Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

About an hour later....

They hadn't met too many Rank One beasts, only two actually. Muku took care of one while Jade took care of another. Bringing their kill counts needed to 86 and 88 respectively. When Adam's group saw Jade transform, their eyes almost popped out of their heads. Accept for John who had seen her before from afar, but even he was awed seeing her from a close angle.

It was quite shocking to see a person turn into a cat hybrid after all. Not to mention how she easily took care of a LR1 lizard, which their leaders would have to team up to barely win against after a long battle. With her show of power up close, their respect for Muku's group increased.

Then they made a detour toward Layla's house. It was at the edge of the outer area of the city. Any further into the city they would be in the middle areas and the chance of meeting MR1s would increasing drastically. Anyway back at Jade's house. It was still standing unlike Hope's house. Though her foster mother wasn't there, all she found was a letter addressed to her.

It said...."To my lovely daughter Layla, if you're reading this letter then I'm glad you survived and even came to check on me. Anyway, my chances of surviving this are low but I'm going to try to get to the safe zone....not that I have that much time left anyway. Just incase we never meet again, I want to apologise to you for being so cold all these years. You see, the year I adopted you, I had been diagnosed with leukemia, and it was quite progressed so my chances for survival were low. They said I'd likely die in a few years. I accepted my fate, but before that I wanted to experience my dream of being a mother. So selfishly I adopted you, but since I didn't want you to be too sad when I eventually died, I tried to keep you at a certain distance. For that I'm truly sorry, I hope you can forgive me one day. And I hope you know that I always loved you. Honestly I'm not even sure why I am writing this right now, I guess I again selfishly want you to remember me positively if possible.

Sincerely, your undeserving mother."

Before she even knew it, tears were streaming down Layla's face.

"I always knew you cared mom, your eyes betrayed you from the start. I was only playing along since I knew you had your reasons....but this.". Layla spoke as more tears flowed out.

The others just looked on from a bit of a distance away, they hadn't read the letter so didn't know what to say to her. They didn't know why she was even crying, which was already surprising since Layla never showed any emotions before. As for Adam and his group, they were outside, a bit scared since there was always a chance of being attacked out there alone. But they couldn't say anything as the weaker party...much much weaker party, hell, they were so weak they were insignificant and they knew it.

Layla wiped her tears away, put on a brave face and faced Muku, looking him in the eyes. She stayed like that for a while without saying anything, her eyes still a bit red from the crying. Muku looked back awkwardly, he didn't know what to do in the situation. But as a manly man he would never look away, so also stared back.

"Thank you for insisting on coming here, I learned something important because of it. The answer to a question I've had for years. The answer she probably wouldn't have told me if we met in person.". After a minute of staring at Muku and collecting her thoughts she finally spoke.

"Anytime...you're my student after all, so it's only natural" Muku replied back with a smile. He didn't know wtf she was talking about but as long as she wasn't staring at him so intensely anymore, it was good enough for him.

"Lets go, we shouldn't delay anymore, it's already midday, with some unavoidable obstacles on the way, it should take us a while to reach the stadium." Layla said as she walked toward the door. The others nodded and walked out after her.

Adam's group were happy to see them finally coming out. It was super unnerving to stand out in the open without their strong guards after all. With that, their journey continued. Finally entering the territory of the MR1s. The situation was going to be a bit tough from now on. Muku and his group could all somewhat sense it with their superior senses so they weren't as relaxed as before.

In fact they were wondering how Adam's group managed to make it out of a place that felt so dangerous. What they didn't know was that Adam's group was just one of the lucky few as half most got killed already. And as for why they had to go so far for food?...well the MR1s had occupied most shop areas. If LR1s can deduce that humans will come to them if they stayed in such areas, then MR1s can do it, in fact they were doing it to a larger extent than the LR1s.

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"....Mr Adam, I think you and your group should step back for this one". Muku said as he looked at the three giant lizards heading their way. They were all MR1s and their aura was surprisingly stronger than the peak Rank One killer dog boss. Adam's group didn't need to be told twice, they ran back and Hope went with them as their protector just in case.

"Emily and Chloe, you both have recovered right?...coz we might need your attacks to make this quick, Jade and Layla, you two take care of the last one.". Muku asked Emily and Chloe who nodded then continued to give out orders.

Remembering the first with the dog boss, they knew this one was going to be a tough fight, they were all still a bit away from MR1 which starts at 50 kills.

Chloe and Emily started building up their attacks while Muku set out to delay the two beasts they would attack. Jade and Layla sped to their beast in hopes of killing it off quick and standing by to assist if anything went wrong.

All though the situation was tense, everyone couldn't help but feel a bit excited, they were a lot stronger from before now. So they wanted to see how they would fare against beasts even stronger than the dog boss that was their toughest fight to date.

"Hmm, how am I gonna delay two beasts though?". Muku said as he went to meet the two beasts after Layla and Jade had already led one a bit away from the others.

"Oh, I know, I've gotten a lot stronger now, so I should be able to...". As Muku's voice trailed off, Sword after sword where appearing in the air behind him. When they stopped appearing there were already twenty and Muku's face had gotten a bit pale. He had only used half his mana, the reason his face was pale was because was because it took quite a lot of mental power to control so many objects at the same time. Being an evolved human it was a lot easier for him than normal humans but it was his first time trying it, so of course it was straining for him.

When Chloe and Emily who were looking on as they gathered power so this, they were surprised a bit since it seemed like a too big a jump from three. But they always looked up to their teacher so thought it was only natural. When they thought he was going to attack each lizard with ten swords, something unexpected happen.

The swords started merging together until only two larger swords were left. They were each four metres long and one metre wide. Spinning around Muku in mid air, quite frankly the scene looked cool to the little girls.

Then something that made their eyes almost pop out happened.

(A/N: To be continued... hehehe)