Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

"Okay," Layla immediately did what she was told. She took out the earth-brown core and handed it to Muku, who grabbed it without opening his eyes.

The purple core hand long turned into dust after being sucked dry. The moment he grabbed the earth's-brown core. It's energy started to visibly get sucked into Muku's body. Oddly enough, none of it was getting wasted. Which should have only been possible if Muku had the earth element. Which he didn't. So the correct guess would be that it was linked to the dragon in some way.

"Freya, can you ask Iris if she knows what's going on?" Audrey spoke to Freya

While she had been quick to act and Muku's body was already recovering because of it. It wasn't because she was informed of what was going on. She was just able to quickly realise that he was going through an energy deficiency from a past experience.

The experience was when she turned into a Lesser Vampire who was always hungry. Her body at that time lacked proper methods of retaining energy so she was always seeking it out from blood unconsciously. Which was something she figured out when she got the memory from the incident later on.

So, while her case wasn't as severe as Muku's. She was able to recognise it quickly and act. However, he still didn't know the specific reason why it was going on. They could all guess that the dragon likely had something to do with it, but they didn't know the "how and why". Which was where the knowledgeable Iris came in.

"She said that the dormant dragon must have sensed the beast core. So it unconsciously started sucking in the mana to recover itself. Which couldn't facilitate the recovery of both of them. So he received a backlash of losing his mana to it. With the second core, the situation should stabilise soon," Freya told the others what Iris told her.

"Wait, so what if we didn't have enough cores? Would he have died?" Hope asked a question that everyone was thinking about. The hate in her voice toward the dragon was clear as day. Which was understandable considering how important Muku was to her.

"...She said no. While it would have left him in a terrible state. It wouldn't kill him and he'd recover after a while. After a certain threshold, the dragon would be forced to wake up and stop the process. After all, its own life is linked to his. All this was a mistake. It wouldn't have happened in a normal situation. Just bad luck" Freya replied after a moment of silence when Iris was answering the question.

"Oh, but still. How can it be so careless? Big Brother saved it and this is how it repays him?" Hope was still not happy. Even if she clearly understood everything. Facts didn't matter when her brother was hurt. To her, that was the biggest fact of all.

The others didn't say anything against her. After all, they agreed. The dragon was a new element in their lives while Muku was practically their world, so there was clearly no comparison between the two.

"Where are the beast?!" It was at that tense moment that Muku's confused voice rang out.

To him, he had only closed his eyes for a few seconds to recover. Yet when he woke up. He was met with dead bodies everywhere. Reasonably, he had to ask what was up.

"Big Brother! You're okay!" Hope instantly turned to Muku and practically buried herself in his chest. Luckily, Muku had recovered somewhat from the energy the dragon didn't take after having its fill. Otherwise, he would have been knocked to the ground by the enthusiastic girl.

"Yeah... What did I miss?" Muku instantly realised that something significant he wasn't aware of had happened. It seemed he was so entranced before that he didn't even feel his body getting sucked dry.

"You don't know? Okay. It went like this..." Audrey told him after noticing that Hope, who was the primary receiver of his question, was so lost in his hug that she might not have heard him.

"Oh, so that's what happened. Well, as long as it all worked out in the end, I guess," Muku replied neutrally. While it surprised him a bit after being told about what had happened.

He took it for granted for obvious reasons. He the one who went through it, didn't feel anything. And he was okay when he came to. So, to him, it practically didn't happen. There was no reason to think too deeply about something like that.

"So... Do you feel any changes on you?" Chloe suddenly chimed in. Her gaze focused on Muku like she was seeing something fascinating. Which wasn't too different from how the others were looking at him.

"Hhm, I'm not sure. I hadn't gotten used to my increase in strength yet, so I'm not sure if there's an increase in that from what I got after reaching R3. I do feel a lot lighter, though, which I definitely didn't feel after ranking up" Muku ignored their odd gazes, thinking that it was likely due to him being shirtless. His shirt had long been burnt off by the heat from the event before.

As for his pants?. Obviously, like any good story, that makes perfect sense. They were still there, a bit tattered and torn here and there. However, they were still covering everything that mattered well.

"Really? Is there nothing else?" Chloe pressed on.

"You know, this would all go a lot faster if you just pointed out what you mean to me", Muku, who had instantly realised that there was something else she was trying to bring his attention to, chose the quickest way to get it done. Which was to get her to tell him whatever she was talking about.

"Can't you just go by the script like any normal person would? Shouldn't you start observing yourself closely until you realise what she's talking about?" Jade interjected while rolling her eyes.

It always rubbed her the wrong way when Muku did something like that. They'd be expecting a certain kind of show, only for him to change the script.

"Geez, you're the ones that are bothered by whatever you're talking about. So why are you getting angry when you aren't going straight to the point?! Does that seem reasonable to you?" Muku snapped back.

"They are talking about your long hair, increased height and bigger muscles. You probably got a little more handsome as well" Before the situation between Muku and Jade could develop into a fight, Jade would definitely regret it soon after. Hope intervened without unsticking herself from Muku.

Like a little pervert, she was even sniffing his body ever so slightly. She thought she was being discreet about it and no one would notice. However, she had overlooked the fact that she was surrounded by superhumans. So her subtle actions were quite loud to their enhanced senses.

They just chose to not embarrass her by saying anything. Well, Jade wanted to, but Emily stopped her. Freya was so embarrassed by what Hope was doing that one might even think that she was the one doing it.

"What do you all...Oh! When did this happen?!" Muku replied while creating a silver mirror in front of him. While he couldn't create glass, he could create a metal shiny enough to mimic it. He was shocked by what he saw.

While it still looked like him for the most part. His height had increased by at least twenty centimetres. He was no longer as lean as before, having gained a significant amount of muscle. Then there was his once short hair he had been grooming every chance he got.

The girls had been hounding him about it every time it got a little longer to cut it. Saying that their leader shouldn't look unkempt or something like that.

Now, however, it had gotten so long that it could reach his back. With his refined facial features. The hair just made sense. Audrey was even drooling slightly while looking at him. Desire radiating out of her eyes.

She even felt a little dampness in between her legs. Luckily for her, the others were focused on other things, or she would have been in for a rather embarrassing time. Also, the smell of smoke, blood and whatnot covered the whole area. Jade wasn't able to pick up the special scent she was releasing.

She wasn't sure what was going on with her. While Muku has always looked great to her, she had never been so crazy about him. She could vaguely tell that if she was alone with Muku at that moment. She would have definitely pounced on him.

Maybe the ocean of sexual desires she had been ignoring for thirty years was finally getting to her. She wasn't sure how long she could hold on. Especially when the one she desired most was always in her line of sight. Smiling at her from the bottom of the heart. Almost like he was inviting her to do something.

"We only noticed it after you woke up. So it's safe to assume that it happened during the time we weren't looking. As for the reason..." Chloe replied to him while still blatantly checking him out. Which again, most of the others were doing as well. She trailed off at the end as she shifted her focus from Muku to Freya.

Her meaning is obvious. She was pretty much asking Iris to tell them what was going on.

"She said, "I'm not your Ghoogle!" Freya replied with a statement from Iris that left everyone dumbstruck.