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 nowhere near

had just retreated again, and its last attack

WHOOOOOM!

Shang could

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

more, Shang even summoned Entropy Ore to

fight was essentially

was only launching pitiful attacks, and it

would run out

focus, meaning it forgot what it

saw his chance

with its incredible

SHING!

streak of warped space shot at the

focus, but it was already

BANG!

head exploded, a burned black hole now

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

powerful attack on its head destroyed all of the peacock's

was another one of Shang's

attack, but compared to Needle, this one had

ball of heat and then

a non-explosive and heavy bullet made of

small bullet would burn through an opponent's defenses and

called this new attack

the peacock was hit by Missile, Shang used Void Break again

he lifted his

peacock was completely absentminded, and it

above the

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

head exploded

attacks, but its destructive power was extremely

natural defenses weren't very

the

returned, and the body slowly

in my inner world without fear of being found

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remembered what

was a

a far

peacock definitely hadn't