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.

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

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

last month, Shang had focused his entire training on being able to evade devastating attacks, and he

the side, barely

the second shadow appeared, and Shang

all its shadows in rapid

but it wasn't as short

evaded several shadows and came closer to

be fast enough to evade its attacks that easily. I would need to fight from a safe distance

fighting the Trash Bird back then. I would probably be able to win, but the fight would

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

spells, evading the

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

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

shadows shot at Shang, and the Pest Queen fully

it

and concentrated on

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

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

general direction of

obviously a beast with a

rapidly fleeing into the

followed the Pest Queen but kept around thirty meters between

the Pest Queen changed its direction,

later, it changed directions

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

was emerging from a pool, the Pest

boatload of Mana, and over

shadows shot at Shang at

was like the Pest Queen had shot

kept some

and

the procedure, I would have been hit by at

the Pest Cat unleashed

there

to

have been hit again. With that hit, I

Pest Queen screeched loudly again, and it

avoided this

think this attack would have heavily injured