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

weren't as fast as the Spells

able to evade devastating

swayed to the side, barely evading the

the second shadow appeared,

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

time for a normal human, but

evaded several shadows and came

body wouldn't be fast enough to evade its attacks that easily. I would need to fight from a safe distance and exhaust the Pest Queen of

be about as hard as fighting the Trash Bird back then. I would probably be able to win,

he basically danced through the shadows the Pest Queen shot at

comparison to evading all the Adepts' spells,

away from the Pest Queen,

Escape, the very reason

at Shang, and the Pest Queen fully

it had

closed his eyes and concentrated on the Darkness Mana in

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

Shang could somewhat

feel the general direction of the

Pest Queen was obviously a beast with a Darkness Affinity, and Shang could

it was rapidly fleeing into the

Queen but kept

seconds, the Pest Queen changed its direction, but Shang kept

seconds later, it changed directions

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

emerging from a pool, the Pest

of Mana, and over half its shadows

ten shadows shot

was like the Pest Queen had shot at Shang with a

why Shang had kept some distance

and barely evaded the

I would have been hit by at least

forward again, and the

there were

managed to avoid them

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

again, and it unleashed all

barely avoided this

would have