Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

Chapter 74 Hidden Attributes!

[Agility has increased by 1 point due to beast meat consumed]

The above prompt is the reason why Emily screamed in surprise. Just when she thought nothing could surprise her anymore, this happened.

"What's wrong?". Jade asked while still eyeing the meat even though she was already full. Emily didn't mind her distracted expression and explained what happened. At the end of her expression, even Jade was fully concentrated on listening to what she was saying.

"So what you're saying is, eating the meat improved your dexterity?" Jade asked for confirmation.@@@@

"Yeah". Emily replied while nodding.

"No, fair; why didn't my agility improve then?" Jade, who couldn't take it when good things didn't also happen to her when they happened to others, quickly complained.

"Maybe your agility is too high for the meat to make a difference", Layla chimed in with a thoughtful look on her face.

"Hey!, are you calling me slow?" Emily immediately protested.

"Well, you definitely aren't faster than anyone in the group. Even Hope is faster than you...maybe it's because of your large chest." Jade immediately took the chance to make fun of Emily's chest, which she secretly envied.

"Hmph!". Emily didn't know how to refuse the statement despite knowing that Jade was making fun of her. Her chest really made it hard for her to fight while moving, which she found out the hard way when she fought the giant lizard. Though now that she thought of it, she was never good at sports either.

"So you're saying, the lower one's agility is, the easier it is to increase by consuming beast meat?" Chloe asked Layla, she was pretty interested in the topic.

"Very likely, but we'll have to experiment by eating more beast meat", Layla replied; she wasn't too sure yet after only one case, though she felt she was at least close to the truth.

"Maybe it's not just agility that can be increased from eating beast meat. I might be reading too much into it but I don't think it's a coincidence that an agile beast's meat increased Emily's agility. Maybe a strength-type beast would have increased her strength instead". Muku gave his own take on the matter after thinking for a bit.

"That makes sense, wouldn't that mean we have hidden attributes on top of our elements and ranks? I wonder how many they are!" Chloe excitedly added to Muku's statement. Being a seasoned otaku, such things were what excited her the most.

"Hmm, hidden attributes. That sounds appropriate". Layla agreed with the term Chloe called it.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever; what I got from this conversation is that we will have to hunt down and eat as many different kinds of beasts as we can, right?". Jade asked the group with sparkling eyes from the excitement she was feeling. She was already imagining herself sitting on top of a mountain made of different kinds of roasted beast meat.

"This incorrigible foody," Emily said while rolling her eyes at Jade.

"No, let's stand down and watch for now. Maybe we got ourselves some nice ghost neighbours and they'll visit us soon to introduce themselves". The young man gave his order along with a joke.

"Sigh, sometimes I'm not sure if you're joking or not but okay. There's another issue that needs the agent addressing. We're running out of food, and with every food store or shop around us destroyed, we can't easily find it. Though even if they weren't destroyed, we would have run out of it soon enough since there's no longer any food production." The blonde lady reported another issue.

"Oh, that, that's a real problem, isn't it? Why not eat beast meat then... most of them just look like oversized versions of what we eat anyway" The young man made a suggestion.

"With all due respect sir, only a mad people would consume alien meat just because it sort of looks like the meat they know. Even mushrooms that kind of look the same can't all be eaten.". The blonde lady strongly denied the idea.

"But some of them can. Anyway, if you're going to deny the idea so strongly, then you better have a better solution to the problem. And why are we even worrying about feeding everyone anyway? Wasn't it already agreed upon that everyone would look after themselves?" The young man replied.

"I do, actually, and as for why we're feeding everyone, it's because you're secretly a good person who couldn't bear to see others suffer so much." The blonde-haired lady spoke with a cheeky smile on her face.

"Tsk, whatever. Just tell me the plan and go away already; I want to rest," The young man said while rolling his eyes.

"Okay, there were four rice silos around fifteen kilometres east of here before the apocalypse, so now it should be maybe thirty kilometres away. Although they likely also fell during the evolution, we should still be able to salvage a lot of the rice by moving away a bit of rubble. That should last us long enough for us to figure out our next step." The blonde lady explained her plan.

"Thirty kilometres!? Might as well kill beasts instead, then! Do you know how long such a distance is?. Not to mention the beasts we'll definitely meet. You're only saying this because you weren't there when a Rank Two flew us by. I'm telling you, if that thing didn't see us as little ants unworthy of its stomach, we wouldn't be here right now!" The young man exploded out in complaints.

"I know it's dangerous, but it's all we can do. Even if we go with your idea of killing beasts, how many will we be able to kill in a day? And can you guarantee that there will always be enough close by to kill? Not to mention, what if they are too strong to kill, and you get killed instead? Please, Jack, this week's our only choice" The blonde-haired lady spoke emotionally, even calling the young man by his name.

"Sigh, I'll do it if you're even willing to break your own promise to keep our relationship professional when working. Seriously though Sarah, sometimes I wonder which one of us is the real leader here. It's like I'm just a puppet while you're the one holding my strings. This is why there are rumours of me being henpecked going around". Jack agreed to her plan, but not without grumbling about it.

"Hehehe, that's why I love you. And don't mind the rumours; what do they know about our love, huh?" Sarah completely tossed out professionalism as she spoke while walking over to Jack and giving him a hug, pressing his head on her sizeable chest.

"Of course, you'd say that. Such a devious girlfriend you are. Anyway, what about the other side? Do you think they will help us?". Jack asked after taking in a bit of his girlfriend's intoxicating scent.

"Sigh, they have been getting more unruly as time passes by. It's like they are losing their humanity and turning into beasts in human skin. So I'm not sure if they will help. At this point, I'm actually afraid that they will backstab us actually". Sarah replied to Jack's question. Completely ignoring how he called her devious, he has been calling her that even before the apocalypse after all, but their love has always remained strong.

"Truly a shame, to think they'd allow such little power to go to their heads. I wish they meet a Rank Two soon and be humbled. To think it all began after we barely took down a Half-step R2 beast just two days ago. How can a person's head grow so much in such little time?" Jack expressed his disappointment in his old schoolmates, whom he thought were comrades.

"Well, all I know is that if we understood them, then we would likely be no different from them. So I think it's okay for us not to understand" Sarah replied to him in a soft voice. But she didn't get a reply back. She looked down at him and noticed that he'd fallen asleep in her arms.

"Sleep tight, my crimson mage,", She said with a gentle smile and hugged him even tighter. Soon even she fell asleep....