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!

vast space, individual pockets of Blaze were exploding while Shang

had just retreated again, and

WHOOOOOM!

could use

Void Break two more times to refill

Shang even summoned Entropy Ore to allow his

was essentially already

pitiful attacks, and it was

would run out of

lose focus, meaning it forgot what it had

his chance and readied his

Addum warped the surroundings with its incredible heat as

SHING!

warped space shot at

regained focus, but it was already too

BANG!

exploded, a burned black hole now visible

the peacock's brain,

alive, but the powerful attack on its head

another one of

but compared to Needle, this one had far

creating a small ball of heat and then infusing it

heavy bullet made

bullet would burn through an opponent's defenses

this new

hit by Missile, Shang used Void Break again to refill

he lifted

it couldn't take

above the

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

peacock's head exploded

Shang's slower attacks, but its destructive power

peacock's natural defenses weren't very

the

returned, and the body

can use Entropy in my inner world without fear of being

Initial Beast Lord," the

that moment, Shang remembered what

was a

a far below-average

peacock definitely hadn't been