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.

hit by it, the

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

being able to evade devastating attacks, and he had become very good at

swayed to the side, barely evading

the second shadow appeared, and Shang evaded it

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

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

came closer

attacks that easily. I

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

evaluated his newfound power, he basically danced through the shadows the Pest Queen shot

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

the Pest Queen, it suddenly turned

very reason why Pest Queens

Shang,

like it

concentrated on

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

Stage warrior, Shang could somewhat perceive his surroundings, even

feel the general direction of the

obviously a beast with a Darkness Affinity, and Shang could

rapidly

but kept around thirty meters

some seconds, the Pest Queen changed its direction, but

seconds later, it

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

pool, the

of Mana, and over half its shadows

shadows shot at

like the Pest Queen had shot

some distance

away and

I would have been hit

forward again, and the Pest Cat unleashed more

there were

to avoid

I would have probably used

again, and it unleashed all

avoided

this attack would have heavily