Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 68: Blood Corruption!

"Now I can’t help but wonder if the lizard king was actually a lizard king or just a lizard baron pretending to be king?". Muku said with his hand on his chin while looking in front of him. The girls looked at him and rolled their eyes. Not like it had told them it was king, they are the ones who named it that, yet hear he was shamelessly blaming it.

The reason why Muku even said such a thing was because of the ten Half-step R2 giant lizards surrounding them. Each seemed to at least be as strong as the one Jade killed before, while some were even stronger.

"Jade, I think they are here for you. Should we step back and let you handle it like last time?". Muku spoke while looking at Jade with a serious expression on his face as if he was really going to it if she agreed.

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"Well, sure, you can definitely step back, just be ready to collect my corpse soon after...if there’s any left. Oh, and send me away with the words of a love song, okay?". Jade replied while rolling her eyes, the others giggled after hearing her answer. She threw in a reference from the song "If I Die Young" by "The Band Perry". Muku definitely didn’t see that coming and didn’t know how to respond.

"Well, I refuse to let you get stabbed by the sharp knife of a short life, so I’ll help you out". Muku spoke after finally thinking of a comeback, and before Jade could say anything else, he’d already jumped toward the closest lizard. Everyone else also engaged some lizards of their own.

"Mother, do you want me to assist you?" Layla asked Audrey while distracting three lizards with her ice attacks. Muku was fighting two, Jade two, Chloe one, Emily one, Hope one, Layla was also supposed to fight two and Audrey the last one due to their current strength. But Layla was worried that Audrey might not be able to fight the lizard since she was still just a peak rank one.

"Thanks for worrying for me, dear, but I’m okay; I can at least distract you while you deal with your own fights. Who knows, maybe I will be able to realise some potential this way" Audrey replied with a loving smile on her face, but resolution radiated from her eyes. Seeing her like this, although she wanted to say something else, Layla chose to remain quiet as she could tell her mother wouldn’t back down no matter what she said. And maybe she was right, this could just be what she needed to realise her potential.

"Okay, just be careful okay". Layla said before going closer to the two lizards she was to deal with, hoping to kill them quickly and come back to watch over her mother.

"Sigh, what a good child I have. I shouldn’t let her down". Audrey spoke to herself, then sped toward the lizard that was left for her to fight. Although it was the weakest one among all the giant lizards present, it was still a lot stronger than her.

"Roar!" Seeing the weakling of the group of prey they had surrounded running toward it with unmasked killing intent, the giant lizard roared in anger. It felt insulted, like how a human would feel insulted if a chicken directed killing intent at them...unless the human is one of those who are actually afraid of a chickens that is.

Boom!

A low booming sound was heard as a large earth spike rose from the ground below Audrey just as she stepped on it. It seems the beast had good timing as Audrey barely had time to react. Although she managed to get out of the way, her arm, which she had subconsciously put in front of her as a form of defence, was cut open from the elbow to her hand.

Luckily for the beast, Layla was preoccupied at the time and didn’t see what happened or it might have just made her use her shadow charged. Audrey held herself from screaming in pain as she knew Layla would definitely get involved if she made a sound.

{If I can affect other people’s blood with my mana, I should be able to affect mine right?} Audrey thought to herself as she kept on dodging the lizard’s earth spikes. It didn’t try to do anything else other than that, likely playing with her since it sensed no danger from her.

This, in turn, gave her more time to experiment with herself; she knew what she was doing was probably super dangerous. If she messed it up, she might blow up her own hand, which was the only thing she could do with her mana when it came into contact with blood so far. After trying out everything she could think of for about a minute while jumping around the place, she finally managed to mix her mana into her blood and stop it from flowing out. If she wanted to stop it from coming out, she would have just created a barrier around the injury. But that was something anyone could do, and she wanted to do more. Another minute passed by, and she finally got what she wanted.

All the blood that was all over her and the lizard’s battlefield started to gather together on the ground, unbeknownst to the lizard. Audrey didn’t show any changes of expression on her face and continued dodging the lizard like she did before, but this time there was a glow of excitement threatening to break out of her eyes.

After a bit more time, all of Audrey’s blood gathered into a little red blob and then took the shape of a short dagger. That’s right, Audrey had learned blood manipulation.

The dagger then made its way to the unsuspecting giant lizard that was merrily toying with its food, then...

Woosh!

Stab!

"Rooooar!" The giant lizard roared loudly in pain, but its comrades couldn’t come to help it as they were all also going through their own painful experiences or were already dead.

"I’m not done!.... BLOOD CORRUPTION!" Audrey called out and the lizard immediately stopped roaring and just stood still. Then its remaining yellow eye turned completely blood red, quickly followed by its green scales that also turned blood red.

BOOM!

A blood-red aura immediately exploded out of Audrey’s body. Everyone around her felt suffocated by it, they felt like their blood wanted to jump out of their bodies, which they had to resist with all their might. This was the case whether it was the girls or the remaining two lizards that Layla was fighting. Muku was the only one who felt completely fine, hell he even felt like the aura was giving him a massage. No, it wasn’t because of his strength or class, it was because of his bloodline, the very source of Audrey’s current strength and abilities. Not that he could also manipulate blood; that was just it having personalised itself to Audrey’s class, but the core of it was still the same. And there was no way a small flame could burn the raging fire it originated from after all.

Luckily Muku noticed what was happening with the girls and shielded them with his aura. He then conveniently killed off the two remaining lizards.

....

[Unique Class potential fully realised. Evolution to Rank Two commencing....]

This was the prompt Audrey received just before her aura exploded. Then her body was plagued by a familiar numbness, this time more intense. She could almost feel her cells being improved throughout her whole body.

That’s right, Audrey was the first one in their group to reach Rank 2. That’s right, she realised all of her potential in one battle. When she opened her eyes again, her aura quickly started getting sucked back into her body until no one could even sense that she was actually a legit Rank Two or even an Evolver for that matter. That is if it wasn’t for the dangerous feeling she gave off even without releasing her aura.

And to the dismay of the others she now looked even more gorgeous. Muku could already imagine the headaches they have every time they come across any man or woman,, for that matte,r, who can’t control their lust. He also couldn’t help but wonder if the other girls would also end up as beautiful as her. If it really turned out like that, wouldn’t he be hated by every man they meet?.

"So not this is the strength of an initial stage Rank Two huh?... We wouldn’t have even been able to fight back if it was an enemy fighting back. Just the aura was enough to defeat us all. If I knew that before, I’d have voted for going to a safe zone!" Jade exclaimed, still in shock from how strong Audrey’s aura was. And she’s the weakest of the Rank Twos!?.

"Let’s get out of here, who knows if no Rank Two beasts are making their way here wanting to get rid of future potential?" Muku spoke up bringing the girl out of their stupor.

And with that, Muku’s group quickly left the scene. Luckily they were fighting a distance away from their base. After so many times of them causing commissions after battles, there was no way Muku would allow them to fight close to home and draw in beasts to them.

No one even bothered to ask about the blood-red giant lizard that was following behind them.

....

Like Muku predicted, around ten minutes after they left, a Mid Rank Two beast that was close by really did show up on the scene. Although it didn’t find the one who broke through. It still found free food and that was good enough for it. So it merrily feasted; everyone likes free things, after all.