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!

pockets of Blaze were exploding while Shang was

retreated again, and its last attack had

WHOOOOOM!

Shang could use Void

Break two more times to refill

Ore to allow his Addum to return to

fight was

was only launching pitiful attacks, and it was using

run out of Mana

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

his chance and readied his

surroundings with its incredible

SHING!

warped space shot at the distant

eyes regained focus, but it was already

BANG!

the peacock's head exploded, a

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

attack on its

another one of Shang's

compared to Needle, this one had far more destructive

launched this attack by creating a small ball

essentially made a non-explosive and heavy

small bullet would burn through an opponent's defenses

this new

peacock was hit by Missile, Shang used Void

lifted his Addum

and it couldn't

above the peacock

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

head exploded

one of Shang's slower attacks, but its destructive

natural

the

applause returned, and the

can use Entropy in my inner world without fear

Beast Lord," the

that moment, Shang remembered what he

a

a far

hadn't