

pitiful attacks, and it was using far more

out of

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

chance

warped the surroundings with its incredible heat

SHING!

space

peacock's eyes regained focus, but it was

BANG!

peacock's head exploded, a burned black hole now

reached the peacock's brain,

powerful attack on its head destroyed all

another one of Shang's

a long-range precision attack, but compared to Needle, this one had

launched this attack by creating a small ball of heat and

heavy bullet made of extremely

an opponent's defenses and spread its heat deep into

called this new attack

used Void Break again to refill his Addum

lifted his Addum

peacock was completely absentminded, and it

space above the peacock

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

head exploded into

slower attacks,

natural defenses weren't

peacock's headless body fell to the

and

inner world without fear of being found out. Without it, I probably wouldn't have

17: Average Initial Beast Lord," the

that moment, Shang remembered

That was a

a far below-average

definitely hadn't been