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.

and when hit by it, the target will lose a

but they weren't as fast as the Spells all the Adepts

focused his entire training on being able to evade devastating attacks, and

the side, barely evading the

shadow appeared, and Shang evaded

all its shadows in rapid succession. It could either release

normal human, but it wasn't

shadows and came closer to the Pest

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

as hard as fighting the Trash Bird back then. I would probably

basically danced through the shadows the Pest Queen shot at

to evading all the Adepts' spells, evading the

the Pest Queen, it suddenly turned

Escape, the very reason why Pest Queens

more shadows shot at Shang,

like it

eyes and concentrated on the Darkness Mana in the

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

could somewhat perceive his surroundings,

general direction of the Pest

with a

rapidly fleeing into

Pest Queen but kept

seconds, the Pest Queen changed

it changed

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

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

a boatload of Mana, and over half its shadows

ten shadows shot at Shang at

Pest Queen had shot at Shang

exactly why Shang had kept some distance between him and the Pest

away and barely evaded

have

the

time, there

managed to avoid them

would have been hit again. With that hit, I would have probably used up nearly all my

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

barely avoided

would