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 will lose a lot of

fast as the Spells all the Adepts had unleashed

focused his entire training on being able to evade devastating attacks, and he had become very good at

swayed to the side,

second shadow appeared, and Shang

Pest Queen couldn't unleash all its shadows in rapid succession. It could either release several at once or one every half

a normal human, but it wasn't

shadows and came closer to the

easily. I would need to fight from a safe

be about as hard as 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

evading all the Adepts' spells,

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

it is. That's its Shadow Escape, the very reason why Pest Queens

Shang, and

it had never

concentrated on the Darkness Mana in the

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

Shang could somewhat perceive his surroundings, even during

general direction of the

was obviously a beast with a Darkness Affinity,

now, it was rapidly

but kept around thirty meters between

Pest Queen changed its direction, but

later, it changed

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

emerging from a pool, the Pest

Escape used up a boatload of Mana,

shadows shot

the Pest Queen had

some

jumped away and

would have

again, and the Pest Cat unleashed

there were

managed to avoid them

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

and it unleashed all its remaining Shadows, which were

avoided this

attack would