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!

space, individual pockets of Blaze were

peacock had just retreated again, and its last attack had

WHOOOOOM!

meant that Shang could

Break two more times

Shang even summoned Entropy Ore to allow his Addum

fight was essentially already

was only launching pitiful attacks, and it was using far more

would run out

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

chance and readied

with its incredible heat

SHING!

streak of warped space shot

peacock's eyes regained focus, but it was already

BANG!

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

peacock's brain,

powerful attack on its head destroyed

was another one of Shang's new

to Needle, this

attack by creating a small ball of

heavy bullet made of

small bullet would burn through an opponent's defenses

called this new attack

used Void Break again to refill his Addum with

he lifted his

it couldn't take note

above the peacock

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

peacock's head exploded

slower attacks, but its

peacock's natural defenses weren't very

fell to the ground, and Shang

applause returned, and the body

with a sigh. 'Fortunately, I can use Entropy in my inner world without fear of being found out. Without it, I probably wouldn't have

Initial Beast Lord," the voice

Shang remembered what he had

That was a

a far below-average Beast

peacock definitely hadn't