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!

Blaze were exploding while Shang was nowhere near

again, and its last attack had

WHOOOOOM!

Shang could use

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

more, Shang even summoned Entropy Ore to

was

peacock was only launching pitiful attacks, and it was using

out of

eyes lose focus,

saw his chance and readied his

warped the surroundings with its incredible heat as it swung

SHING!

thin streak of warped space

peacock's eyes regained focus, but it was

BANG!

front of the peacock's head exploded, a burned black hole now visible on

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

alive, but the powerful attack on its head destroyed

another one of Shang's

precision attack, but compared to

a small ball of heat

and heavy bullet made of

small bullet would burn through an opponent's defenses and spread its heat deep

called this

used Void Break

lifted his

was completely absentminded, and it couldn't take note

above the

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

peacock's head exploded

of Shang's slower attacks, but its

peacock's natural defenses weren't

body fell to the ground, and Shang took

returned, and the body

in my inner world

17: Average Initial Beast Lord," the voice

moment, Shang remembered what

That was a weak Initial Beast

a far

peacock definitely hadn't