Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

"No! Take me! I'm sure my body would be more to your liking than a man" Hope shouted while stepping in front of Muku.

"No! Me!" Then Chloe stepped in front of her.

Then Layla in front of her, then Audrey after that. Emily followed after that. She had wanted to step in sooner, even before Muku spoke, but everything happened too quickly for her to keep up.

The group ended up making a queue of people screaming about why they should be the ones getting possessed over the others. It was a rather comical scene that the Plant Lady couldn't help but enjoy.

Suddenly everyone paused and looked in the same direction. There, Jade and Elsa stood while silently looking on. The two showed no sign of stepping up like the others before them.

"What?" Jade was prompted to speak by the stares.

"Why didn't you two step up?" Emily asked in a slightly annoyed voice. The two had "betrayed" her before and now were just looking as if she was campaigning to get possessed.

"Simple really. I don't want to get possessed. Not to mention that you all seem very eager to get possessed anyway. So, I wouldn't want to get in your way" Jade spoke calmly as if she was saying the most logical thing ever.

Though honestly, she was. What sane person would campaign to get possessed? She was willing to fight it out with the Plant Lady if it came to that, even if it was hopeless. However, she wasn't willing to get possessed. Being in control of her body was one of her favourite things, so... It was out of her hands, really.

Jade's words made everyone speechless. The Plant Lady couldn't control herself as she started laughing amusedly. She liked the group of brats more and more. They were such an interesting and funny group.

"Umm, I'm already possessed by a water fairy, so... It wouldn't make sense for me to get possessed again when you all are free right?" Just when the group was trying to recover from Jade's words. Elsa said her reason and they were stunned again.

It was for the same reason they got stunned by Jade's reasoning. They couldn't argue against it since it sounded logical. Even if Elsa spoke in a way that made it seem like her having a water fairy instead of them was a great sacrifice.

Which wasn't true at all, since it was nothing but beneficial to her. It did make sense for her to say that she couldn't house another being in her body.

However, that wasn't the point. What Emily cared about was whether they'd have her back or not. Which they clearly didn't. To even give reasonable excuses as to why they'd let her get possessed... The nerve of the two!

"You two are really determined to go against me in recent history aren't you?" Emily spoke with a dark expression while looking at her best friend and little sister.

She was even worried that they'd actively sacrifice her if the situation required it. After all, she couldn't understand their recent behaviour. Of course, she was just overthinking it. She had gotten used to them being always behind her, supporting her. So the sudden change caught her off guard.

"Wait... Elsa, what do you mean by fairy?" Muku interrupted Emily's rant as she was going off-topic. He caught something from Elsa's statement that piqued his interest.

He had heard the voice say fairy before, but he thought that he might have heard wrong. After all, the way the Plant Lady looked before the transformation had nothing to do with a fairy. Also how her humanoid form didn't have fairy wings like Elsa's Water Fairy made it hard to believe.

So hearing Elsa say it so confidently, he had to ask. As for what he'd do after gaining the information, he wasn't sure yet. He just thought it might be useful in some way.

"Yeah... She's a fairy. Can't you all sense it in her aura?" Elsa replied, a little confused as to why he'd ask such an obvious thing. Though she quickly realised that it might have been an exclusive ability to her she gained from her fairy.

She could tell that it was a fairy that had invaded Freya's body. Which she realised soon after calming down. It was also part of the reason why she was so calm in the current situation. That was because she knew something about fairies that inhabited people's bodies. Which gave her the confidence to be calm.

"Fufufu... While I'd like to know where you're going to go with your story. I can't help but feel like you're all starting to go off course. It's like I'm getting invisible to you." The Plant Lady interrupted. She couldn't stay quiet anymore.

"Anyway, let me get to the point. While I feel honoured that you all are willing to offer yourselves to me. Unfortunately, only this body can house me. The owner's neutral element barely lets me enter. The ideal host would have been a Plant-type, sadly... The point is, you all have specific elements, so only fairies of such elements can inhabit your bodies" The Plant Lady continued speaking, educating them a bit.

"Now let me get to the point. From now on, you all are under my command. You do whatever I tell you with no questions asked. That way, we can all be happy and no one has to die. I promise that I won't treat you too badly. I like how you all are united... Mostly anyway. Oh, and don't call me Plant Lady, it sounds tacky, Fairy Lady would have been better. However, just call me Lady Iris instead" The Plant Lady... Or Iris rather, quickly moved to her demands.

She spoke in a tone that didn't leave room for discussion. In her head, it really wasn't something that required discussion as little Rank Twos and ones like them should feel honoured to serve someone as great as she was.

However, the expressions of everyone present darkened as soon as they heard her words. It was the worst-case scenario they didn't want to occur. What would be the point of living if they had to spend their days as someone else's slaves?

"Can't we discuss it? Such an arrangement seems a bit excessive. I'm sure someone of your status wouldn't want weak servants like us right? We can barely go outside without getting killed" Muku hardened his face and tried to negotiate.

If he was alone, he would have immediately fought her with everything he had. Even if he died soon after. He wouldn't mind. Living as someone's slave wasn't something he was willing to do, period.

However, like always, he had to consider the girls. He didn't want them to die. They mattered more to him than his pride. His care for them couldn't be called a drawback though. After all, that's just how caring for someone worked. Being considerate of them is a must.

Which was why he asked for an alternative from Iris. Maybe they'd be lucky and there was something she wanted instead of enslaving them.

"Well, there is one thing..." Iris spoke with her hand on her chin, seemingly in thought. Considering how pretty Freya was, the action looked quite cute. Unfortunately, Muku wasn't in the mood to enjoy it.

"Yes! Please! What is it?!" Muku asked, practically shouting. That's how desperate he was.

"Woah! No need to be so loud. I'm still speaking... Anyway, if you can get me, let's say, a hundred Rank Three beast cores or twenty-five Rank Four cores, I'm willing to let you go free" Iris first shut down Muku's rashness, then told them what she wanted.

Her request was so absurd for the current them that they were left speechless. They couldn't even kill a peak Half-step R3 beast yet. So, going after a legit R3 or even a R4 was out of the picture. Hell, they didn't think that their current world even had R4s yet!

She was clearly setting them up to fail. They could easily tell that she had no plan to let them go. Besides, with her strength wouldn't she be able to do that herself if she wanted to?

"Hehe" Suddenly, out of nowhere Elsa let out a little laugh. It was the laugh one lets out when they try to stop themselves from laughing but fail.

"What are you laughing at brat?" Iris immediately spoke while looking at Elsa with narrowed eyes. Her aura even suggested that if Elsa said something she didn't like, she would attack.

"No! Please, she's just a little girl who doesn't know any better. Just ignore her" Emily immediately stepped up in front of Elsa as she tried to defend her sister. Even if they were having some issues recently, that wouldn't stop her from protecting Elsa.

As Emily spoke, Jade came beside her. Though, unlike Emily's submissive attitude, Jade seemed like she was ready to throw hands the moment Iris tried something against Elsa.

Seeing this, Emily and the others were alarmed and she was immediately dragged back behind the others. The girl really didn't know the difference between heaven and earth. Was she trying to get herself killed?! While casually bringing them along with her??

"Okay, I'll forgive her this once. Make sure it doesn't happen again" Iris spoke in her superior tone.

While it wasn't nice to hear. They all breathed a sigh of relief knowing that she wasn't going to attack.

"Thank you!" Emily immediately thanked her.

"There's no need for that sis. She isn't what she seems. It's just her aura that's left, otherwise all her strength is basically gone" Elsa dropped a bomb that shocked everyone in the room.

The tension immediately reached its highest peak. The room was silent as Iris and Muku's group stared down at each other.

The next step unknown...