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

retreated again, and its last attack had

WHOOOOOM!

could use Void Break

he used Void Break two more times to refill the Mana of his

summoned Entropy Ore to

was essentially already

launching pitiful attacks, and it was using far

would run out of Mana

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

chance

the surroundings with its

SHING!

warped space shot at

but it was

BANG!

exploded, a burned black

reached the peacock's brain, but it

peacock was still alive, but the powerful attack on its head

was another one

attack, but compared to Needle, this one had far more

attack by creating a small ball of

non-explosive and heavy bullet made of extremely

an opponent's defenses and spread its heat

this new attack

by Missile, Shang used Void

he lifted his

completely absentminded, and it

space above the

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

head exploded

one of Shang's slower attacks, but its

peacock's natural

peacock's headless body fell to the ground,

applause returned, and the

sigh. 'Fortunately, I can use Entropy in my inner world without fear

17: Average Initial Beast Lord,"

Shang remembered

a

far below-average

hadn't been a