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

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

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

the side, barely evading

the second shadow appeared, and Shang evaded it

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

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

and came closer to

evade its attacks that easily. I would need to fight from a safe distance and exhaust the Pest Queen

about as hard as fighting the Trash Bird back then. I would

basically danced through the shadows the Pest Queen shot at

the Adepts' spells, evading the Pest Queen's ability was

away from the Pest Queen,

Shadow Escape, the very reason why Pest Queens are

more shadows shot at Shang, and the Pest

like it had

closed his eyes and concentrated on the Darkness Mana in the

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

Shang could somewhat perceive his

could feel the general direction of the

obviously a beast with a Darkness Affinity, and

rapidly fleeing

Pest Queen but kept around thirty meters

changed its

later, it changed directions

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

the Pest Queen reappeared,

up a boatload of Mana,

ten shadows shot at Shang at

had shot at

was exactly why Shang had kept some distance

away and

would have been

forward again, and the Pest Cat unleashed more

there were

to avoid them

been hit again. With that hit, I would have probably

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

barely avoided

this attack would