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.

with Darkness Mana, and when hit by

fast as the Spells all the Adepts had unleashed

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

to the side, barely evading the

shadow appeared, and

Pest Queen couldn't unleash all its shadows in rapid succession. It could either release several at once or

time for a normal human, but

several shadows and came closer to the Pest

easily. I would need

then. I would probably be able to win, but the fight would still

he basically danced through the shadows the Pest Queen shot at

evading all the Adepts' spells,

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

Escape, the very reason why Pest Queens

at Shang, and the Pest Queen

it had never

eyes and concentrated on the

Mana inside it. If Shang had still been at the Soldier Stage, he wouldn't have

as a General Stage warrior, Shang could

could feel the general direction of the Pest

obviously a beast with a Darkness Affinity,

now, it was rapidly fleeing

followed the Pest Queen but kept around

seconds, the Pest Queen changed its direction, but

it

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

like it was emerging from a pool, the Pest

boatload of Mana, and

shot

Pest Queen had

some distance

and barely evaded

the procedure, I would have been hit by at

the Pest Cat unleashed more

time, there

managed to avoid

been hit again. With that hit, I

Queen screeched loudly again, and it unleashed all its remaining

avoided this

would have heavily injured