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

they weren't as fast as

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

the side, barely evading the

the second shadow appeared, and Shang

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

was a short time for a normal human, but it wasn't

shadows and came

procedure, my body wouldn't be fast enough to evade its attacks that easily. I would need to fight from a safe distance and exhaust the Pest Queen of

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

his newfound power, he basically danced

comparison to evading all the Adepts' spells, evading the Pest Queen's ability

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

That's its Shadow Escape, the very reason why Pest Queens are so hard to

more shadows shot at Shang, and the Pest Queen fully

was like it

concentrated on the Darkness Mana in

wasn't much Darkness Mana inside it. If Shang had still been at the Soldier Stage, he wouldn't have been able to see

warrior, Shang could somewhat perceive

general

obviously a beast with

it was rapidly

the Pest Queen but kept

seconds, the Pest Queen changed its

seconds later, it changed

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

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

Escape used up a boatload of Mana,

shot

had shot

kept some distance

away and barely

procedure, I would have been hit by at least

and the

there were

to avoid

that hit, I would have

again, and it unleashed all

avoided this

think this attack would have heavily injured