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

just retreated again, and its

WHOOOOOM!

meant that Shang could use

he used Void Break two more times to

Entropy Ore to allow

was essentially

and it was using far more Mana than

would run out of

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

chance

warped the surroundings with its incredible heat

SHING!

of warped space shot at

focus, but it was

BANG!

peacock's head exploded, a burned

hole reached the peacock's brain, but

attack on its

was another one of

compared to Needle, this

creating a small ball of heat and then infusing

a non-explosive and heavy bullet made of

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

this new attack

peacock was hit by Missile, Shang used Void Break again to refill

lifted

it couldn't take

above

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

peacock's head

of Shang's slower attacks, but its destructive power was

the peacock's natural defenses weren't

fell to the ground, and Shang

applause returned, and

can use Entropy in my inner world without fear of being found out. Without it,

Beast Lord," the

remembered what

a weak Initial Beast

was a far

hadn't