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.

Mana, and when hit by

but they weren't as fast as

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

side, barely evading

shadow appeared, and

to Mages, the Pest Queen couldn't unleash all its shadows in rapid succession. It could either release several at once or one every half a

normal human, but it wasn't as

came closer to the Pest

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

the Trash Bird back then. I would probably be able to win, but the

his newfound power, he basically danced through the shadows

to evading all the Adepts' spells, evading the

Queen, it suddenly turned black and seemingly melted

very

shot at Shang,

it had

and concentrated on the Darkness

much Darkness Mana inside it. If Shang had still been at the Soldier

Stage warrior, Shang could somewhat perceive his surroundings, even

could feel the general direction

beast with a

now, it was rapidly

Queen but kept

the Pest Queen changed

seconds later, it changed directions

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

emerging from a pool, the Pest Queen reappeared, and it

boatload of Mana, and over half its

shadows shot at

like the Pest Queen had

had kept some distance between

and barely evaded the

the procedure, I would have

and the Pest Cat unleashed more

there were

to avoid them

With that hit, I would have probably used up nearly all my

screeched loudly again, and it unleashed all its remaining Shadows,

barely avoided

this attack would