Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

A few days later...

So, clearing the first trial took Muku a lot more time than he thought. The floors kept on getting more and more absurd, the more he cleared.

The sixth floor had fifty killer dogs. The fifth had a hundred. Both floors required him to run all over the place before he managed to clear them. If he didn't have access to the floors he had already cleared. He would have been screwed for real.

Fortunately, the physical improvements from all the killer dogs he killed were worth it. He was on par with them in strength by the time he was half done with the fifth floor.

Then came the fourth floor. Things got switched up again. Mrs C really knew how to keep him on his toes.

Just when he starts to get comfortable with the system. She changed it every time. And that was the case with the fourth floor. Instead of adding more killer dogs. Which would have made it rather hard for them to even properly fight.

She placed five killer dogs on the floor. Of course, they weren't the same old killer dogs he had gotten used to. They were a new breed. They were five Psuedo-R2 killer dogs.

Though calling them that didn't seem very accurate. It would be more appropriate to call them cynocephali.

Their bodies didn't just look like monstrous dogs. They now looked a lot more terrifying than that. They stood on two legs and had five fingers like humans with beastly claws, of course.

They stood around two metres tall. With large dog heads on their shoulders. The intelligence that radiated from their eyes also improved a lot for their predecessors.

The moment he saw them. Muku knew he was screwed. Even if his strength was also in the Psuedo-R2 range by that point.

His strength was around 10% Psuedo-R2 at most. Theirs, from their aura, was at least 30%. And again, there were five of them. So yeah, he was definitely screwed.

Especially when Mrs C mentioned something which almost made him choke on his saliva. The forms he was seeing were actually R5 forms the species will only gain access to at, well, rank five.

Which meant that she had personally tweaked them to make life harder for Muku. Of course, she denied such claims by saying that she was just a host.

However, who would believe such a thing? Before he could complain about it, she enticed him with her words. She told him how fighting them was to his benefit. This was because it would give him insight into how R5s fight. Which would definitely be useful in the future.

Muku wanted to disagree. However, he couldn't. What she said made sense, after all. So, he could only begrudgingly agree.

In normal cases, he would make himself feel better by plotting his revenge. However, something told him that such ideas would be pointless. So, he just sucked it up and continued pushing forward.

And so, with axe in hand. The young man charged forth! The time for tricks was gone. Some battles could only be handled directly!

Speaking of the axe. It definitely wasn't the same as the ones at the school. It just looked like them. It was way too strong to be made from the same materials as the ones from before.

Which he was thankful for. At least Mrs C wasn't completely unreasonable. If she was, the axe would have been broken a long time ago. Yet there it was, still as strong as ever. Bloody but strong.

Anyway, the adrenaline-driven Muku made his way toward the five cynocephali. They did the same.

Soon, their dance of death began. Muku swung, kicked and punched. The cynocephali snapped and clawed.

With his experience and martial arts background. Muku managed to effectively deal with the humanoid creatures.

He didn't manage to grasp the advantage or anything like that. However, he did manage to stop the other side from grasping it as well. He would weave in between them and use their numbers against them.

Both parties suffered losses and procured gains. Within the first few minutes. Everyone involved was pretty much a bloody mess. Muku was the most bloody one for obvious reasons. He had been fighting for a long time, after all. His whole body was covered with claw marks of varying severity.

However, all that was ignored by him. All he cared about was enjoying the battle. That's right, he was enjoying the battle. He was finally starting to understand why Jade sometimes goes crazy when fighting.

If she saw him now. She would probably have a smug expression on her face while saying "I told you so". After that, she'd probably start feeling jealous and end up jumping into the battle. Which would, of course,, lead to an argument with Muku.

Bang!

"Argh!" Muku screamed in pain as he was kicked away.

He seemed to have lost focus for a second while thinking about Jade. Which obviously cost him. He wasn't in a battle in which he could afford to get distracted after all.

Fortunately, he managed to collect himself just in time. He spun midair and landed on his feet. He didn't lose his axe like before. Like they say, "Once bitten, twice shy"...

"Cough! Cough! I totally deserved that. I shouldn't have disrespected you all by getting distracted. Don't worry, it won't happen again" Muku spoke.

His words were directed at the cynocephali. The five beasts looked at him confusedly for a moment. They couldn't understand what the hell he was saying.

While they looked like R5s, they weren't legit R5s after all. They also weren't special cases like Raya, who was intelligent from Rank One.

Well, it's not like they had to know what he said. All they needed to do was kill him and eat his flesh. Which was taking a lot more time and effort than they thought it would.

This confused them a lot. He was clearly weaker than them. Yet he still managed to injure them just as much as they were injuring him. The worst part was how he seemed to have already been injured when they first began fighting.

It was all because of the weird movements he did. The way he managed to skip in between them almost made it seem like he was a slippery snake.

With frustration from being unable to kill Muku even after such a long battle. The cynocephali charged at him again. Their anger was evident in their barks as they approached.

Another round of slashing and scratching began. However, the beasts noticed that Muku was getting less and less injured by them. Which confused them.

They didn't know that he was getting more and more familiar with how they attacked. Unlike humans with all their techniques and whatnot. Beasts had simple straightforward attack patterns.

Although the attack patterns were simple and straightforward. They were still very effective and dangerous. Which Muku's bloody body could attest to.

However, the greatest talent humans have has always been adapting. Humans can pretty much adapt to anything after a while. As long as it was something reasonable.

And the attack patterns of the cynocephali happen to fall into the adaptable category. So, Muku, an outstanding member of the human race managed to adapt after a while...

Soon enough, he had pretty much gone into ultra-instinct mode. He would dodge every move made by the beasts without even looking.

A while later, the first cynocephalus fell to his axe. Its fall not only weakened the other cynocephali's resolve, but it also improved Muku's strength by a bit.

While it wasn't a lot. It was significant enough to lead to the quick fall of two more cynocephali. Like the first one. They had their throats cut open by Muku's axe.

The remaining two immediately went into a panic. They were heavily wounded and their teammates had been killed. So, the obvious thing was to make a break for it, right?

However, there was a slight pause before the decision to run was made in their heads. That was enough for Muku to kill one of them. The other one instantly made a break for it. It was so scared it ran on all fours with its tail tucked between its legs.

It seemed that it never heard of the golden rule of battle... Never turn your back on an enemy.

"Howl!"

Bang!

The cynocephalus howled in pain and lost its balance. It then slammed hard into the wall in front of it.

Muku had made it okay for its blunder. He threw his axe at it. Which, by the combined force of luck and experience, hit the beast right on the back of the leg.

Which was a devastating attack that immediately took it off its feet due to its fast speed.

Muku didn't waste time coming after it. He was already holding two stakes in hand as he ran forth.

Before the beast could get up. He was already in the air above it. It raised its head as it tried to get up. Which pretty much set it up for some pain.

Muku stabbed the two stakes which had been fixed directly into the beast's eyes. Stabbing the eyes was always a sure-kill move as long as you got it right.

Even if you don't manage to directly kill your target. You'll at least take out their vision. So, it was a guaranteed success no matter which of the two it was.

Fortunately for Muku. He managed to stab deep and hard enough that he killed the beast on the spot.

He immediately got the feedback from its death. Which led him to directly slump down on the beast's back. Which didn't have spikes like its predecessor.

"Another floor conquered..." Muku spoke in a tired voice before falling asleep on the spot.

He was drained both physically and mentally...