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.

Darkness Mana, and when hit by it, the target will lose a lot

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

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

the side, barely evading the

appeared, and

shadows in rapid succession. It could either release several at

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

and came

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

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

he basically danced through

the Adepts' spells, evading the Pest Queen's

away from the Pest Queen, it suddenly turned black and seemingly melted into the

That's its Shadow Escape, the very reason why

shadows shot at Shang, and the Pest Queen

it had never been

closed his eyes and concentrated on the

it. If Shang had still been at the Soldier Stage, he wouldn't have

now, as a General Stage warrior, Shang could somewhat perceive his

general direction of the Pest

with a Darkness Affinity, and

now, it was rapidly fleeing into the

the Pest Queen but kept

seconds, the Pest Queen changed its direction, but Shang

seconds later, it changed directions

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

from a pool, the Pest Queen

a boatload of Mana, and over half its

shot at

was like the Pest Queen had

why Shang had kept some distance between him and the Pest

away and

the procedure, I would have

and the Pest Cat unleashed

time, there

to avoid

I would have probably used up nearly all

and it unleashed all its remaining Shadows, which were

barely avoided

think this attack would have heavily