Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

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The whole world went silent for a split second when the number "1" was called out. Everyone held their breaths. Then...

BOOM!

The first thing which people expected to occur didn't occur. Everyone expected to be hit by an earthquake like last time. However, that's not what happened.

They were hit by a strong gravitational pull first. Many fell to the ground. Luckily mana had strengthened everyone's bodies. Even those with Brittle Bone Disease had been cured. Otherwise many would have had their bones broken from the sudden increase of the world's gravity.

It wasn't even a 2× increase, but a 4× instead. Which was the limit the normal person in the apocalyptic world could take. However, everyone will have to go through an adjustment period, which will likely get some people killed.

The gravity change was so sudden the mansion almost fell from the sky. Muku had gotten too comfortable while focusing on the outside. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough.

Soon after the gravity fiasco, the much-awaited earthquake came. It was at least five times stronger than the last one. The world increased in size again. Its diameter increased so much that it became one-fifth of Jupiter from the initial one-eleventh.

Which meant more travelling for everyone. However, that wasn't really that important at that time. As the World was still shaking, a dense wave of mana flooded the whole planet. Which meant one thing... The portals were at work again.

The old portals that were numerous in every city had actually all disappeared at some point. Which was why no one had seen them for a while.

However, that wasn't as good as one might think. Which was because in their place. Large red-coloured portals that practically reached the skies appeared. Which meant the larger and more dangerous creatures were finally able to come through. No one was prepared for them since they appeared with the evolution.

Fortunately, the large portals were only a tenth of the smaller portals from before. They were also placed in areas as far away from large human populations as possible.

Which would give people a little breathing room... Well, that would have been the case if hordes upon hordes of beasts didn't exit the portals. Despite being way less in number. The portals actually spat out a lot more beats than the smaller portals from before. The world would have long been flooded if it didn't increase in size.

The first waves ranged from unranked beasts which came out for the portals running. They were trying their best to run away from the beasts behind them. Most failed and were killed off accidentally or intentionally.

Those that made it didn't stop until they were completely out of sight. Which had become easier after the evolution. This was because plants all over the world had been boosted in growth and size.

Most of the world's land had become forest. Nature had long wiped out most of the inventions of men. Which, honestly should have been done long before...

Anyway, after the unranked beasts came rank ones, twos and threes. Surprisingly, they were all doing the same as the unranked beasts did.

Even the R3s that were the dominators of the world just a few minutes before were running for their lives. Which would have horrified Muku's group if they were there to see what was going on.

They had barely stepped into R3. Yet R3s were now practically obsolete. That's just how unforgiving the apocalyptic world was.

Following behind the terrified R3s were... Behemoths. That's the only word fit to be used in the situation. Creatures that had an average height of fifty metres couldn't be addressed with any other term. Well, they could, but Behemoths was simply perfect.

The R4s had finally made their appearance. Their aura alone was enough to dispel any domain from R3s without even doing anything.

The difference between R3s and R4s wasn't simply one rank. Going from R3 to R4 was like being reborn. The very energy in the bodies of R3s and R4s was different. No matter how strong a R3 was, it could never step up to an R4.

This was because R4s had what was called Advanced Mana. That's right, going from R3 to R4 wasn't just ranking up. It was evolving. The second significant evolution a creature goes through.

The first one was the subtle evolution one goes through when they are killing unranked beasts. That's subtle numbness all over the body. Which was actually the body getting primed for the use of mana.

The evolution to R4, however, wasn't as subtle or easy. Which many will find out soon enough. The point of the matter was that base mana couldn't do anything to Advanced Mana. It was like hitting a rock with an egg. There's no chance the egg will win the exchange by breaking the rock. Even a boiled egg cannot break a real rock.

Which made the actions of the R3s quite understandable. Anyone with even half a brain would do the same.

There was a twist in the script, however... Even the R4s looked nervous. What would make such godlike creatures nervous?

The answer was simple actually. R5s had also come to join the party. Soon after all the R4s in a certain portal had gone through. One R5 walked through.

The moment it did. The world around it paused. All the beasts that hadn't been able to flee into the distance stopped in their track. Some were so scared they couldn't even breathe.

"So... This is The Blue Planet from Legends, huh? It doesn't seem very impressive to me" The beast spoke. Muku would have found the language familiar if he had been present.

It was the same language Iris and the four beasts spoke before. The weird language that everyone understood without having heard anything like it before. He had even tried to ask Iris about it before.

However, like always she held out on the information. She didn't even give a reason for not wanting to say. She just stayed silent while looking at him until he gave up.

Anyway, that didn't matter at the moment. What mattered was the appearance of the R5. Its literal physical appearance.

One would think that it would be a creature even bigger than an R4 right?... Wrong!

It was actually human-sized! It also had two legs and two hands like a human. In fact, it looked exactly like one of the creatures in human mythology. One of the most hated creatures as well.

Green skin, around four feet in height, an ugly face, a long nose, and an evil and cunning glint in its eyes. That's right, it was a damn goblin!

However, unlike in all the stories. It clearly wasn't a weak creature dominated by everyone. It was the one dominating everyone. It also didn't seem to be lustful at all...

Well, then again, it wasn't really a typical goblin. It was actually the humanoid form of some R5 beast. As for why it looked like that. It was a story for another day...

"Hhm? Why aren't you all moving? Don't you want to go out into the world and explore? Come on, move it along. You're blocking my sight" The goblin spoke after noticing the frozen beasts.

However, instead of moving after hearing its words. Despite understanding it perfectly. None of the beasts moved. They started shaking in fear even more intensely than before.

"What? Are you defying me? I'll kill all of you where you stand if you don't move right now!" The goblin spoke threateningly.

The beasts were thrown even deeper into the pits of fear. One R4 couldn't take the pressure any more, so it moved. It was a fifty-metre-tall leopard that was definitely the nightmare of many.

Despite its size. It was super fast. Unlike a normal leopard that would need around 13 minutes to run 100 kilometres if it was fifty meters tall.

That beast leopard wasn't normal. It wasn't just fifty metres tall. It was also a rank four. For that reason, it was infinitely better. Which gave it the ability to run one hundred kilometres within thirty freaking seconds!

However, that was all nothing in front of the R5 goblin. Before the leopard could even fully raise its leg, it was dead. The head had been long blown off. Within the first millisecond, it was dead.

That was to say, the goblin was at least one thousand times faster than a second. Which was a horrifying thought.

Bang!

The leopard's headless body hit the ground with a loud sound.

"Hehe, except for this one," The goblin spoke while sitting on top of the leopard's giant back. It was holding some brain matter in its hand. Feasting gleefully as it spoke.

Seeing its actions. Instead of continuing to stay still. The other beasts instantly made a break for it. Which should have been a bad move after the first one to move was killed right?

Not really, they were just repeating a common event. The goblin had such a thing many times before. So, they were very familiar with it.

However, it was unpredictable. Sometimes it would spare the first one to move and kill a tenth of those who stayed still. At other times, like then, it would kill the first one to move only.

Which left the beast not knowing what to do. If it wasn't because of the predetermined order of going through the portals. The stronger beasts would have definitely been the first ones to go through.

However, life was a big. Things seldomly went the way you wanted them to. Fortunately for the beasts, they no longer had to deal with the goblin anymore.

Unless maybe they were unlucky enough to meet it again someday...

And fortunately for the world, it appeared that only one R5 would appear from a single portal. Otherwise, everyone would have been cooked.

"How I love this game. Their fear is always very fragrant. I do wonder what the fear from humans smells like though..." The goblin spoke to itself as it looked on while the beasts ran away with their tails in between their legs.

It couldn't wait to step into the world and terrorise humans. Only if there weren't those dumb rules which stopped it from attacking bases or carrying out large massacres...

If not for that. Oceans of blood would have run free wherever it went...