Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

On the third floor...

"Well, this could be troublesome". Muku said while looking at the 50+ unranked killer dogs on the floor. They were so many they couldn't fit on the passageway, some were poking thier heads out of the classrooms.

They alone weren't the problem, just him alone could easily deal with them. The real problem was the two meter killer dog that was standing in front of the other dogs. 'Lower stage Rank One' are the words that suddenly came to his mind when he looked at it. Just like when he suddenly knew what a mana core was, it was the same. He suspected that the being behind the scenes had somehow made it that they can automatically recognize some things. As to back his claim, even the girls knew what it was.

The beast was still pitch black like the others. The difference though, other than body size, ranged from black spikes poking out of its back. Crimson eyes excluding intelligence. A body that radiated mana unlike the others. Longer canine teeth and claws.

"You guys take the underlings and I'll take at the big g...Oh shit!!"

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

While Muku while still giving orders to the girls. The Rank One killer dog seemed to run out of patience. And it did something nobody expected. It swiped it's claws in the air and its claws were actually detached from its body and flew toward Muku's group. If Muku didn't hurriedly party then with his axe, he and Emily standing beside him would have been given a few extra holes on their bodies. Even more astonishing was how new claws quickly grew in the place of the ones thrown at them.

"Well damn!, who would have thought, well at least from this I now know to expecting anything from these monsters. Girls, attack!" Muku said while sprinting toward the beast. His body carried forward and made lighter by his telekinesis.

Pwak!

Within seconds he was in front of the beast and his axe falling down on its huge head. But to his suprise, his axe broke without being able to cut the dog.

He quickly stepped back in surprise. That's when he noticed a look of disdain in the dog's eyes. It seemed it already knew his attack wouldn't do it any harm. No wonder it didn't even react.

"Damn, even a beast is giving me a disdainful look now?. Well I'll show you, here I was thinking I could minimise my mana expenditure by using the axe instead of creating swords.". With that said, a silver longsword appeared in Muku's hand as he ran to attack the beast once again. Though this time it didn't passively accept his attack.

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On the girls' side.....

Woosh! × 3

As soon as Muku said attack. Three ice spikes quickly flew toward three dogs that were running toward them. It seemed the Rank One dog had ordered the dogs to attack the girls while it dealt with Muku. Has to be the case since they were ignoring him who was fighting the leader while running at the girls.

But Layla seemed to have been prepared as she quickly took care of the three leading dogs. For some reason though, these dogs weren't cowering like before when they sensed their higher rank. Likely has something to do with the leader since even their eyes were glowing, unlike their dullness before. They seemed to have gone berserk.

Beside her, Jade turned cat girl again. She threw her axe on the ground, ran forward before turning into a blur to the other girls. She was so agile and quick she could even run on the wall for a bit. All that that was left wherever she passed were dead dogs with five puncture wounds on their skulls, clearly from her claws. Her faint giggling could be heard as she revelled in a massacre, creeping out the others a bit.

"Sigh, what a vulgar fighting style". Layla said while killing off the dogs Jade missed. The other two girls nodded in agreement.

"And you two, why aren't you helping?" Layla asked Emily and Chloe who were just looking on like the situation had nothing to do with them.

"Well, my element is fire so...unless you want me to burn this who place down by mistake I think it would be best I hold off from fighting indoors for now. Maybe when I get used to it a bit more. Besides, you and Jade are enough to take care of the situation". Emily said with a slight pout, ask not liking being useless, but she knew what had to be done.

"M-mine is lightning, with Jade jumping around the place like that, I might hit her. As for the ones she's leaving, you seem to have got it covered. But if you want us to switch places I'm okay with it". Chloe also gave her reason.

"Oh, makes sense, both of you just stand back then, I'll take care of this. You'll have many chances in the future after all. Plus I guess it really would be overkill for all of us to act. If Jade wasn't so careless, she likely would have been enough to take care of all of them". Layla agreed with them after giving it a bit of thought.

And so, the one-sided massacre continued.

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Back on Muku's side...

Clang!

As his newly created sword was about to slash at the dog's had. It raised its leg and slapped the sword away with it's hard claws. Muku was forced back a few steps.

{Well, so this thing can not only see me clearly at high speeds, it can even react. That sucks, I kinda thought my speed was something special, only for this seemingly strength type beast to be able to block it} Muku thought while trying to come up with a different strategy. Till now he didn't need to think of anything complicated when fighting because his opponents could barely react even before he was Rank One.

"Hmm, so that's Layla's base spell huh, kinda gives me an idea". Muku said to himself, he had glanced behind him and noticed the rampaging Jade who he promptly ignored. But also noticed Layla killing off the dogs with ice rods she was conjuring up in the air.

Woosh! Woosh!

With that statement, he creates two more swords, his limit was only three at the time. Made them shoot forward aiming at the leader killer dog's giant had.

"Lets see if you can deflect two at the same time". He said while standing still.

The dog's eyes narrowed but soon a look of disdain appeared in its eyes again. It did something unexpected, stood up in its two hind legs and slapped the swords away. But before it could get down on all fours again, it sensed danger.

Before it could react, Muku appeared just below it, his sword stabbing dip into its throat and coming out through the other side. It seemed the dog's mana and skin that could easily shrug off the axe, couldn't resist a weapon created from the mana of a same level being. Before the blood could spurt out and cover him all over, Muku had already stepped back.

His chest was heaving up and down as he had pushed his telekinesis to the limit to increase his speed. This had taken quite a bit of energy from him.

The dog fell to the ground, chocked on its own blood for a bit before dying, it's eyes full of disbelief. Which made sense really, like how of a human was killed by a chicken, of course they would show surprise in their face as their died.

[99 kills left before Rank up!]

Muku stepped back to the girls' side, his face scrunched down a bit after hearing the message. To get to Rank Two he had to kill 99 more Rank One beings after all. The previous 10 was nothing worth mentioning in front of the new requirements, and he almost died to get those ten too.

As soon as their leader died, the remaining seven dogs got out of their berserk state and quickly turned around to flee.

"Oh no you don't, and now without him in the way I can finally let loose". Seeing the dogs start running away, Jade spoke before disappearing, her speed a lot faster than the one before. She had reached and surpassed the speed Muku used to kill the leader dog. Less than five seconds later Jade appeared again. The dogs were all dead, and unlike the ones who dies before them, their heads were sliced off.

"Gulp, seems she wasn't kidding when she said her base form was an agility type". Emily said with a nervous expression. She just realised that she'd probably be unable to react if Jade tried to kill her. Of course such a day definitely never come, but she couldn't help but think of it.

"Phew, that took a lot out of me, but it was fun as hell though". Jade said, her modest chest heaving. Seems the speed took a lot out of her.

"Good that you had fun, now would you mind looking down at your uniform?". Muku said while looking at her with a smile.

"Huh, what do you...oh". Jade was first confused, but when she looked down she understood. Her originally blue school uniform was now more red than blue in the front area. Even her face had some blood on it. With her smile, she kind looked like someone who fell out of a horror movie. Especially with her claws that were still dripping blood.

"You're sleeping outside today". Muku said with a deadpan expression, while the girls at his side subtly nodded.