The next morning...

"Alright. So after talking it out with Audrey and Jade. We decided that getting used to your new physical bodies is the most important thing right now. After all, with the little time we have, everything else might be hard to accomplish. But of course we'll do it too" Muku addressed the girls while they all stood on a long silver platform attached to the floating mansion.

That's right, the dude basically made a training ground in the air. So the group could train while looking for beasts to kill.

The creation impressed the girls quite a bit. After all, they remember back then when he could barely lift the mansion up. Now he could even add accessories and move around nonchalantly without feeling any mental toll. It was things like that which made them realise just how far they had come.

Anyway, after that Muku didn't delay any longer. The first thing he did was make the girls lift weights... No it wasn't so that they could become muscular huns, it was so that they could gauge how much they could lift.

The end result was the girls being able to barely lift weights equivalent to how heavy Tracy was in her normal fifty-metre-tall form.

That was for the mage-types. Audrey could comfortably lift such weights while Jade could easily lift them.

And even among the mage-type girls, Chloe could lift the most, followed by Layla, then Emily... The rest were so similar that it was hard to tell.

Obviously, Hope failed to live up to her own expectations this time as she tied for last place with Elsa and Freya.

But she wasn't discouraged. There were still other tests to be had.

And so, they moved on to the next. Which was measuring their top speed... As expected Jade won again, followed by Audrey then Chloe. But Elsa was surprisingly fourth in speed, followed by Hope.

Emily and Freya, the two with the largest boobs in the group were left in the dust as they struggled with their heavy chests.

Audrey also had quite a large chest but her physical body was stronger than the others so obviously she was faster.

And as for why Chloe wasn't first... That was because no mana or Beast Aura was used. If they had used those energies, then not even Jade could touch her. The girl's speed was already so fast at R4 when she went all out that it looked like teleportation. Who knew what it would be like when she reaches R5, R6 or R10? At that point... Honestly, who knows?

Anyway, the running test didn't stop there. There were other subtests like control, reaction and things like that.

On control, the girls had to make a sharp turn at the edge of the platform or risk falling off... Which some did.

Fortunately for them, Muku was there so they didn't plunge to the ground. Sure, it wouldn't have killed them but it would have been embarrassing.

After all, their Mana or Beast Aura was sealed by Muku so saving themselves was off the table.

Then came the reaction test at full speed. In that one, they had to dodge incoming projectiles from all angles.

Only Audrey, Jade and Emily who were used to doing that were able to pass the test. The rest would have been filled with holes if it weren't for dummy arrows that were used.

And yes, the arrows weren't too fast, they weren't even as fast as the girls but they still got hit. But that was understandable since they weren't used to the fast-paced thinking and reacting needed for dodging.

But of course, they will get used to it eventually.

After half a day of nonstop training, they finally took a break.

However, whether it was a real break or not, it was debatable. After, they only stopped because Raya located a couple of R4s engaged in battle a distance away.

The two beasts weren't alarmed because the mansion and training platform were invisible and completely undetectable due to Muku's Telekinetic barrier.

Only R5s had a chance of detecting the mansion. So the R4s were completely caught off guard.

They didn't sense anything even when the mansion came directly above them.

The light above them did get slightly warped, but they were too occupied to notice.

Even better was how more than ten other R4s with many lower-ranked beasts were looking on from a distance.

The beasts all looked like huge black wolves.

And from their years of experience. Muku's group quickly realised that the two who were fighting were probably doing so to decide on who would be the pack's leader.

That's right, even beasts did such a thing. Hell, humans also did it before the apocalypse. Just that humans fought with intelligence, cunning and connections to decide who would be the leader.

So yeah, being intelligent didn't prevent beings from using fighting to be on top, whether physically fighting, or mentally fighting...

Anyway, as a way to speed up the process, the girls decided to let one person kill the beasts.

And Hope happened to be the perfect person for the job.

With a little wave of her hands. Death began whispering in the ears of all twelve R4s on the ground.

There were seven LR4s, three MR4s and two PR4s which were fighting.

The seven LR4s fell first without making a sound. Hope was slightly above MR4 in strength, so taking out LR4s was easy.

Then followed the MR4s. The R3s, 2s and 1s began making sense in fear after seeing their superiors fall and die.

At first, the two PR4s ignored what was happening but after a while, they couldn't ignore it anymore.

But they were too late... Before they could enquire on what was happening, they both began feeling dizzy and soon they too fell.

And just like that twelve R4s were wiped out. It all ended in just two minutes...

"Oh my! What a horrifying little girl!" Tracy commented in both awe and horror.

Before she thought that only the grey-haired man and the child who gave off a weird scent were scary in the group. After all, they were R5s.

However, now it seemed she had misjudged the situation. She shouldn't have come to a conclusion when she knew nothing about the abilities of the others.

Hope's nonchalant way of killing off the beasts proved that point.

"Don't give me too much credit please. It was only so easy because none of them had their domain armour up. They weren't even using their domains or any mana at all" Hope replied shyly.

"Yeah, you're right. I know these beasts. They decide on who their leader is through brute strength alone. However, even then, being able to do that without being detected and doing it so quickly... I reckon even if they used their mana they'd get killed the moment they showed even the littlest weakness. And sorry if that sounded rude. I meant it as a compliment actually. I've never seen anyone using such a method before. Fortunately for me, it wasn't you who came after me or I would be long dead by now with many others accompanying me" Tracy explained herself.

"Are you calling me weak?" Layla surprisingly interjected herself into the talk.

"No, what I mean is that she wouldn't have appeared before me before attacking. Then I would have likely died without being able to even open my mouth..." Tracy explained to Layla.

"Oh... Okay," Layla accepted the reasonable explanation.

Anyway, after that Muku pulled out the beast cores from the twelve beasts after Jade confirmed that they all had them.

Speaking of which, beast cores were quite odd. They were completely undetectable when inside a beast's body or corpse, even if one scanned the whole thing with their mana sense.

And Jade who could easily pinpoint their location from day one was even weirder. Was that part of the mysterious power of her bloodline? Well, whatever it was, it was great for business.

Even if more often than not, high-ranking beasts had beast cores.

The group that had enough meat for the time being didn't take any of the wolf meat. Plus the meat Hope poisoned never tasted good even if she dispelled the poison so, they immediately went back to training.

This time they were learning hand-to-hand combat.

Muku showed them another interesting and unexpected ability.

He created eight metal clones of himself. The things weren't nearly as strong as he and would be pretty much useless in fights against R5s. But against R4s, like the girls, they were more than enough since their strength was Peak-Psuedo-R5.

And he could actually control them easily while doing everything else. It wasn't easy to do, but he had long mastered it while in the beast world.

There has come a time when it wasn't safe for him to move around, so he had to use clones.

Anyway, that was a story for another day. For now, what mattered was that all the girls had a training partner.

Instead of being happy, all of them felt like crying.

They were looking forward to the training since there was only one Muku. So obviously, some would rest while he trained one.

But obviously, that wasn't going to be the case now...

And so, the training began...