The dragon's harem

Lilia pulled a hand-sized humanoid steel golem out of her pocket and lifted it before Arad, “Let me introduce you, this is the current…”

“I’ll speak,” the golem jumped from her hand and expanded in a crackle of lighting into the size of a human. As he landed, the ground beneath his feet cracked as he stared at Arad, his eyes sparking with power.

“Have you heard of the true neutral plane? The world of law and order, the paradise of the machines, Mechanus. I’m the version 1000.01.3 of their mechanical god, Millenniumous.” His voice crackled like arching lightning, whatever was standing before Arad didn’t have a soul.

“Nope, never heard of you.” Arad replied and immediately swung a fist at Millenniumous’s face.

Millenniumous remained still and didn’t move a spring, and Arad’s fist stopped right before his face. “Why don’t you dodge or block?”

“By my calculation, you weren’t trying to hit me. The blast would destroy the university and that halfling would be pissed.” He pointed back at Betty, “And, you’ve already noticed, right? The one standing before you isn’t me, but a mere soulless puppet controlled from far away.” He giggled, “I didn’t move my anus from MechAnus…”

Lilia immediately jolted him with a bolt of lightning, “Shut up! That isn’t funny, even to me. It doesn’t help that your lower torso is Mechanus itself.”

She then looked at Arad, “He was once called Primous, he’s the machine god of Mechanus. You might’ve known him with one of his countless names, with each version it changes 1.1 is Primous, 2.1 is Secondous, and so on.”

“Still, I’ve never heard of him.” Arad waved his hand and ripped the ropes tying Betty and Luminous. “What brought you here?”

“I was the cosmic police before void dragons came to be. My endless army of steel golems would march across the world to find and eliminate cosmic threats.” Millenniumous said, lifting his hand and trying to mimic humans, “Now, I’ve taken a back seat and I’m only doing detective work, spying across the outer world with my disposable golems to monitor abomination activities.”

“What does that have to do with me? I’ve gone to the outer world once, but I’m not going there again.” Arad replied with a passive face. He wants to lay low and enjoy his time with his wives, going outside might mean him getting cursed again.

“Jordan is still alive. Vorvadoss’s cultists teleported him to the outer world.” Millenniumous said with a flat tone, “You’ve beaten Vorvadoss so much that he gave up on life and fell into an abyssal depression. The cultists have already transferred Vorvadoss’s power into Jordan’s dying body.”

“What do you mean by that? I killed Jordan with my hands.” Arad gasped.

“He was getting power from Vorvadoss which made him a perfect vessel. While Vorvadoss is dead for now and Jordan has taken upon his powers, when Nyar, that man clad in yellow comes back, he’ll resurrect Vorvadoss.” Millenniumous pointed at Arad, “Before that, I’m certain Jordan would seek you with vengeance, I’ve already lost a thousand bots trying to eliminate him.” He pointed to himself, “Like this one I’m speaking to you through.”

“By the way…” Lilia pointed at Millenniumous, “Don’t let his size fool you, this bastard stores massive war golems inside a storage spell and pulls them out to fight. This one bot is almost half as strong as Tiamat.”

“I have billions of bots, but I can’t activate them all at the same time as I lack the energy to support that. But I can send around a thousand of them at the same time.” Millenniumous looked at Arad, “I’ve come here to warn you. It’s my job as the cosmic intelligence to report to all of the cosmic police. Your kind, the void dragons are the ones to hunt monsters on the edges of the world, and I’m the one to investigate outside it.”

“This matter concerns me more than anyone else so…” Arad looked at him.

“Yeah, I’m only informing you, unless you want otherwise.” Millenniumous started floating, “And…by the way… I might’ve dropped an inevitable after you…don’t die. Think of it as a training.” He shrunk down and flew into Lilia’s pocket.

“That’s it for me. Don’t die…” She disappeared in a flash. Betty and Luminous finally could speak, “Run!” Luminous growled.

“It’s here!” Betty yelled at him.

The office’s door slowly opened, and a maid stared from the crack at Arad, her steel eyes flashing with lightning.

Luminous clapped her hands together and teleported away with Arad and Betty. “Grandma, that thing, what is it?” Betty growled, “I never sensed such magic in my life.” “Inevitable are forces sent to hunt stray gods and demigods, this thing is what would’ve eventually come for Korah and Jordan.” Luminous looked around. “Forget shaking them off, the only option is to destroy them.”

“I still don’t understand, that Millenniumous hunk of steel sent it?” Arad looked at them.

“Yeah. Usually, they are like cockroaches, kill one, and ten show up. But since this is a training from Millenniumous and Lilia, I doubt that more would come out. You only need to defeat this one.” Luminous smiled, “Void boy, you’ve finally started seeing true danger. What level are you?”

“Haven’t checked in a while, but I’m sure I’ve already surpassed 100.” Arad replied and Luminous stared at him, her light flickering, “Are you serious?”

“Yeah…” Arad nodded.

“Fine, run. I’ll deal with that thing.” The sky above them rumbled as large black cracks expanded, the maid fell down from the sky engulfed in fire and lighting. The earth around them rumbled as she stood up.

“Where are we? We’re far away, right?” Arad gasped.

“A demi-plane like the one your brother blew up.” Luminous giggled, “She even followed us here. It seems the rumors are true, they could move freely through dimension.”

At that moment, the air stopped moving and Arad stood still. Everyone, even the inevitable slayer could feel it, the dreadful aura growing around Arad. He slowly turned toward, her, a cube in his hand.

“You can get inside?” He said, his eyes burning with his magic.

“I can.” She replied.

Arad immediately pointed at the cube, “Get inside and pull her out. Now!”

“Make me.” She replied with a passive face, lightning exploding from her back. Arad’s body flashed in magic as he transformed into his draconic form, towering over her. “Get her out, scrap bucket.” He lifted his claw and swung it down, ripping the inevitable’s left arm.

She didn’t even flinch, her eyes slowly moved to look at her arm, “Damage detected…order rejected, initiating destruction mode. Target’s health, 100%, mission completion 0%.”

As lightning sparked from her shattered arm, the broken pieces flew up and melted together as her arm repaired itself in the blink of an eye.

“My wife is locked inside, I’ll not play human games with you. Either get inside and pull her out, or I’ll rip you apart right here and now.” Arad’s body started lightning up with energy as he started crushing matter, charging for a massive blast.

“You don’t have administrative authority, only Millenniumous.” Her eyes spazzed around as she searched the collective library of the world of order for a suitable word. “Deus Ex

Machina.”

Luminous grabbed Betty and ran away, “He’s about to blow off!” she gasped as they zipped away, radiating and chasing them at the speed of light.

****

“Do you think he’ll win?” Millenniumous said, standing on Lilia’s desk at the top layer of the

mage’s tower.

“You can watch the fight through the inevitable’s eyes. Do that.” Lilia stared at him with a bored face, “I too want to watch.”

“That’ll take precious computing power from her. I’d rather not interfere a single bit to get accurate data on him.” Millenniumous waved his hand, “Precision is key to all machines. That’s why our world is called the plane of law and order.”

At that moment, the tower shook with an impact and Lilia gasped, “What’s going on? The outer barrier shattered?” She waved her hand to conjure a panel of magic, but Millenniumous pointed at the window.

She slowly turned her head and saw Arad’s massive eye glaring at them with burning rage. His head slowly moved, and he spat the destroyed inevitable through the window at them. “Millenniumous…” Arad growled, “You can freely teleport through dimensions?” Arad shifted back into his human form and jumped inside.

“Wait…you defeated her?” Millenniumous gasped, “I didn’t get a notice of her destruction…” He looked at the sparking hunk of steel before him, stunned.

Arad didn’t bother replying and pulled the cube where Zephyr was trapped, “Get inside and

get Zephyr out. Now.”

“We machine can move, but we can’t take anything living with us. Even if I can get in and out,

I can’t pull her with me.” Millenniumous replied and pointed at the destroyed inevitable, “She can’t pull her out either.”

“Then how do you get inside? I’ll pull her out myself.” Arad growled.

“First, answer me. How did you beat her?” Millenniumous growled.

“I juggled her back and forth through the curse of existence. In a world where neither time nor

space exist, she seemed to fail at everything. She instantly stopped working and I crushed her

to bits.” Arad replied it was Doma’s domain.

“All of my machines use time and space and coordinate and references to act, learn, and

predict attacks. If you ripped them out of those two they’ll get confused and it’ll take too long to correct the errors.” Millenniumous giggled, “Found a new bug.”