[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic":3,"chapter-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-794":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Sword God in a World of Magic",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1492629,1940,"Chapter 794  794 – Missile","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-794",794,"\u003Cp>Over the next couple of seconds, the peacock continued running while launching pathetic attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was still faster and more powerful than Shang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, it had severe problems with its focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, it even forgot what it had just wanted to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, this was the effect of Shang's Needle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One had to remember that Shang had constantly remained in a heavily injured state throughout the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he healed his old injuries, they were quickly replaced by new ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had been in such an injured state on purpose to refill his Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, whenever the peacock injured Shang, he received more Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After eliminating the space between him and the peacock, Shang had filled the Needle with Death Mana with the Concept of Purgatory again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Shang had used Radiation earlier, the effects of Purgatory had been spread across the opponent's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weaker muscles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Less focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not as resilient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that all the effects had been focused on the peacock's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This put the peacock's mind into an early stage of dementia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a weak and old mind in the body of a young and powerful beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock wasted a lot of its Mana in weak attacks, and Shang could even focus on actually slowly inspecting his surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, this meant that Shang couldn't absorb as much Mana as usual and that it took several times longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the end result was that Shang could tell where all the foreign and hidden Blaze was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG! BANG! BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Across a vast space, individual pockets of Blaze were exploding while Shang was nowhere near them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock had just retreated again, and its last attack had already passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that Shang could use Void Break again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Shang chased the peacock, he used Void Break two more times to refill the Mana of his swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more, Shang even summoned Entropy Ore to allow his Addum to return to its peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fight was essentially already over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock was only launching pitiful attacks, and it was using far more Mana than it was regenerating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would run out of Mana soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, Shang saw the peacock's eyes lose focus, meaning it forgot what it had just been doing again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang saw his chance and readied his Addum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's Addum warped the surroundings with its incredible heat as it swung forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SHING!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thin streak of warped space shot at the distant peacock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock's eyes regained focus, but it was already too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The front of the peacock's head exploded, a burned black hole now visible on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The burned hole reached the peacock's brain, but it didn't destroy a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock was still alive, but the powerful attack on its head destroyed all of the peacock's focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was another one of Shang's new attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a long-range precision attack, but compared to Needle, this one had far more destructive power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang launched this attack by creating a small ball of heat and then infusing it with more mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This essentially made a non-explosive and heavy bullet made of extremely hot fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The small bullet would burn through an opponent's defenses and spread its heat deep into the target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang called this new attack Missile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the peacock was hit by Missile, Shang used Void Break again to refill his Addum with Fire Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he lifted his Addum high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock was completely absentminded, and it couldn't take note of its surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space above the peacock warped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang swung down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meteor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock's head exploded into pieces!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meteor was one of Shang's slower attacks, but its destructive power was extremely great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, the peacock's natural defenses weren't very impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock's headless body fell to the ground, and Shang took a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The applause returned, and the body slowly vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Finally,' 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 have won.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Level 17: Average Initial Beast Lord,\" the voice spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Shang remembered what he had just fought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Right! That was a weak Initial Beast Lord!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That was a far below-average Beast Lord!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock definitely hadn't been a pushover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had seen through one of Shang's weaknesses in an instant and had used it against Shang by letting him freeze himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, it had even placed traps while retreating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, this was almost like fighting an intelligent human, and a quite experienced one at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was shocking to think that this was one of the weakest Beast Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's even the point of keeping score anymore?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang didn't show any reaction to the jester's words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You actually jumped a full Realm against a beast,\" the God said. \"And it was even against a Beast Lord.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wonder how far you can go,\" the jester said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang didn't say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jester looked at Shang for a while, and a small smirk appeared on its face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Interesting,\" it said. \"That's not too dumb. You know that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang didn't react.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, go ahead,\" the jester said with a chuckle as the Affinity Wheel slowed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have fun,\" it said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was readying his Addum and Subsis again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that he couldn't possibly win his next fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, that wasn't his intention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang wanted to experience something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The higher level a Concept of Death was, the closer it came to death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The level three Concept of Death, Purgatory, was already as close to death as it got without outright dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, the next one was probably just straight-up dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something like this could probably only be comprehended in a Pit of Death, but Shang didn't have access to that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had access to something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actual death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could comprehend death by dying in his trial.\u003C\u002Fp>",1042,"2026-06-06T04:07:23.285Z",1,"novelbin.me","c78ad47af05b887807fe77e41d84a625f39c08f157f6a2243e0e2b7cb6927413","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-795","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-793",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]