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.

when hit by it, the target will lose a lot of life

fast as the Spells all the Adepts

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

the side, barely

the second shadow appeared,

rapid succession. It could either release several

a normal human, but it wasn't as

evaded several shadows and came closer to

that easily. I would need to fight from a safe distance and exhaust

be about as hard as fighting the Trash Bird back then. I would probably be able to win, but the fight would

basically danced

all the Adepts' spells, evading the

Queen, it suddenly turned black and seemingly melted

is. That's its Shadow Escape, the very reason why Pest Queens

more shadows shot at Shang, and the Pest Queen

was like it

eyes and concentrated on the Darkness Mana in the

wasn't much Darkness Mana inside it. If Shang had still been at the Soldier

Shang could somewhat perceive his surroundings, even during the

the general direction

Pest Queen was obviously a beast with a Darkness Affinity, and

was rapidly

followed the Pest Queen but kept around thirty meters between

some seconds, the Pest Queen changed its direction, but Shang kept following

it

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

pool, the Pest Queen reappeared, and it

Escape used up a boatload of Mana,

ten shadows shot at Shang

the Pest Queen had

kept some distance

quickly jumped away and barely

would have been

again, and the Pest

there

managed to avoid

hit, I would have probably used up nearly all

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

barely avoided

this attack would have heavily injured