The dragon's harem

KYA! Eris screamed, swinging a kick straight at Arad’s abdomen as she grabbed him by the ankles. Before the kick could hit him, Arad threw Jack at Lydia’s bed and lifted his hand, engulfing the room in his elemental expansion to prevent anyone from looking or listening to them.

Eris’s kick dropped Arad on his back. “Take your shoes before coming in! And don’t just teleport inside. Lydia is here as well.” Arad always tunes his power to the lowest level possible when with his wives. He doesn’t want to hurt them by mistake, and even in that case, they can’t hurt him with anything.

“JACK!” Lydia rushed to look at Jack, “Who did this?” At that moment, Arad could feel a horrifying amount of holy magic surging in Lydia’s body, followed by another type of energy, black, burning, and foul. Her golden eyes shifted black for a second and her sword in the corner of the room rattled, crackling with magic.

“I just miscalculated a fight. I still won, and the city should be relatively safe now.” Jack replied, and Lydia stood, stomping his stomach.

Jack cried, turning aside and puking blood on the floor.

“You idiot, get all the blood out of your stomach.” She brought a bucket for him. “Leave it there and you’ll have a nasty infection. Did you use that berserk potion?”

“Yeah, the bastard turned out to be a level 150 half-red-dragon.” Jack as he gasped.

“I’ll kick you later.” Lydia glared at him. “Don’t face such a thing alone.”

“Lie down, I’ll start the healing.”

After five minutes, Lydia finished doing what she could. “How do you feel.”

Jack stood, looking around. “I can’t see. I’m still blind.”

Lydia stared at him with a worried face. “I did fix the wounds…I probably need a stronger healing spell.”

“Don’t worry about it. Thanks to being blind, I managed to get a better feeling for my echolocation.” Jack smiled.

“No, I can’t let you stay blind. We need to heal it as soon as possible.” Lydia turned around, seeing Eris grabbing Arad in a chokehold while wrapping her legs around his hips, trying to both choke and snap his neck.

“Arad, do you have any powerful healing potions?”

“I don’t.” He replied, “But someone standing at the door might.” He waved his hand, and the room’s door opened. Sena and Selica walked in.

“Arad called me earlier. I’ve heard of what happened.” Sena looked at Arad, “How is she killing you?”

“I’m trying to teach him not to jump into a room without saying a word again. Lydia is here as well.” Eris growled, doing her best to choke Arad, but failing. The large muscles on his neck made it almost impossible to block his veins or airways with a human level of strength. It felt like she was trying to chokehold a bull.

“First.” Sena turned toward Jack, “Thank you for saving Selica. It was my mistake, I should’ve expected such an attack.”

“Sorry, it’s also my fault. I shouldn’t have gone out alone.” Selica bowed slightly. Strength-wise, Selica is just an athletic woman who knows how to throw a punch and has some powerful explosions. She isn’t fast enough to dodge a crossbow bolt, or survive a gang of armed thugs, especially if their leader was a level 150 half-red dragon.

“Don’t worry about it. I’ll heal soon enough.” Jack waved his hand.

Sena approached him. Extending her palm and covering his eyes. “A moment.” She almost immediately removed her hand, and Jack blinked twice. “I can see…”

“Heh?” Lydia gasped, turning toward Sena. “There was no holy magic. What did you do?”

“He had nerve damage and several small shards of dust and bones behind his eye sockets. I cleared them to his stomach so they could be ejected later. His brain had also shifted into focusing on his ears more than his eyes after losing them, so even with a full heal, his brain wouldn’t recognize the eyes as fixed. All did was adjust that and restart everything.” She smiled, “And as a thank for saving Selica, I shifted his eardrums up and down a bit so he can have a better echolocation.”

“How could you do that?” Jack stared at her with a suspicious glare. “You and your father are a bit…strange, I feel you hold more power than you show.”

“That isn’t true. Having a bit of talent or luck doesn’t mean we’re strong.” Sena looked at Jack with a smile. “People hearing you killed a powerful level 150 half-red-dragon would think you can punch a hole in a stone wall, but you can’t.”

“You’re strong, no need to hide that.” Arad stared at her, “You blocked a full power punch from me. I doubt anyone here is oblivious to that.”

“But, remember that I’m not a fighter. I rather sit down, sell houses for a living, and cook in my spare time.” She walked toward the door with Selica behind her. “Thanks again for your help. I’ll make sure to repay it later.”

The two quickly left as fast as they came in. Jack stared up with a confused face, “Now this is confusing.”

“Leave Sena alone, she’ll talk when she feels like it.” Arad replied to him. Sitting up even though Eris is still trying to choke him.

“I’m not talking about her. Everyone has a thing or two they want to hide. I’m talking about her shifting my eardrums.” Jack scratched his head.

“With echolocation, I can tell if something is behind, in front, to the right, or the left while listening normally, but I can’t tell if it’s up or down since my eardrums are almost at the same level.” Jack started explaining, “So I trained to tilt my head a bit to get one ear above the other like Alcott said, and it was working well. But now, I feel a bit weird not needing to do that. Habits are annoying, and I need to get rid of mine.”

“Is that so?” Arad looked at him and then closed his eyes. “I can do it a bit, but I don’t need to tilt my head.”

“Dragons naturally have a powerful hearing.” Jack stared at him. “Your ears have six eardrums instead of two. Three on each side so your vertical and horizontal hearing is far superior to most living beings, you can even hear sounds that we humans can’t.”

“He’s right.” Lydia added. “I’ve heard that all of your senses should be extremely powerful. Especially the eyes that could even see what humans can’t. Like invisible monsters and signals emitted by some creatures.”

Jack stared at Arad, “With such powerful senses, don’t you end up knowing things you shouldn’t?”

“I do, but Aella said she’ll kill me if I told anyone about them.” Arad replied.

“Like what?” Jack asked.

Eris tightened her grip on Arad’s neck. “Don’t tell him.”

“It’s widely known.” Lydia sighed. “He can tell people by smell better than look and can tell if a woman is in her period or not. For sight, I bet he can see anyone even if they were far away. He can stand on top of his house and stare at someone’s else window several kilometers away and see them well. For touch, dragons can practically tell if someone is alive or not by feeling the vibration of their heartbeat, breathing, and movements. For hearing, I bet he can hear our heartbeats and guts moving food, probably even blood flowing in our veins.” She looked at Arad, “What did I forget…Yeah, and he has a taste for humans, to him, I probably smell like a delicious roast.”

“Oooo…” Eris stared at them, “She knows.”

“It’s basic dragon knowledge.” She pulled a book from over her desk and threw it at Eris’s head, knocking her down. “Read it. We might be clerics and paladins, but our job is that of healers and support. You can’t stand there not knowing what you’re fighting, their weakness and abilities. It’s the healer’s job to pack healing potions, items, and antidots as well as to decide when to set off on travel when a druid isn’t available.”

“Arad can fly, and he can store everything in his stomach and pull it when needed,” Eris replied.

“He won’t be with you all the time. Learn to prepare yourself.” She stood and turned her face toward Jack as she lifted her foot.

“What are you doing?” Jack gasped.

CRACK! She kicked him in the face hard enough for him to fall back on the bed with a nosebleed. He struggled to stand, but she jumped on the bed and started stomping him. “You idiot fool! How many…times…I need…to…tell you…not to…fight alone!”

“AWA! That hurt! Stop it!” He growled, trying to escape but couldn’t.

Arad looked at them. “She’s imbuing healing magic in each kick so he heals before the next one.” He sighed, ^Since they were fighting when I first met them, this doesn’t seem strange.^

“AH!” Jack gasped and looked at Arad. “By the way.”

Seeing that Jack started talking with Arad, Lydia stopped kicking him and sat down.

“Can you do me a favor tomorrow? It’ll be in your course tomorrow so it should be simple.”

“What? I’ll talk with Selina for you. Do you need something else?” Even Arad didn’t know what they would study tomorrow. This bastard must’ve stolen some papers again.

“Not her…” He turned toward Lydia. “I’m not cheating, I’ll tell you if I wanted to do that.”

She sighed. “What kind of joke is that? Keep on.”

“Would you mind milking a few spiders for me?” Jack said with a smile.

“They have breasts?!” Arad stared at him with a dumbfounded face.

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