novelzi Chapter 55 Half-step Rank Two!
Chapter 55 Half-step Rank Two!
"Roooooar!" × 10
"Well, seems the cavalry has arrived...a bit late, but here still. So much for keeping a low profile...." Muku said while looking at ten PR1 giant lizards that were fast approaching.
"Should we go meet them halfway?" Layla asked getting ready to get into action. The others girls also getting ready.
"Normally yes, but not this time. Sorry girls, but due to the commotion, we have to leave here quickly. So I'll take care of these ones alone. We can't stick around too long, lest we draw in more than one half-step R2 and lose our lives". Muku said before speeding forward.
The incoming lizards were likely the lizard king's underlings that came to assist it. It seems the lizard king was not only more powerful than the rat king but had stronger subordinates as well.
Chloe wanted to assist, but to do that she'd have to use the "lightning coat" to be fast enough. Remembering how it went down the last time, she gave up the idea, he could handle it alone anyway.
As Muku sped forward, he held out his hand to the side and a huge sword like the one he used to kill the giant lizards when he took care of the punk gang appeared. It was the perfect weapon them in his opinion, of course, these ones were a bit stronger and bigger. To which he responded by making the sword even bigger than before.
"With my current strength, this should be quite easy.... Shooting Start Sword!" Muku shouted out the name of his spell at the end of his sentence, and the giant sword in his hand flew forward.
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Bang!
[36 kills left.....]
Muku's sword managed to kill four lizards before it was stopped by the fifth dye to lack of enough momentum. Each lizard actually gave 6 KL, not too different from the MR1s but he wouldn't complain about it either since there were just enough for him to meet the kill count!
"If one isn't enough, take two!". As soon as his words fell, two more swords formed and flew forward. This time none managed to block and were all wiped out. It was so easy to kill them off because after the death of the first four, the rest tried to flee, making them easy pickings for Muku's sword. It seemed, these lizards only go berserk for their mate and not any member of their race. That or the PR1s were whimpy after gaining more intelligence. Well whatever the reason was, it only made things easier for Muku and he wouldn't complain. As soon as the last beast fell.....@@@@
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Boom!
Twenty minutes after Muku's group left, the familiar monster made it to the battle scene. It didn't even look for the gate and directly broke through the mansion's surrounding wall. And it seemed so effortless, like it was going through a sheet of paper, yet it was a large wall made out of rocks and concrete.
This time though, there was a look of confusion in its eyes, it couldn't sense were the new half-step beast it sensed went. This was a first for it, as it could always tell were the strongest beasts in the city where at all times, just felt like it wasn't time to eat them yet. But this time a beast manages to escape it's senses, this angered it greatly, anger now visible in its eyes. Who wouldn't be pissed if their food tempted them with its scent and then ran away?.
As for why Muku managed to escape the beast's senses, it was because he had wrapped his whole group in a telekinesis bubble that didn't let any aura leak out. He had also erased their presence around the mansion area before leaving. Although he felt like he was just being paranoid, he didn't know that his paranoia saved them.
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"So are you going to tell us what happened? And why we left in such a hurry". Emily asked after they ran a few kilometres away and were now resting in some random mansion. They were still in the privileged area, so mansions were everywhere.
"Just take my word when I say, of we had stayed, there was no escaping death...and why are you suddenly talking so informally to your teacher?". Muku said the first part seriously then caught on to the way Emily was now speaking and asked while looking at her with confusion, she was usually hus most respectful student after all, even more so than Layla and Chloe.
"Well this is how I am going to speak from now on, we're no longer in school, so I don't see why I need to still call you sir when we're now companions instead of teacher and student". Emily said with a serious expression, clearly not going to back down from her new position, surprisingly everyone greatly as they wondered what brought in the sudden change.
They were not wrong to assume, something happened that caused her to change, it was earlier on when she thought she'd lose Muku when they mistook his aura. Although it was clearly cleared up, she realised that they're current lives weren't as guaranteed as before, so if she held back too much, who knows if she'll suddenly die without even making her feelings known to Muku. Which would be an eternal regret to her even after death. So she took her first step to making her feelings known, making Muku realise that their roles weren't the same as before.
Chloe and Layla narrowed their eyes a bit while looking at her, seeing the fire in her eyes. They then looked at each other, both of them had realised what Emily was trying to do. A fire started burning in their eyes as well, they refused to fall behind, and thought, if she was going to do it, they will do it as well. Audrey just looked on, a wryly smile on her face, she didn't know what to do in such a situation as a mother figure to all these girls.
"Whatever floats your boat I guess". Muku replied nonchalantly, as for whether he understood what Emily was trying to do, only he knew.