Sword God in a World of Magic

The wheel slowed down and eventually stopped on Shang's next opponent.

It was a Pest Cat, but it had several things that didn't fit the image of a normal Pest Cat.

First of all, it had long eyelashes, which showed that it was very feminine.

It also had a big belly, which reminded Shang of a pregnant woman.

Lastly, it wore a dainty crown.

Shang quickly realized what beast this picture symbolized.

He hadn't seen one yet, but these beasts were worth a ton of money.

It was Pest Queen.

Pest Queens were the main source of the Pest Cat problem.

When a Pest Cat reached the General Stage, it had a chance of evolving into a Pest Queen.

A Pest Queen would abandon its agility in exchange for ranged abilities and vastly increased fertility.

Pest Cats only had six children per pregnancy in general.

Pest Queens, on the other hand, could store sperm from male Pest Cats like ant queens, and they could endlessly birth Pest Cats as long as they had enough food.

Its children would catch all the food for it while having children of their own from time to time.

One Pest Queen could produce as many children as 30 Pest Cats!

'Luckily, they are not great in direct combat. Their danger comes from their fertility and their army of Pest Cats,' Shang thought.

'But that was to be expected. After all, I am supposed to fight a weak Early General Stage beast.'

After a short moment, the Pest Queen appeared in the distance.

It looked similar to a Pest Cat, but it had a gigantic belly, and dark shadows swirled around its body.

The jester lifted its hammer again and struck the bell.

The Pest Queen noticed Shang and screeched a warning while slowly walking backward.

Shang readied his sword and exploded forward.

When Shang was only 50 meters away, the shadows around the Pest Queen's body began to shoot at Shang like living missiles.

is filled with Darkness Mana, and when hit by it, the target will lose a lot

shadows were quite fast, but they weren't as fast as the Spells all the Adepts had unleashed

the last month, Shang had focused his entire training on being able

the side, barely

shadow appeared, and Shang evaded

rapid succession. It could either release several at once or one every half

for a normal human, but it wasn't as short for a General Stage

evaded several shadows and came closer to the

wouldn't be fast enough to evade its attacks that easily. I would need to

Bird back then. I

Shang evaluated his newfound power, he basically danced through the shadows the

comparison to evading all the Adepts' spells, evading the Pest Queen's ability was

meters away from the Pest Queen, it suddenly turned black and seemingly melted

very reason why Pest Queens are so hard to

Shang, and the Pest Queen fully

it

eyes and concentrated on

had still been at the Soldier Stage, he wouldn't have been able to see

Shang could somewhat perceive his

general direction

Queen was obviously a beast with a Darkness Affinity, and Shang could

rapidly fleeing

Queen but kept around thirty meters

seconds, the Pest Queen changed its direction, but

later, it changed

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

from a pool, the

Mana, and over

ten shadows shot at Shang

had shot

exactly why Shang had kept some distance between him and

jumped away and

have been hit by at

charged forward again, and the Pest Cat unleashed more

there were

to

I would have probably

Queen screeched loudly again, and it

barely avoided

would have