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.

shadow is filled with Darkness Mana, and when hit by it, the target will lose a

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

Shang had focused his entire training on being able to evade

to the side, barely evading

second shadow appeared,

shadows in rapid succession. It could either release several at once or

was a short time for a normal human, but it

and came closer to the Pest

attacks that easily. I would need to fight from a safe distance and exhaust

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

newfound power, he basically danced through the shadows

evading all the Adepts' spells, evading the Pest Queen's ability was

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

Escape, the very reason why Pest Queens

more shadows shot at Shang, and the Pest

like it had

concentrated on the Darkness Mana

world was bright, and there wasn't much Darkness Mana inside it. If Shang had still been at the Soldier Stage, he wouldn't have been able to

Stage warrior, Shang could somewhat perceive his surroundings, even during

the general direction of

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

rapidly fleeing into the

Pest Queen but kept around thirty

seconds, the Pest Queen changed its direction, but

seconds later, it changed

Shang kept following it.

Splash!

it was emerging from a pool, the Pest Queen

Mana, and over half its

shadows shot at Shang at

the Pest Queen had shot at

had kept some distance between

quickly jumped away and barely evaded the

procedure, I would have

again, and the Pest Cat

time, there were

managed to

I would have probably used up nearly all my

screeched loudly again, and it unleashed

avoided this

this attack would have heavily injured