Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 62: Golden Death Ray!

After Audrey’s little episode, the battle finally went under way. Jade began slicing beasts at super speeds, only killed one or two of them since that’s all she needed. But still continued to wound some more to make it easier for the others. Interestingly enough, despite having already reached the peak and with the realised potential, she didn’t immediately climb up to Half-step(80%). Maybe a person doesn’t rank up mid battle or in a situation where they can’t afford to do it immediately. Which would be great, since if one was fighting a beast tide then suddenly froze while ranking up... wouldn’t they be killed on the spot?.

Soon enough, Chloe also found herself in the same situation, but continued punching beasts with her lightning coated fists to stun them for the others. After a relatively long battle since the peak spiders were quite agile and sensitive to danger, the girls finally managed to finish it. Audrey was breathing heavily after slicing beasts all of over the place for so long.

Emily, Layla and Hope had slightly pale faces from all the mana they used. Emily had been throwing flame spears left and right while Layla was basically doing the same with her ice. Hope had been continuously expending her mana not only to keep her poison’s potency strong enough, but also keep it away from the others who couldn’t see it.

Jade and Chloe were doing a lot better since they immediately ranked up to Half-step after the battle. Luckily, this time Muku contained their breakthrough aura so the monster wasn’t drawn over.

"Good job ladies....now that everyone has gotten to a point were killing beasts doesn’t improve your strength, do you still want to fight the spider queen?". Muku asked, he’d totally understand if they didn’t want to fight anymore after a long battle and having already reached their target.

"Although we’ve reached the peak, we still need to realise our potential after all. So maybe this battle is just what we need to step onto that path. We’ve long figured out that battle is the best way to realise potential after all". Layla spoke up quickly as of afraid someone would reject the idea. She might be a little tired but she could still fight for a while longer and felt that the pressure could be exactly what she needs to get the ball rolling on her potential realisation.

"Yeah, Layla is right" Emily supported Layla. While Hope and Audrey agreed to it. They also wanted to step onto the path to rank two after all. Jade and Chloe just looked on, they of course wanted to participate in the battle but felt it wouldn’t be as impactful for them as it would be for the others so chose to stay out of this one.

"If that’s what you want... I’ll stop suppressing it then" Muku said with a little smile. As soon as his words fell, he drew back his telekinetic force that was pressing down on the spider queen that had been wanting to come out for a while now then....

"CRRRR!!"

(A/N: honestly what sound is a giant spider supposed to make?)

The spider queen’s furious screech rang out. The girls gulped down in nervousness. Muku, Jade and Chloe immediately stepped back and started watching from a distance.

"Hey!" Emily called out, they were doing it again!...well at least this time she wasn’t the only one it was being done to do she felt a lot better about it actually.

"It’s huge!" Hope called out. The spider queen was even larger than the lizard king. The monster in front of them was at least four and a half metres in height and had a large body, it kind of looked like a large version of a tarantula. Luckily the girls had been facing spiders for a while now or they definitely wouldn’t have had the guts to fight the creature in front of them. It looked like something that crawled out of the nightmare realm for the sole purpose of terrorising people in reality. Not to mention it’s monsterous aura, they were even wondering how Muku was able to suppress such a thing so easily.

"Great!, another monster with an element!" Emily complained looking at the darkness radiating from the beast’s body.

"Hmm, it seems somewhat like my shadow element...but a lot more sinister" Layla said.

"Hey you two!, aren’t you supposed to be preparing attacks to receive!?" Hope said with an exasperated look on her face. While she was already releasing her invisible poison(Whisperless death) in the direction of the spider, these two were just standing there talking.

"Oh right!, sorry". Emily said then prepared an attack, Layla didn’t say anything but also did the same, they were both super embarrassed. Seems that caught a bit of the "Muku syndrome" of studying your enemy when you’re supposed to be fighting.

"Burning heavens...Full force!" Emily called out, this time she didn’t hold back. The sky above then turned golden due to her flames. Then the flames gathered together and concentrated on the area above the spider queen then descended on it.

Boom!

The flames, like most of Emily’s attacks, exploded on impact.

"Frozen rain!". Layla called out and more than a hundred thick spears appeared in the sky above the spider that was still enshrouded in the dust and smoke from Emily’s attack. Everyone knew the fight wouldn’t be so easily won so they didn’t wait to see it’s state.

Bang! bang! bang!

One after the other, the spears hit the area where the spider queen was at high speeds.

"Sigh, all my work wasted". Hope complained, the concentrated of her poison in the area was about to reach a high stage were the spider would definitely be affected, but it was burnt away by Emily’s attack. She and Emily’s elements didn’t make a good pair it seems. Seeing how her "whispering death" likely wouldn’t work in the situation, she decided to give up on it and try to come up with something else.

The dust and smoke finally cleared and the spider was visible again. Around it, a see through black dome could be seen, and all the attacks were stopped by it it seemed. They could see the eight cold eyes of the beast focused on them through the dome. Which made them feel a chill go down their spines, then...

Woosh!

The spider suddenly jumped forward at high speed and...

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Layla managed to raise up three ice walls in front of them and by the time the spider broke them all, she and the others had already made their get away.

"That was close, how’s it so fast!?" Emily said, the spider had really given her a scare with it’s sudden movement.

"Watch out!". Hope said as she knocked Emily out of the way and both of them fell to the ground. As soon as they fell, a black arrow passed by the area Emily was standing. If Hope hadn’t pushed her out of the way, she’d be dead with a hole through her head!.

"Focus Emily!, this thing isn’t like the weak monsters we’ve faced before!". Layla called out as she set ice barriers around them, just in case the spider had another unexpected attack to through at them.

.....

From the sidelines...

"Well, that got a bit too close for comfort didn’t it!?" Muku exclaimed, after the attack on Emily.

"Oh please, I bet you had the black arrow in your grasp from the start". Jade retorted while rolling her eyes. Though internally she was signing in relief.

"Be that as it may, that was still a dangerous situation!" Muku exclaimed.

....

"I think we need to try something else, direct attacks will probably not even reach that thing". Hope said, she still couldn’t think of anything that could work, so told the others, maybe they will be able to think of something.

"Oh, Layla, can’t you, I don’t know, get into its dome with your shadow element or something like that?". She suggested to Layla with glowing eyes.

"Then what?, get eaten alive before I can even cast a spell....hmm, I might have an idea, but you both will have to buy me some time". Layla replied, she was about to shrug off Hope’s suggestion but it made her think of something she could try.

Hope and Emily who’d finally gotten over her brush with death nodded to Layla’s plan. They didn’t know what she wanted to do, but since she was basically the most reliable one in their group, they trusted her.

"Umm, I think you should attack first, your attacks mess with mine after all" Hope said to Emily who nodded in agreement.

"I think I’ll try it now... Who knows, I might be able to get a hit in with it". Emily said to herself as she held her hands out, and created a triangle shape by holding them together.

"Hope, get ready to throw your best attack at it okay?" Emily said as sweat trickled down her face as she created her new spell. Hope was confused as to why Emily was so sure her attack would work, but nodded none the less. After all, she could feel hot energy building up around Emily and knew the next attack would definitely be something special. Not to mention Emily’s now glowing golden eyes reminiscent of scenes she’d seen in the past.

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"Golden death ray!". Emily called out and a beam with a thickness of around fifteen centimeters flew out from her hands. The spider was hit before it could even react, the black dome was actually broken through!. Luckily for it, Emily’s aim was off or she might have ended the battle then and there.But it did get an extra hole just above its right legs. The beam went through its body and came out the other side.

"CRRRR!". The spider queen cried out in pain and anger from being injured by food.

Emily immediately felt all the power in her body disappeare and she started falling to the ground. But surprisingly a smile appeared on her face as she fell.

Which was because it finally happened!

[30% of Pseudo-Legendary class potential realised.....]

Her numerous days of thinking of what she could come up with to realise her potential, paid off.