Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

As one might guess. As a R4, Raya could easily use an AOE spell which could cover the whole space. It was just fifty kilometres after all.

However, such attacks cost quite a lot of mana and weren't too effective on opponents with strong defence. The reason for this was simple, when energy is spread, it will obviously not be as effective as when it's compressed, especially on hard targets.

For that reason, Raya used a minor AOE attack. It covered a significant length of space and was also small enough to be really strong if it landed. Especially under the buff of her DA.

Unfortunately, the sandworm was out of range. Which made the attack useless.

Raya felt that she might have to unleash her domain if she wanted to locate the beast. Even if it won't be able to do any significant damage, it should be enough to expose the sandworm at least.

After that, she would figure out what to do next. Though she didn't have much faith in it, after all, the soil in the domain was similar to that in the outskirts of the Beast World. It was reinforced with mana. So, even the strongest of attacks she can release won't be able to dig too deep underground. If she's able to reach three kilometres like the ED was able to before, it would be counted as a win.

But that would be too far-fetched as the ED had to combine a focused attack and her domain armour to achieve that. There was also the inclusion of her domain the second time around. Which Raya couldn't do yet.

In fact, if Muku's achievements in the Force Technique weren't super high. He wouldn't have been able to do what he did, which was capturing the energy and using it against the beast.

Anyway, as Raya was debating whether to use her domain or not when the returns weren't guaranteed, she was enveloped by sand again.

And another round of dodge-the-SESs began. The damn things were as feisty as ever.

The situation made Raya wonder if what Mrs C said was true. Could she really win the fight? Sure, she liked being praised, but that was only when she could get the job done, which didn't look like it from how things were progressing.

She was basically getting owned. If her physic was stripped she might have hardened her heart and charged into the ground. After all, she was quite steady physically. In fact, she was as strong as some MR4s physically. So she believed in herself in that category.

With that said, she finally made up her mind. She couldn't be logical with an illogical beast. She was going to go crazy and unleash everything she had randomly and hoped something sticks. If it doesn't work, then she can just give up. After all, she was fighting a higher-level beast, losing was completely understandable.

There was no shame in it at all. In fact, lasting that long when one of her most important weapons(her physic) was stripped away was already good enough.

Just then...

SKKKKRRRR!

A familiar screech rang out. The sandworm has made its appearance again! Raya immediately focused on the ground below her ready to receive it. Which was instinctual since she couldn't tell where the sound was coming from.

The sand had messed with her sight and the generated wind and sound were messing with her hearing.

For that, she used logic to guess where the beast would appear from. She was ready and prepared to meet it with an attack head-on. She wanted to blow up its head or at least take out a few teeth for the trouble it has caused her.

But unfortunately... Yeah, the poor Dragon's streak of misfortune continued.

The sandworm didn't emerge from below as expected, it actually came from above.

She only realised what was happening because of the darkening of the area above her. It was already dark from the countless sharp grains of sand, but it got even worse suddenly.

Fortunately, her brain was quick enough to realise what was happening before it was too late. She immediately reacted as she tried to get out of the way.

Of course, her space element came back into play. However, the sandworm still managed to graze her body before she completely disappeared.

As someone frugal with her mana, she had cancelled her domain armour just before disappearing. After all, it costs an arm and a leg to use. So, if she could pause it briefly, she would. Who knew if that little saved energy would be the game-changer at a later point in battle?

Unfortunately, again, her nature worked against her. Just that little graze from the armoured worm was strong enough to completely destroy her weakened scales.

It left a significant wound on her body. She instantly reactivated her Domain Armour when she appeared on the other side. This stopped blood from rushing out of the wound.

But that wasn't all. She has finally reached her limit. The sandworm has done enough.

She no longer cared about having a plan. It was time to let the beast inside a beast out. It was time to go Beast Mode!

For the first time since that time, she fought against Fake Raya. Raya let herself go....

"ROOOOOOOAOR!!!"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

With a loud draconic roar which covered the whole space, Raya exploded.

Crazily enough, for the fire ever. She managed to use two of her domains at the same time. She was coincidentally floating at the centre of the pocket dimension when the two domains exploded out.

Twenty-five kilometres were submerged in pure darkness, and all the sand was destroyed. A few top layers were destroyed on the ground. The chaos was ended instantly.

On the other side, everything was bathed in pure white light... Then it was burned into nothingness.

Darkness consumed and light burned. The sandworm which was still in the air riding the sand found itself getting corroded by the darkness as that's the side it was on.

It immediately began a quick plunge to the ground after all the sand was destroyed.

However, Raya didn't let it fall peacefully, as the beast was still falling from the sky, she gathered energy in her mouth and...

ROOOOOOOOOOOAR!

An ethereal black energy beam appeared from the ground and shot towards the sandworm. She ruthlessly shot at its head. Her plan or instinct rather, was to end the fight in one blow.

BOOOOOOOM!

The attack landed dead centre. And it wasn't just a. Normal attack, no, it was an attack made out of space-rending space-element energy.

Even beasts with the strongest of defences might have to think twice before taking such an attack head-on.

Unfortunately, the sandworm didn't think. Not that it had a choice in the matter anyway.

However, it did have instincts. And those instincts made it turn away its head at the last moment. It couldn't avoid the attack, but it could preserve its life.

The black and white energy cleared up soon after and the dust from the sandworm also cleared up.

Raya who had regained control wasn't quick to move on to the next step. She didn't dare leave her beast mode on, after all, she didn't have much mana left. And using Beast Mode at such a time would be suicidal as it doesn't care about self-preservation. Ending the enemy at all costs was all that mattered to it.

This is why she didn't like it despite the good results she couldn't obtain normally. Fortunately, she managed to stop it this time. Last time it didn't stop until the opponent was a corpse. Which was what scared her off. The little dragon liked being in control of her actions. So, even when she has Muku as backup in the Beast Forest, she dared not use it.

What if she ended up attacking him too?

(A/N: The mode was like Broly's Legendary Saiyan state. Anyone and everyone in front of him was a target)

Anyway, the sandworm didn't move for a while. Which gave her the illusion that she might have done it and the beast was dead. Unfortunately, that thought didn't last too long.

The beast got up as soon as she thought it, almost like it was waiting for her to think that before getting up... What an a**hole, thought.

On the bright side, the creature was now missing a part of its head. It had been cleanly destroyed by the breath attack.

She didn't even know how the thing was still alive despite that.

SKKKKRRRR!

It even screeched!

"Tsk. This thing really likes giving me a hard time, huh?" The weary Raya complained.

And it was around this time that Muku appeared on the other side and began observing the battle.

He has clearly missed the most epic part. Hopefully, Mrs C will be kind enough to show it to him...

Though if he had seen it, he probably would have dissed Raya by asking why a beast needed a beast mode. Like wtf, how much of a trash would one have to be to need that?

Like a human needing a human mode. Even if it was cool, Muku would still throw shade. Like any good friend would do.