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!

of Blaze were exploding while Shang

and its

WHOOOOOM!

that Shang could use Void Break

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

Shang even summoned Entropy Ore to allow his Addum to

fight was essentially already

peacock was only launching pitiful attacks, and it was using far more Mana than

out

lose focus, meaning it forgot what it

his chance and readied

surroundings with its incredible

SHING!

space shot

peacock's eyes regained focus, but it was already

BANG!

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

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

peacock was still alive, but the powerful attack on

one of Shang's

but compared to Needle,

small ball of heat and then infusing it

made a non-explosive and heavy bullet made of extremely hot

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

called this new attack

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

lifted

absentminded, and it couldn't take note of

above the

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

head exploded

of Shang's slower attacks,

natural defenses weren't

the ground, and Shang

applause returned, and the

use Entropy in my inner world without fear of being

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moment, Shang remembered what he had

a weak

was a far below-average

definitely hadn't