Downstairs.....
"What's wrong? Where are you going? How is your aura so strong without even reaching Rank Two yet!?" Jade asked one question after the other after seeing Muku walk downstairs with Audrey behind him.
"Follow , and you'll see" Muku said that one statent and continued walking to the front door. Not needing any more convincing, Jade got up and followed along, the rest did the sa as well. They felt sothing significant was about to happen and wanted to be around when it did.
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"Is this necessary?" Jade couldn't help but ask after they walked close to a kilotre away from the mansion.
"Who knows, but I'm getting more and more interested in what requires us to walk this far away" Emily spoke beside her, seemingly unfazed by walking so far.
"This should be far enough right?" Muku asked Audrey, which surprised the others. They didn't know that Audrey was the one who advised Muku to go a distance away from the mansion if he wanted to break through as they walked downstairs. She had a hunch that his breakthrough wasn't going to be a quiet affair.
"Okay, I'll do it here then," Muku said after receiving her confirmation. He then closed his eyes while holding his hands together in front of him. The others just looked on curiously wondering what he was doing.
That's when his aura exploded, not because of breaking through, but because he had intentionally let it loose. Of everyone they'd ever t, only Jade's Beast Aura was visible. And now Muku seed to have joined that small list, though with mana instead of aura.
His mana was slowly becoming visible in front of everyone, it looked like a grey mass of energy swirling around him. It was so dense and intense that Emily had to protect Elsa with her mana or she might have been killed on the spot by just Muku's act of releasing his mana. Although it wasn't as strong as a Rank Two it was off by just a little bit, which showed how much of a monster he was.
He then started to slowly open his hands. There seemingly was a suction force between them. As his mana was getting pulled in nonstop. It got to a point where all the mana that surrounded him before was in between his arms that had been pulled back as far as he could, creating a chaotic scene. The power radiating from the condensing mana had long reached Low Rank Two strength and hadn't stopped yet. That's when Muku's right hand made a grabbing motion.
BOOM!
His aura imdiately exploded and he successfully broke through to rank two. Audrey hurriedly tried to suppress his aura so as not to attract attention. Surprisingly, she failed to do so, her strength was not enough, far from it. Imdiately Chloe, Hope and Layla joined in. Emily had to use everything she had to protect Elsa, she was even backing away from Muku while holding Elsa's hand to reduce the pressure on herself. Jade's control was in total disarray at the mont, so she couldn't help.
Luckily, Audrey and the other three were just enough to suppress Muku's aura. Though it wasn't just his aura, it was combined with the aura of whatever he had created and was holding in his hand. Muku happened to open his eyes in the mont and noticed his group in an unfavourable condition. In panic, he swang whatever he was holding before it completely ford to the side.
Whoosh! BOOM!
A concentrated energy wave flew off in that direction, creating a long ditch on the ground that stretched a distance away. Then it exploded with intensity greater than Chloe's concentrated lighting attack. Which scared away any beasts that were close by, even the few Rank Twos. At this point, Muku's hand was no longer holding anything, and the pressure on the girls had reduced by half, which was manageable. Soon after Muku gained control of his aura and cald it down.
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At the University.....
"What was that?" Sarah asked, though not targeting anyone in particular. At this mont they were having a eting on whether they should trust Muku's group and also start eating beast at. Although Jack had long said that there was no need to be suspicious of them since they'd gain nothing from trucking them. But still, they had to vote on it.
"I don't know," Jack said with a neutral expression. He had an idea that it was likely related to a certain group of people.
"Should we send soone to go check it out?" Sarah asked.
"Nope, it's completely none of our business" Jack refused imdiately. Like hell, he'd step anywhere that chaotic again. From the noise, he could tell that it was even more chaotic than last ti. Although he'd improved and was now at 30% potential realisation, he felt like an ant that needed to stay away from troubleso situations lest it gets stumped to death by mistake.
"Okay, let's continue with the eting then" Sarah didn't push any further since no matter what was happening outside. They were safe as long as they stayed within the barrier. And so like that, the eting continued, albeit no one was as focused as before.
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At the North, the sleeping wolf opened its eyes a bit, looked in a certain direction then closed them again. Even if what it sensed seed quite outstanding for a Rank Two, it was still an ant in front of it so there was no reason to be bothered by it.
The sa happened in the South, East and West. All these places had Rank Three overlords who sensed Muku's breakthrough but were too lazy to bother with it. After all, how could Low Rank Two girls use their hollow mana barriers to block the senses of a Rank Three?
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Sowhere in the city in an underground cave.....
Familiar intelligent yellow eyes opened up. They looked in a certain direction and a knowing look flashed in them before going back to sleep. After all, the owner of the eyes was no longer the overlord of the city that could go wherever it wanted. For now, it had to improve itself and reclaim its throne, its curiosity had to be put on hold for now.
Although the eyes were still the sa. The body was completely unrecognisable. How could it not be? It was in a black cocoon going through a tamorphosis after all.
...
Back at the scene of the cri.
"Big Brother, what was that you were holding?" Hope asked Muku curiously after everything cald down. The others listened on.
"A mithril sword, though unfinished. Luckily, the unfinished product was good enough for to break through," Muku replied while massaging his head; creating mithril was hard enough and needed a lot of concentration. Shaping it into a sword was even harder. So taking a ntal toll when getting done for the first ti was understandable. On the positive side, his eyes were now back to normal after ranking up, not to ntion ranking up itself is already good news.
"Oh, what a strong sword", Hope complinted while looking at the one-tre wide and two-tre deep ditch that stretched for at least fifty tres created by the sword. She, along with the others, couldn't help but wonder what the finished product would be like. Especially now that he had more power at his disposal.
"You know it's really not fair that you keep on getting one power-up after the other. While we have the sa old moves" Jade imdiately complained. She completely forgets about how her Beast Aura can basically do anything under the right conditions.
"Tsk, whatever, let's go back" Muku was in too good a mood to argue with her, so they just shrugged her off. Now all the old mbers of the team were Rank Two!, how could he not be happy?. They were a lot safer than most people now. He was also certain that they were the strongest team in the apocalypse right then. As for why he wasn't completely sure, it's because you can never be too sure of anything in the world.
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Back at the mansion.....
"Now that we're all Rank Two, it's ti to hunt" Muku spoke as they gathered in the dining room. It had been a while since they specifically hunted for beasts so he was rather excited.
"But don't you have to recover first?" Hope asked in a worried tone.
"Oh, that! Don't worry, it seems ranking up fixed right up. I feel good as new, if not better than that" Muku replied to her and even flexed his muscles to show her how fine he was. To which Hope giggled thinking of how childish he was, but she wasn't worried anymore.
"Any idea on where we can go for unranked beasts?" Emily asked, still worried about Elsa's situation.
"I've got just the place actually!" Muku imdiately replied.
"You all rember how the beasts got stronger the deeper into the city we got, right? If the situation hasn't changed much, then the further out we go, we should find so. We can go back in the direction of a familiar place" Before anyone could ask, he had already continued speaking.
"You don't an..." Emily was about to na a familiar place before she was interrupted.
"Yup. The stadium?. We can even check on how the people there are doing at the sa ti." Muku reviewed the place he ant, not even waiting for Emily to finish.
"What about today...what the hell!?" Since it was still early in the day, Jade wanted to ask what they'd be doing with the rest of the day. Since they usually started long journeys early in the morning, they wouldn't go that day. But as she was speaking, it started raining outside. The reason why she was surprised was because it was Spring and the sky had been clear when they went out before.
"Seems we can only stay inside and ditate" Muku said while looking toward the window. He was also surprised by the sudden rain, as was everyone else.
"So the seasons are also ssed up now?" Chloe spoke in a low voice but everyone heard her and thought the sa.
Even more surprising was how the rain went on to rain for the rest of the day. Then continued into the night nonstop. Even when everyone went to sleep it was still raining...
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