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, the target

fast, but they weren't as fast as the Spells all the Adepts had unleashed on

the last month, Shang had focused his entire training on being able

swayed to the side, barely

second shadow appeared, and

unleash all its shadows in rapid succession. It could either release several at

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

shadows and came closer to the Pest

fast enough to evade its attacks that easily. I would need to fight from a safe distance and exhaust the Pest Queen of

then. I would probably be able to win, but the

power, he basically danced through the shadows the Pest Queen shot

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

the Pest Queen, it suddenly turned black and seemingly

its Shadow Escape, the very reason why Pest

Shang, and the Pest Queen

like it had never

concentrated on the Darkness Mana

Darkness Mana inside it. If Shang had still been at the Soldier

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

the general direction of the

a beast with a Darkness Affinity, and

now, it was rapidly fleeing into

the Pest Queen but kept around thirty meters

seconds, the Pest Queen changed its direction,

it changed directions

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

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

of Mana,

shot

Queen had shot at Shang

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

jumped away and barely

I would have been hit by at least

the Pest

time, there were

to avoid them

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

it unleashed

avoided this

think this attack would have heavily