Laz was barely in the upper realm of godhood while the shadow dragon was standing at the line to being an ancient god. Despite that, when they clashed, neither came out ahead as the resulting wave of force blasted out, sending the weaker beings around them flying.
Fist to fist.
Palm to palm.
Their clash wasn't any sort of mastery of martial arts battle, even though Laz had extensive training in that degree. Instead, it was a fight of pure strength, one that was meant to dominate the other party and cause fear for the other side.
Or that was the goal of the shadow dragon. As for Laz, he wanted to show this beast that it's power was nothing special and that it wasn't as strong as it thought it was. As for taking it down, had Laz met it's attacks with any of his training, the beast would have already been on the ground.
