Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

Chapter 48 Chloe and Emily step in!

That's right, the two giant rats that were around two metres tall, were both peak Rank Ones!. These would be the first PR1s the group has come across ever since the dog boss.

"Well luckily these rats are giving an aura around the same as the dog boss. Which makes sense considering that the LR1s of their species only counted for one kill point each... quite disappointing actually". Jade said. After the initial suprise of the sudden appearance of the two beasts, everyone realised that their auras weren't anything special.

"Can I take one of them?, I feel I need to develop my fighting style a bit more, I lack diversity like Layla has". Emily was the first to ask for a rat.

"Yeah, you're right. And I'll take the other, we really shouldn't continue relying on our one hit kill skills that are over the top anyway". Chloe seconded her. As she said, she and Emily along with Hope tended to condense most of their mana into one attack which then left them powerless. Although it got the job done, it wasn't really a good game plan as they might get into situations were they'll have to fight more than a single target.

"I'll take down my ice barrier then.". Layla said and I'm the next moment, she and the rest were standing a distance away from Emily, Chloe and the rats.

"You can do it girls!" Muku screamed from the sidelines.

"Hey!, did you really have to move so far away!?'. Emily screamed back dumbstruck by how quickly they all moved away.@@@@

Chloe looked on with a wryly smile on her face. Quite frankly she also wanted to move away, nobody wanted to be around when Emily fought. The girl really liked making her flames explode on impact for some reason, which tossed debris all over the place. At one point Muku was almost stabbed on the kidney by a stray glass shard from one of her impact points where there was a building behind the beast.

"Umm, Emily, why don't I lead my rat a bit away before you attack yours so that we don't get in each other's way?" Chloe said while looking at Emily nervously, hoping she doesn't realise the real reason she wanted to move away from her.

"So you also don't trust me huh?, it was only one time and he stopped it didn't he?, you know what, whatever, do what you want hmph!". Sadly for Chloe, Emily caught on.

But since she had gotten what she wanted she quickly got into action, saving the apology for later.

"I can finally try it out!". Chloe's voice rang out in excitement. As an anime fan she had seen quite a few where lightning had been used and she was about to copy one of those techniques.

"Lightning coat!"

She screamed out and her body was enveloped by blue lightning that crackled all over and...

Whoosh!

She sped forward, leaving a blue lightning trail behind her. Surprisingly her speed was almost as fast as Jade's fasted speed!. And it could be seen that with enough training she will reach Jade's speed, if not surpass it.

Bang! Squeak! Boom!

In less than a minute she was beside one of the rats and punched it on the guts with her lightning charged fist. Surprisingly the force was enough to throw it onto a car that was abandoned close by. The rat squeaked in pain from both the lightning punch and being smashed into a car. But it didn't stay down for long and ran toward Chloe as soon as it got up who led it a bit of distance away from the other one.

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What they didn't know was that the moment Chloe killed the rat, two large crimson eyes opened up in a nearby building.

As soon as they opened, Jade started feeling like something was wrong. But since she couldn't detect anything, she didn't voice it out to the others, but she subconsciously out her guard up. Which Muku sensed but didn't say anything since she didn't say anything, but also prepared for any sudden situational changes as he and the others looked at Emily's battle while Chloe walked back to them.

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A few moments ago...

After Chloe led her rat away, Emily's battle also began.

"Flame burst!" She threw her first spell at the rat.

Boom!

Squeak!

The rat had underestimated the firepower of her small fireball and so didn't dodge. It turned around to hit the fireball with it's tail instead. It managed to get the work done by successfully hitting it, but...it lost half of its tail because of it which left it squeaking in pain.

It's eyes turned red and charged toward Emily.

"Flame burst!". Emily readied to receive it by summoning five five balls in front of her.

Seeing the fire balls, the rat hesitate and didn't continue it's charge and actually started stepping back. It seemed to have enough intelligence to know it would suffer greatly if it was hit with all those at once. Because of this it started circling Emily from a distance, looking for a chance to strike.

It was at this time that Emily managed to see Chloe concluding her battle with a cool new skill. Which also seemed to fulfill their target, a finisher that didn't take all their mana and leave them powerless as Chloe was smiling and still looked rosy despite the fight with a PR1. Of course the fact that the rat was only about as strong as a MR1 lizard might be the reason the fight was so easy for Chloe, among other reasons like her sizable strength.

"Damn!, she's already done it!, I can't even copy it with my fire or my clothes would be burnt off me. Only if I had better control over it, maybe I could do it....and this rat is really starting to piss me off!". Emily spoke to herself, frustration clear in her voice. She couldn't think of ways to minimise her mana usage while keeping the attacks strong enough.

"Flame storm!"

And so she gave up and created another effective but costly attack. She screamed out as she opened her arms and flames appeared in-between, spreading out the further they went.

The rat that was caught unprepared was turned to ash before it could escape.

[75 kills left....]

"Oh well, I'll try again another day". Emily said to herself with a wryly smile on her now pale face.