Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 80: Jade Vs Emily

"Big brother, who do you think will win?" Hope asked Muku after shamelessly pushing her chair closer to his.

"Hmm, I’m not sure. Jade hasn’t exactly gone all out for a while, so I’m not sure what she’s capable of. Then there’s Emily and her new spell. Not only is it absurdly strong, but she seemed to have cast it instantaneously last time. So it really could go either way. But if I had to choose, I’d say Emily will win; Jade is too arrogant for her own good; this will be a good lesson if she loses; it would stop her head from growing any larger." Muku replied, expressing his thoughts while the others listened. Elsa was inwardly happy that he thought her sister would win.

"Then I’ll also bet on Emily then! Ow!" Hope replied. Muku immediately flicked her forehead prompting a little cry of pain.

"We don’t bet on friends...at least when they are fighting other friends" Muku rebuked her.

"Okay, I won’t try it again" Hope replied while poking her tongue out of her mouth cutely.

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"Okay, like before, I’ll count down from there then the battle will begin. Remember, although I can probably intervene before real damage is done, I think it will be best if you don’t lose yourself in the moment. There’s always a chance that something could go wrong" Audrey spoke while standing in-between Jade and Emily. She spoke the last part while looking at Jade, who immediately put on a wronged face; why did nobody have any faith in her? But knowing that she brought it on herself by the way she behaved, she didn’t say anything to defend herself.

"Since you both understand, I won’t delay anymore. 3...2...1..Fight!" As soon as she said the last word, Audrey immediately disappeared.

Whoosh!

Jade immediately turned catgirl and used her "High Quick". This time it was so intense even the beast aura she used to power herself up internally was now outwardly visible. She left a green trail as she ran forward. A smirk immediately appeared on her face as she inched closer to Emily who seemed to not have reacted yet when...

Boom!

Golden flames exploded from the ground around Emily and spread outward in every direction. Jade came to a quick stop and immediately backtracked. She could feel the heat of the raging flames while still a few metres away from them so there was no way she’d want to be touched by them.

"Damn! Emily, do you want to roast me or something!" Jade shouted angrily from a distance.

"Don’t worry, I’ve got perfect control over it. It would only leave you naked and bald; other than that, you’ll be fine!" Emily shouted back, her response almost making Jade spit out a mouthful of blood from anger. How’s that any better!?, wasn’t it actually even worse!?.

"So this is how you want to play it huh?" Jade called out to Emily again, her eyes full of anger. She felt so powerless right then, this was the weakness of being a close combat fight.

"Just give up! or do you want me to turn the whole battleground into a sea of flames?" Emily called out again with a smile on her face. She was enjoying Jade, this brat; didn’t she remember that their class were the same rank? And she had realised more potential; how could Jade think she’d win?

"Never! Earth Spikes!" Jade refused to give up and cast her green earth spikes spell. She couldn’t see nor sense Emily, who was hidden by the golden flames properly, so she just randomly attacked wherever she thought Emily was. It seems Emily’s spell dispersed her presence, making it seem like she was everywhere with the flames.

"Haha, you missed!. I’m giving you a few more seconds to surrender, or I’m going to do it the hard way!" Emily’s excited voice was heard again from the flames. Clearly, Jade’s attacks hadn’t hit the target.

"This really pisses me off!. I guess I’ll have to try it even though it’s still a prototype," Jade spoke to herself. Then beast aura exploded out of her body and completely covered her up.

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"I didn’t know that Emily was so mean!" Audrey exclaimed with her hand on her mouth as she watched the battle with the others.

"Well, I think Jade deserves it," Muku said with a satisfied smile on his face. Schadenfreude was all he felt right then while looking at Jade’s unfavourable situation.

"I can’t help but feel like you’re enjoying this too much. You like watching girls fight?" Chloe said why looking at Muku with an accusatory gaze.

"You’re overthinking it, cough, look, seems like Jade is about to try something out" Muku looked away from Chloe as he spoke. He had been caught red-handed. But his diversion worked as everyone refocused on the battle, on Jade to be more specific. Or at least the area she was in. Like Emily, she was now also hidden, which made the battle quite annoying to watch when you couldn’t even see the fighters.

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"Rooooar!!!". A beastly roar came from within Jade’s beast aura. It started getting denser and denser until it matched Emily’s intensity then cleared out by moving back into Jade’s body. Or rather, what should be Jade’s body.

In the place Jade stood before stood a three-metre-tall green tiger instead! Other than its larger size and green colour, it almost looked exactly like a tiger. Though the eyes looked human, like Jade’s eyes to be exact.

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"Okay, what kind of abomination is Beast Aura? what more can it do!?" Muku exclaimed as he looked at Jade’s new transformation.

"Well, there shouldn’t be much more; Jade just realised 99% of her potential..." Layla replied, no one noticed when she opened her eyes. But they were willing to get that she’d been watching from the start.

"Truly interesting! A Beast Empress and a Phoenix Mage!" Chloe commented while looking at the battleground with excitement in her eyes. She wished to also jump in a exchange a few rounds with them right there and then.

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The tension between Jade and Emily was at an all-time high. While Jade couldn’t see through the flames, Emily could do so just fine so she saw the whole transformation Jade went through. Surprisingly it seemed like after the transformation, Jade could see through the flames as she was now looking directly at Emily. This made Emily feel a bit nervous, although she knew it was Jade; she was a giant tiger at the moment, so how could she not feel nervous as a human?

"Holy Flame Judgment!" Emily called out the name of her spell. She changed a bit from Jade’s suggestion after Jade mentioned it when they were talking in the morning. It’s a weird spell that only burned what Emily wanted to burn while leaving the rest completely unharmed, it literally worked based on Emily’s judgement, so the name was definitely appropriate.

She immediately cast it when Jade disappeared in front of her when she blinked. Her golden flames turned a darker shade of gold and spread out in every direction. She didn’t know where Jade went, so she felt that she might as well burn everything everywhere.

Boom!

The flames behind her came into contact with something, and a booming sound was heard. When she looked back she realised that it was Tiger Jade’s paw. The claws were burned off as the tiger was thrown backwards, but the paw didn’t look too damaged; the claws immediately grew back as well. It seemed the tiger’s body was made completely of beast aura, and Jade’s body was encased inside and protected from harm. It might just be exactly what Jade needs to break through Emily’s flames and land a hit.

Having quickly realised this fact, Emily prepared her next attack, not wanting to give Jade enough time to regroup.

"Burning Meteor!". Emily took a bit of motivation from Layla’s prior spell. But instead of numerous attacks, she only created one huge one. A huge golden fireball descended on the spot Jade was; she could easily dodge it but knew that she’d definitely suffer if she let it reach the group.

"Earth Spikes!" Surprisingly, the tiger could talk; of course, Jade could talk, but to talk through a tiger’s mouth was quite odd to look at. As soon as she called out, tall and large earth spikes exploded out from the ground and met the giant fireball midair and stabbed directly into it. Before Emily could mock the terrible plan.

"Explode!" Jade called out and the peak point of the earth spikes exploded. This was unexpected for Emily as she had long forgotten that Jade could make her Beast Aura explode since she stopped using it after a day or two saying that she didn’t like it.

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BOOOOOM!

The explosion of the earth spikes also caused the explosion of the giant fireball. The sky was painted gold with hints of green mixed in. If people just focused on that spit it would seem like it was the end of the world. A strong flame-infused shockwave spread out from the explosion point. Both Emily and Jade were thrown away by it, but Jade managed to lend a lot better than Emily who fell to the ground. Though a lot of her beast aura was burned away exposing part of her body that was buried beneath. It wasn’t regenerating anymore, likely due to Jade running out of energy; it was her first time using it, after all.

"Haha, seems its my win!" Jade called out as she pounced on the down. Emily clearly didn’t care about an honourable win. Why would she wait for her to get up? Wouldn’t she get burned to a crisp then?

Boom!

"Holy Flame Judgment: Explosion!" Surprisingly, just when the slow-moving and smug Layla was about to touch Emily’s head with her battered claw. Emily propelled herself away with her flames, easily escaping Jade’s lazy attack. She didn’t wait for Jade to react and cast her strongest spell almost point blank in front of Jade, she even made it explode to make it spread faster.

"Ahh!" Jade, who was completely caught off guard, screamed in fear as the flame completely enveloped her and burned the rest of her beast aura away. She even closed her eyes thinking that she was definitely going to die on the spot.

"Huh?" Jade made a confused sound as she opened her eyes only to see that bit even her clothes were burned, but all her beast aura was gone.

"Hehe, you’ve lost", Emily said, looking at her with a smug smile on her super pale face. She had used everything she had in her last attack. Although even half of it would have been enough, she wanted to make sure that Jade wouldn’t be able to escape.

"Yeah, I guess it’s one zero now. I’ll win the next on..." Jade responded with a smile, she had no hard feelings about looking. But before she finished talking, she fainted and fell into the arms of Audrey, who’d appeared there at an unknown point.

If she had just realised her potential without fighting immediately after, she might not have fainted. But even her stronger than most body had its limits.