Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

"Ms Freya, can you tell me more about your class?" Muku then turned to Freya. Completely ignoring Lisa, as if the whole incident with her didn't happen.

"A...y-yes, my class description says I need to be in a house to use my abilities. And I need something called Beast Cores as well. From what I could gather, it turns me into something like the house's manager, allowing me to upgrade it as well as fight with it after getting stronger" Freya explained, a little nervous at the start but calmed down soon after. She didn't want to waste his time by stuttering all over the place.

"Well, that's certainly unique...It kinda sounds like you'll turn the house into a fortress or something" Muku commented, his curiosity peaked by her class.

"There's a big problem, though: I don't have a house. And there are none outside. Yet without one I'm useless" Freya finally mentioned the part that made her feel gloomy.

She had been quite excited about her class at the beginning thinking that it was super strong even when she couldn't understand some stuff. But when she realised that she had no house, she immediately fell from heaven right into hell.

"Oh... Yeah, that does seem to be quite the problem. But for now, I think you should continue ranking up with the rest instead of giving up. Who knows what the future holds right? You might be able to come across a house that's still standing one of these days" Muku spoke, trying to cheer up Freya.

Of course, he meant what he said. They had come across a few standing buildings even after the great collapse after the planet's evolution. So there's gotta be a standing house for her to occupy somewhere. However, he couldn't help but feel like he was missing something...

"Okay... I'll do that; I can at least make my body stronger for self-defence, even if I can only make it average at best", Freya replied, agreeing to his proposition.

After seeing what weakness could lead to, she wasn't willing to give up so easily. Maybe like he said, one day she will find a house and make proper use of her class. Or she could build it herself after getting physically strong enough.

"Good, that's the spirit. Now, your group of fifteen will join us today. Newbies can't join because my other team members aren't present right now. They didn't feel like coming. Anyway, you should all know that we won't be babying you like yesterday. I'll just throw a certain number of beasts your way and you will have to mostly take care of yourselves after that" Muku explained how the day was going to go if Freya's group wanted to go along. He wouldn't continue to baby them.

"Oh. I'm okay with it. I don't know about the others... And what about Lisa?" Freya didn't mind the arrangement, but she also didn't decide for everyone else.

She wasn't sure if Muku was willing to let Lisa join after all that had happened. So she hesitated when she asked. But she felt like she had to. While she didn't like Lisa's behaviour and how she sold her out. She didn't think that it was reason enough to break the girl's path to a better future. She just wasn't that type of ruthless person.

"How nice of you. And like I said, that matter is already done with. She can do whatever she wants now. Whether to come or not is up to her... Wait, I just remembered something..." Muku spoke with a hint of admiration for Freya's personality.

It was probably hard to find such people in the apocalypse, with good reason too. After all, the dog-eat-dog world had become even more so. The chance of death from showing mercy had increased as well. But he still liked such stupid people more than any other.

That's when he trailed off, having suddenly thought of something. He had remembered the remaining gang members from Mest's gang. They were so insignificant to him that if not for the random thought, he wouldn't have remembered them.

"I take it you're talking about the captives" Freya immediately guessed what he was talking about.

"Yeah... Where are they? What have you all decided to do with them?" Muku confirmed her guess.

"About that... They are dead. We found them all dead this morning. Their throats were sliced open in the middle of the night. We don't know who did it though. And we've already thrown their bodies away," Freya reported with a little bit of hesitation, not knowing what he would do. She dared not predict how he would react to things after what had happened with Lisa.

"Oh, what a shame. Seems someone couldn't wait to get their revenge. Oh well, it didn't have much to do with me anyway, so whatever. I don't know how Jade is going to take it when she finds out though. She had been looking forward to seeing how they would be punished. Whoever did it might have to watch out for her. The girl is rather petty" Muku replied, not too moved by the news.

Like he said, they technically hadn't done anything wrong to him. So there was no reason to be bothered by how they died. As for Jade, however, she was unreasonable enough not to care about such logic.

"Oh... Okay," Freya replied, not sure what to say to such a thing. But she was relieved to know that he didn't care. As for Jade going after the killer, it had nothing to do with her. She didn't do it, nor knew who did, so there really was no reason to care. She was just the group's representative when talking to Muku, not their leader. She didn't even want such a position.

"Okay, we've delayed the journey for too long. We should set out now before little Elsa explodes" Muku indirectly ordered everyone to prepare to leave.

He had happened to look in Elsa's direction and noticed how the little girl was frowning. The frown was getting worse and worse the more time passed by. The little girl clearly didn't care much about anything that was happening, all she wanted was to slay some beasts. He wouldn't be surprised if she didn't even notice the whole episode with Lisa.

"Oh, finally, we're leaving" Elsa finally got out of her little world when she heard her name and setting out being mentioned.

She had long stopped paying attention to what was happening like Muku thought. Though not out of impatience. She was imagining what she would be like in the future, how strong she would be. Her frown was from when she realised that she might not be able to catch up to her sister anytime soon.

Emily had long told her about the "Half-step stage" which was in-between ranks. Which could pose a problem for her as unlike her sister and the others. She was pretty much growing up in a safe environment, which made it hard to go all out.

After all, her sense of danger was basically zero, which was a major driving force in the growth of the others. She wasn't sure if her hunger to catch up to her sister would be enough to get her through.

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Soon, everyone was ready, and they set off. Since everyone who was going already knew what to do, it didn't take long to prepare.

Surprisingly, Lisa actually joined. She had somewhat managed to gather herself up, with a little help from Freya who she gave a weird look but didn't say anything. But she still didn't dare look Muku's way, she had definitely been scarred for life by him.

Muku didn't care that she had become so scared of him, obviously. What he cared about was how she still decided to join everyone after what happened. It actually pleased him quite a bit. He thought that maybe she wasn't beyond saving, like he had assumed.

.....

Back at the ant colony...

Like before, Muku's group surveyed the area from a little distance away before finally getting close. He then kidnapped more than thirty Low Rank One ants at the edge of the colony.

There were so many ants of that rank that it seemed like he had only taken a lake's worth of water from an ocean. Not to mention the other unranked ants which were even more than that.

With the group's reduced firepower, he dared not fight too close to the ant colony. So he took the fight more than two kilometres away. Just to give themselves a headstart to run if things went south.

Whatever creature was hidden really gave him a faint uneasy feeling. While he had never dealt with a Peak Rank Two beast before. He was certain that whatever was hiding was of that rank at least. Which was the best-case scenario, really.

...

"Okay ladies, I've brought your opponents. The only help I'll give all of you is confining them within half a kilometre. Other than that, you're all on your own. Now....begin!" Muku addressed the ladies and then released the ants immediately, not giving them a chance to adjust.

While the women were nervous. Elsa, on the other hand, was different. The little girl was so excited she could blow. Muku and the others had offered her the chance to fight only one ant at a time, but she refused. She also refused a highly guarded match as she joined the stadium women in the free-for-all.

"I think your little sister might be a developing battle maniac" Hope commented as she watched Elsa excitedly fight off two ants with her silver sword and weak water abilities.

"Yeah..." Emily could only agree as she didn't know how to refute it while seeing Elsa's behaviour.