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,

fast as the Spells all the Adepts

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

the side, barely evading

shadow appeared,

unleash all its shadows in rapid succession.

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

evaded several shadows and came

that easily. I would need

I would probably be able to win, but the

power, he basically danced

spells, evading the Pest Queen's

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

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

shot at Shang, and

was like it had

closed his eyes and concentrated on the Darkness

still been at the Soldier Stage, he wouldn't have been able to see his

could somewhat perceive his surroundings, even

could feel the general direction of the

Queen was obviously a beast with

now, it was rapidly fleeing into the

Pest Queen but kept around

Pest Queen changed its direction, but

it changed directions

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

a pool, the Pest Queen reappeared, and

used up a boatload of Mana, and

shot at Shang at

like the Pest Queen had shot at Shang

Shang had kept some distance between him

and

procedure, I would have

and the

there were

managed to avoid them

I would have probably

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

barely avoided

would have heavily