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.

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

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

being able to

side,

appeared,

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

but it

several shadows and came closer to the

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

Trash Bird back then. I would probably be

he basically danced through the shadows the Pest

Adepts' spells, evading the Pest

meters away from the Pest Queen, it suddenly turned black and

Escape, the very reason why Pest Queens are so hard to

at Shang, and the

was like it had never been

closed his eyes and concentrated on the Darkness Mana in

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

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

general direction of

obviously a beast with a Darkness Affinity, and

rapidly fleeing

the Pest Queen but kept

Queen changed its direction,

seconds later, it changed

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

a pool, the Pest

up a boatload of Mana, and over half its shadows had

shot at Shang at

like the Pest Queen had shot at Shang with a

why Shang had kept some distance between him and the Pest

away and barely evaded

the procedure, I would have been hit by

charged forward again, and the Pest Cat unleashed

time, there

managed to avoid them

With that hit, I would

Queen screeched loudly again, and it unleashed all

barely avoided this

this attack would have