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.

when hit by it, the

they weren't as fast as the Spells all

last month, Shang had focused his entire training on being able to evade devastating attacks, and he had

the side,

shadow appeared, and

shadows in rapid succession. It could either release several at

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

several shadows and came closer to

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

back then. I would probably

newfound power, he basically danced through

comparison to evading all the Adepts' spells,

away from the Pest Queen, it suddenly turned black and

its Shadow Escape, the very reason why Pest Queens are so hard

at Shang, and the Pest Queen fully

was like it had never been

closed his eyes and concentrated on the Darkness

much Darkness Mana inside it. If Shang had still been at the Soldier Stage, he wouldn't have been able to see his surroundings with

now, as a General Stage warrior, Shang could somewhat perceive his surroundings, even

feel the general direction of

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

was rapidly fleeing

Pest Queen but kept around thirty meters between

changed its direction, but Shang kept

it changed directions

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

it was emerging from a pool, the

of Mana, and over half its shadows had

shot at Shang

the Pest Queen had shot at Shang

was exactly why Shang had kept some distance between him and the Pest

and barely evaded

procedure, I would have been

and the

time, there

to avoid them

hit again. With that hit, I would have probably used up nearly

loudly again, and it unleashed all its remaining Shadows, which were

avoided

attack would have