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.

Darkness Mana, and when hit by it, the target will lose

as fast as the Spells

entire training on being able to evade devastating attacks, and he

the side,

second shadow appeared, and Shang

Mages, the Pest Queen couldn't unleash all its shadows in rapid succession.

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

several shadows and came

easily. I would need to fight from a safe distance and exhaust the Pest Queen of

I would probably

power, he basically danced through the shadows the Pest

Adepts' spells, evading the Pest Queen's

was only ten meters away from the Pest Queen, it suddenly

very reason why Pest Queens are so

Shang, and the Pest Queen

was like it had

and concentrated on the Darkness

and there wasn't much Darkness Mana inside it. If Shang had still been at the Soldier Stage, he wouldn't

as a General Stage warrior, Shang could somewhat perceive his

could feel the general direction

a beast with a Darkness Affinity, and Shang could

was rapidly

Pest Queen but kept around thirty meters

Queen changed its direction, but Shang kept following

it

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

it was emerging from a pool, the

Mana, and over

ten shadows shot at Shang at

like the Pest Queen had

was exactly why Shang had kept some distance between him

quickly jumped away and

have been hit by at

and the Pest Cat

time, there

to avoid them

I would have probably used up

Queen screeched loudly again, and it unleashed all its remaining

barely avoided

think this attack would have