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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!

a vast space, individual pockets of Blaze were exploding while Shang was nowhere

and its last attack had

WHOOOOOM!

meant that Shang could use

two more times to refill the Mana of

Entropy Ore to

was

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

run out

focus, meaning it forgot what it had just

saw his chance and readied

surroundings with its incredible heat as

SHING!

warped space shot at the

regained focus, but it was already too

BANG!

head exploded, a burned black hole now visible

the peacock's brain, but it didn't destroy a

the powerful attack on its head destroyed all of the peacock's

one of Shang's new

compared to Needle, this one had far more destructive

this attack by creating a small ball of heat and then

heavy

opponent's defenses

this new

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

he lifted his

it couldn't take note of

above the peacock

Shang swung down.

Meteor!

BOOOOOOOM!

head exploded into

slower attacks, but its destructive power was extremely

peacock's natural

the ground,

applause returned, and the body

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

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remembered what

That was a weak

a far

peacock definitely hadn't been