Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 49: Lightning judgement!
"Sooo, what happened to developing less costly attacks?". Muku asked after he and the group walked up Emily who was now too tired to even walk to them.
"I’ll come up with something next time, of not, I’ll just evolve and get stronger this way until I can afford to use these spells as much as I want. All of you can take care of the marathons while I’ll just sprint.". Emily said with a laid back expression, clearly she had mostly given up on reducing the expenditure and distraction of her attacks. She was on her way to be someone Megumin would give a thumbs up.
(A/N: Megumin is one of the main characters from the anime "Konosuba" who always uses all her magic power in one attack and refuses to learn any other spells even when they are more cost effective. Another one of author-san’s favourites)
"Okay, whatever floats your boat I guess". Muku shrugged, as whatever she chose she’d still be very useful. With her current firepower, she can be like the group’s secret one use weapon when fighting stronger enemies and can support herself on weaker ones...of course she’ll have to create better skills sooner or later.
"Oh and you too Chloe, good job, what amazing work you did" Muku said with a smile while placing his hand on Chloe’s shoulder.
Crumble!
As if waiting for this one final push, Chloe’s clothes broke apart and crumbled to the ground before the little pieces were carried away by the wind. Leaving her completely naked and right in front of Muku. It seemed her "lightning coat" skill had basically destroyed her clothes when it continuously travelled through them and they were barely holding on until Muku touched them and they fell apart. Everyone froze, the smile also freezing on Muku’s face as his and Chloe’s eyes met.
"Ahhhhh!". Chloe’s piercing scream was heard as she tried to cover her privates with her hands. Without thinking, Muku took off his t-shirt and drapped it over Chloe’s naked body and turned around to look away from her.
"Y-you pervert!". Jade was the first one to summer as she screamed at Muku with a red face as if she was the one who was exposed.
As for Chloe she probably wore Muku’s t-shirt that was luckily long enough to be like a dress to her. And then covered her eyes with her hands before looking away from the others, she didn’t know how to face them after what such a thing. She felt like she could just die from all the embarrassment. Her mind going crazy, her thoughts all over the place....
{He saw everything!, What am I going to do now?. Should I make him take responsibility?. How am I going to face the others now?. Will they think it was deliberate? What kind of perverted skill did I create!? And....HE WAS EVERYTHING!!}
The others just looked at her with wryly expressions not knowing what to say, even Audrey didn’t know. She also had never had her body seen by a man after all.
"It was an accident you idiot!. I’m sorry Chloe, I didn’t mean to.". Muku screamed at Jade without turning back. The brat was really trying to add fuel to the fire. He also apologised to Chloe.
"I-its okay, I know my skill caused it, you have nothing to be sorry for. I should be the one apologising for showing you such an indecent thing". Chloe summered a bit as she replied. She couldn’t blame him, since no one thought that her new skill would do such a thing.
"Oh no, you dont have to apologise, I quite lik...".
"ROAR!!!"
As Muku was about to say something that would have definitely gotten him called pervert by more than just Jade this time. He was luckily interrupted by a super loud roar and all his senses screamed "danger!". As he and the whole group looked in the direction of the scream.
There it stood on two legs. A giant rat, even among giant rats. A rat that roared instead of squeak. Greyish fur, two upper front teeth long enough to be daggers and likely just as sharp, long sharp claws on its feet and even longer and sharper claws on its long and muscular upper body limps, crimson eyes, a standing height around four meters!, and wind swirling around it!?. Along with a new stage the group didn’t know existed.
"Half-step Rank Two!?....this aura, it’s worlds apart from anything we’ve seen before. I feel like a child in front of an adult". Muku said with a frown while gathering power to.... defend?
That’s right, unlike before, Muku didn’t want to fight this thing. His first thought was to runaway. But he somehow felt that escape was impossible, especially with his large group that involved pure mage types who weren’t that fast.
"Chloe, condense all your mana into your ultimate attack, Hope, you too. Layla, support me, Jade, don’t engage in close combat yet, Ms Audrey...look after Emily" Muku gave his orders while his eyes didn’t dare stray from the beast even for a second.
The others hearing him talk so seriously did exactly as they were told. From his tone they knew that this battle was going to be on a completely different level from the ones they had before. There was a real possibility of dying here. They all got the notification for the beast’s rank after all.
"Roar!!!"
The giant rat walking on two legs with muscular almost human like arms ran in their direction, eyes filled with furry. The two PR1 rats they killed were its mates after all. It was going to tear each and every one of them apart for what they did.
"Giant Cleaver!". For the first time Muku also called out the names of his skills for more concentration to show the seriousness of the situation.
And with this shout a large rectangular blade with a length of five metres and a width of two metres materialised in front of him and flew toward the approaching beast. In normal cases, the blade will easily split the beast in two but this time it was different.
Bang! Boom!
The beast actually slapped the blade away with easy and continued it’s approach. Greatly shocking everyone from Muku’s group, they at least expectes it to put in a bit of effort into deflecting it after all.
"Shrike’s frozen spear!". Layla attacked soon after recovering, going for the skill that killed Death’s Shadow.
Bang!
And again they were appalled, the beast evaded the pillar and broke it apart with one slap.
"Fuck!.... Silver spear rain!". Muku pulled out another skill after Layla’s attack failed.
Twenty silver spears appeared above the beast and dropped aiming at it, as soon as they fell, more formed then after they fell even more formed. This repeated five times. The girls seeing this were a bit surprised, they had assumed that Muku could only create swords...which apparently wasn’t true. Which makes sense really, he was a metal warlock not a sword warlock after all.
Bang! Bang! Bang!....
The five waves all hit the target, while a few strays would hit the ground causing dust to rise up, completely covering the beast. For a few seconds everyone stood still waiting to see if that attack worked.
Then suddenly, the dust was blown away, making the giant rat king visible again. Of the hundred spears that fell on it, only three managed to pass through its wind barrier and lend on its body. Even those three didn’t seem to do mush damage after stabbing its back, only angering it even more.
"ROAR!!!"
The beast roared again, even louder than before. At this point it was just around ten metres away. Then it sped forward again.
"Hope now!". Muku ordered hope to release her attack. The dark green ball of poison she had been condensing that was just as big as a soccer ball was thrust forward.
Boom!
It exploded into a region of green mist at the spot the rat was. She had taken some inspiration from how Emily made her attacks explode on impact. The poison was quickly mixed in into the beast’s swirling wind barrier which allowee some of it to get to the rat. It wasn’t enough to do significant damage to it considering their differences in strength but it was enough to irritate its eyes, bringing the rat to a halt as it roared with its hands on its eyes.
Due to its lapse in concentration, it’s wind barrier visibly lost most of its strength. And on that matter, it seemed the rat could only use the wind to defend and not attack or it would have likely already done it by then.
"Chloe!". Muku noticed the declined defense and screamed out to Chloe to act. Even if she was close to him and he didn’t have to shout, he felt it would convey the severity of the situation. As the rat seemed to already be recovering, which would make it’s defense super strong again.
"Lightning judgement beam!".
Boom!
Chloe screamed out and a two metre wide beam of lightning shot of the area in front of her arms she was opening wide. Her normally brown eyes now glowing blue. It was so quick it made a boom sound as it broke the sound barrier aiming at the rat king’s chest area. The recoil sent her flying back, by Muku would had been expecting this grabbed her with his telekinesis. He quickly noticed that Chloe had lost consciousness. She had used every ounce of mana she had in the attack after all, so it only made sense to faint, this was her first time going all out... luckily she didn’t destroy her clothes this time.
[30% of Pseudo-Legendary class potential realised]
It was at this moment the rat king finally opened its eyes, which then widened at the attack it knew it couldn’t avoid. It solidified it’s defense as much as it could in such little time and then...
Bang!!
The attack hit it’s barrier and shuttered it with little resistance and smashed right into its chest. The beast was lifted off the ground and thrown back wards, getting rammed through a house and coming out through the other side. Its chest area now having a scorched black spot that covered all of it and a part of its hands and stomach. It’s fur and surface skin was burnt off. Sparks of blue lightning crackling all over its body as its body spasmed. Blood flowing out of its mouth.
The beast looked like it was close to death, that’s just how devastating Chloe’s all out attack was. Hell it wasn’t even all out since she had used a decent amount of mana in a battle before otherwise this attack might have blown a whole through the rat instead.
It truly deserved to be called lightning judgement....
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