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.

hit by it, the target will lose a lot of

they weren't as fast as the Spells all the

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

to the side, barely evading the

appeared, and Shang evaded

unleash all its shadows in rapid succession.

for a normal human, but it wasn't

evaded several shadows and came closer to

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

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

newfound power, he basically danced through the

evading all the Adepts' spells, evading

the Pest Queen, it suddenly turned black and

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

more shadows shot at Shang, and the Pest Queen fully

like it

his eyes and concentrated on the Darkness Mana in the

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

Shang could somewhat perceive his surroundings, even during the

feel the general direction of the

obviously a beast with a Darkness Affinity, and Shang could

was rapidly fleeing into

the Pest Queen but kept

Queen changed

it changed directions

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

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

Escape used up a boatload of Mana, and over half its

shot at Shang

Queen had

kept some distance between him and the Pest

away and barely evaded

the procedure, I would have been hit

forward again, and the Pest Cat

time, there

to avoid

would have been hit again. With that hit, I would have probably used

again, and it unleashed all its remaining Shadows, which were

barely avoided

would have heavily injured