Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

The next morning....

Going the opposite direction of the monster. Muku's group walked toward the shop Hope was guiding them to. Her eyes were a bit red since she had cried away most of the night. But as a Rank One she didn't that much sleep so other than her eyes looking a bit wrong, she was mostly fine... physically.

It took them quite a few hours to reach the shop, this was because they kept on meeting a few Low Rank Ones every now and then. Muku's kill target dropped to 90, Jade to 92, Layla to 93, Emily 92, Chloe 93 and Hope 95.

(LR1 = Low Rank One. MR1= Mid Rank One. PR1= Peak Rank One)

They noticed a weird trend, they'd either meet a LR1 or few unranked ones. But never a MR1 or higher. Infact there were more LR1s than unranked ones. This made Layla come up with a hypnosis. That the closer they were to the edge, the higher the chance of meeting a weaker beast and the closer they got to the centre, the higher the chance of meeting a stronger beast. Although her hypothesis was mostly true, it didn't account for anomalies like the giant python they still didn't know about which was closer to the edge of the city.

"So that's the store huh....did it always have three LR1s as guards?" Muku jokingly asked as the looked at the three large lizards laying in front of the shop.

"N-no, I'm sorry for the terrible suggestion" Hope meekly spoke.

"You got a thing for blaming yourself for every little thing that goes wrong don't you?". Jade said while playfully poking Hope's nose.

"N-no". Still meek, Hope replied.

"Jade is right, you really need to stop that habit of yours. We're comrades and friends aren't we?. You should treat us as such". Chloe supported.

"And it's clear to see that you weren't the first one to think to come here, because of which these three beasts thought to camp on the spot waiting for their food to deliver itself. Layla added.

"So who wants them?, they are coming toward us after all". Muku suddenly said, making the girls refocus on the lizards. Their scent must have been carried over to the lizards by the wind since they were still hidden behind a building a bit of a distance away from the shop.

"I'll go, maybe I can finally get another core...wait I haven't seen these lizards use any special attack, neither have the snakes now that I think about it. And I don't want to spit out spider webs from my mouth so it's a hard pass on the spider ability.". Jade replied before she was lost in her own thoughts and start blabbering random things.

"Are you going or not!?. We don't have all day after all". Muku loudly asked her, rousing her from her thoughts.

"I'll go, I'll go, sheesh, there was no need to shout". Jade grumbled as she "high quicked" away leaving Muku rolling his eyes at how dramatic and difficult she was.

"Hope and Chloe you go too. Hope I hope you can manage to kill one yourself this time otherwise you'll always be behind the others by a bit of you play support all the time. Try concentrating your poison and we'll see what happens.". Muku gave out orders. He specifically mentioned Hope because he noticed that she was getting used to playing support, which was good and all but she at least needed to take care of same stage beasts on her own.

"Y-yes sir". Hope replied as she unwillingly stepped forward. Just as Muku thought, she liked playing support a bit too much so wasn't even willing to be a frontliner.

"Don't worry, it's easy, just do as I do and you'll be fine". Chloe encouraged her as she gathered her lightning in-between her hands.

Pzzzt! Bang!

The same attack from before flew out, this time it was more controlled and so wouldn't be as loud. The lizards were quite fast for such huge creatures but, they weren't faster than lightning it seemed. The lizard going toward Jade's battle with another lizard was quickly killed off.

[91 kills left...]. (Chloe)

"Wow, so cool" Hope said, looking at Chloe with sparkling eyes filled with admiration.

"I wish, but I can only do it one more time before I have to recover for around 4 hours". Chloe wasn't as impressed by her attack she could only use twice before she was down for the count.

"Even then, it's still....". Hope was still very impressed by Chloe and wanted to express it when she was interrupted.

"Hope!". Muku shouted bringing the little girl back to reality.

That's when she noticed that her lizard was only about five metres away. Which made her panic and almost run away. But she managed to stop herself and prepare her attack. She started gathering the green mist in-between her hands in the form of a little ball. She kept on doing it until she couldn't do it anymore. Of course she only got such a chance because Muku was holding the beast back with his telekinesis.

She was so concentrated that she started sweating a bit. Her purple hair sticking to her face a bit.

"Haaa!". She screamed as she tossed a golf-ball sized little green ball of mist at the beast. Oddly when it came into contact with the beast, it didn't explode out like everyone thought it would. It entered the beast's body through its nostril and then nothing...

Well that was the case for three seconds the green blood started coming out of the beast's eyes, noise and mouth before it slumped to the ground and died on the spot, blood still gushing out. Everyone was kind creeped out by such a death but at the same time saw the lethality of Hope's poison. Too bad no one had been hurt so far so they couldn't really test out her healing magic.

[93 kills left...]

Hope got the familiar message with the numbness. She ignored both as she was just happy to kill a Rank One on her own...well mostly on her own.

On Jade's side, she was still fighting her beast, grumpily as she had seen Chloe one shot hers. Her mood got worse when Hope did the same.

"Grr!". It was actually Jade who made such an animalistic sound as she grit her teeth in jealousy.

"Is that how you all want to play it huh, okay, I'll show you all!" She screamed out as her speed increased and her claws got longer and started glowing with green energy and all ten were sent at the lizard's large head. They poked it all over but because of its hard flesh, they didn't get too deep. But a surprising thing happened, all ten claws exploded at once. They were either on the beast's neck or head area and were complimenting each other's explosion. And so like that, the lizard's head, although wasn't blown off, it was stripped of its scales and skin. The injuries on its face saviour enough to kill it, which they did.

[90 kills left....]

"Huff...See, I told you that I'll show you. You all thought I couldn't kill a beast without getting closer, well there you go". Jade said as she huffed for breathe. It seemed the new attack took quite a bit out of her, she was primarily a physical type after all.

"Yes we did, now lets quickly get some food before this place is over run.". Muku replied to her as he and the rest of the gang speedily went toward the shop. Although their battles this time weren't too loud, who knew what was close enough to hear it after all.

As they went to the shop, Muku and Jade subtly looked in a certain direction before looking at each other and continuing forward.

....

"Sir, those people actually managed to slay the beasts. And they managed it all in a one on one battle". A man said while looking at Muku's group from the top of a building a 3 kilometres. His eyes looked like those of a hawk.

"What!?, such people already exist?. I wonder if we should go meet them or not". The hawk-eyed man's boss spoke from beside him. His eyes weren't good enough to properly see from such a distance so only the hawk-eyed man could spy on Muku's group.

Actually they had arrived before Muku's group the previous day but when they noticed the lizards camping there, they could only wait and see if they would leave. The city wasn't safe enough to casually walk around anymore after all. And the shops of the area were all at the place the lizards where.

"Well there's one young man and 5 little girls, so they shouldn't be some bad people.". The hawk-eyed man spoke.

"Interesting...but lets study them a bit longer then decide...."