The dragon's harem

Arad slowly climbed the hill and onto the paved dirt road. The old road stubbornly stuck to the hill’s side, threatening to slide away with the slightest push. Arad’s legs sank into the soft dirt as he walked alongside the road, his eyes looking for anything to mend his wounds.

Blood dripped across his still massive torso, falling into the dried dirt. With each step, the blood loss grew stronger until he fell, unconscious in a mud pool of his blood.

As Lilia said, he has no hope of surviving in this world if he doesn’t master the threads of magic. But with such a heavy injury, he had no chance to even cast a single spell.

After a while, Arad opened his eyes, feeling a sharp piercing pain in his chest. He growled, trying to stand up but a hand pushed him down. “Jimmy! Hold him down!” A girl wearing a white cleric room cried blood covering her arms and chest.

“I can’t! He’s as big as an ox!” The guy growled, pushing down on Arad’s face. “Calm down, big boy! It hurts a bit, but you’ll be fine.”

The girl was suturing Arad’s gaping wound, they had just found him dying on the road and carried him into their carriage. After drenching his wound with healing potions, they are now closing it.

Arad’s eyes shot open as he stared down, seeing the girl’s hands shaking as she sutured his chest closed. Her tensed face dropped sweat on him as she did her best to concentrate. “I know it hurt, just don’t move…” Her hand shaking was already a big enough burden.

They wanted to sedate Arad, but thanks to his size all the doses they have for humans will not work. They got one dart that can knock a bear down, but they can’t use that as it’s for their quest.

Arad blinked twice, his chest was burning with pain, but it was not at the level of Dalla’s slaps. It was indeed more than any pain that he would usually feel when he had his vampire blood, but he had already felt so many things that he could just tank it.

Arad stopped moving, “Sorry, I’ll breathe down my stomach.” He then started breathing from his stomach so he won’t bother the girl working.

Jimmy looked at Arad with a stunned face, “Wait… you’re fine?” Jimmy would be screaming and crying when getting a small cut sutured, but this man before him isn’t flinching.

“Yeah, felt worse before.” Arad nonchalantly replied.

“I would be crying like a baby.” Jimmy giggled, pulling a small piece of clothing, “Want something to bite on? So you won’t swallow your tongue?”

“Why would I swallow my tongue?” Arad lifted an eyebrow, to him, that thought never crossed his mind.

“You sure you’re a human?” Jimmy poked Arad’s face, “Except for your size, you look normal to me.” He had never seen a man as tall or as muscular as Arad before, they almost mistaken him for a small giant.

“I’m a human…” Arad replied with a disappointed face. He’s going to have a lot of trouble because that fact is correct, he’s a human now. After just a few minutes, the girl had finished suturing his wound.

“Jimmy, help me sit him up, I’ll wrap him with…” As she spoke, Arad sat on his own, “I can move. This wound isn’t enough to keep me down.” Arad could feel a sharp sting in his chest. “But…I know it’s awful, aren’t there any healers around to get rid of it?.”

The girl shook her face, “Sadly, you’ll have to wait until we get to the village for that.” They were on a mission now, and they can’t just abort it and return.

“You’re a monster…” Jimmy gasped and Arad cracked his neck, trying to stand up. The girl yelled at him, “Stay down, you’ll only open your wounds.”

“I’ll be fine.” Arad lifted his hand toward his chest. This is fatal for a human, and he’s one now. If he doesn’t do anything about it, he’ll indeed end up dead soon. Focusing deep, Arad tried to channel divine magic from Eris. He doesn’t have the time or patience to wait until they get back to the village.

Lydia had taught him how to channel divine magic and he’s now worshipping his wives, Eris and Mira. From them, he can draw divine magic and cast simple healing spells or smites. With all of his powers, those healing spells are useless, but in this situation, they are a lifesaver.

But as Arad tried to channel the divine magic, the spell indeed worked and his wound healed a tiny bit. But the divine magic didn’t belong to Eris, not even to Mira. It was coming from something else, a thing that he had felt before but was never sure about.

“This is…” Arad grunted with an annoyed face.

The girl there gasped, “See! Jimmy, I told you! He’s blessed by the goddess!” She said with a large smile, “We clerics can sense other clerics by divine magic!” In this world, a cleric can tell if another person is a cleric or not by sensing the divine magic. If they have it, they are clerics.

Clerics are approved by the goddess and so could be trusted.

^This is the magic goddess’s divine magic…the one who toyed with Merlin’s memories with a backlash…^ Arad couldn’t understand how she did this, but all he knew was that her magic came out when he tried to pull Eris’s divine magic.

[Sorry, I’m the only goddess in this world. You’ll have to use my holy magic if you want to heal.] Lilia’s voice boomed in his head. She didn’t just rob all of his powers and leave him as a mortal but also cut all of the connections to the previous world so he wouldn’t exploit them.

The healing spell that Arad used barely affected his wound. He wasn’t bleeding anymore, but one wrong move, and the wound would open again. The simple heal can at best heal small cuts and scratches, not a heart-deep wound.

^Your healing magic is useless, can’t even heal a small wound.^ Arad leaned back with a sore face, making the two helping him worried.

[Your injury is no small wound, my hands aren’t that small even with how short I am.] She laughed inside his head, [But that spell you got is the basic healing magic, I can grant you a higher version, only if you suck my toes.]

^Get the hell out of my head.^ He was getting tired of her. She’s the kind he hates the most, people who never listen.

[Than too bad, if you won’t suck my toes for holy magic. Then learn some actual magic instead, this is why you’re here, right? Now get to work, just know that one day in this world is a second in the one you were before. So you can spend as much as you like here.]

^If you can do that then why am I cramming all the training in a week outside? Why not just come here?^ The more Arad knew, the more he hated that tiny woman. He started to slowly understand why Kayden said everyone would run instead of dealing with her.

[Aren’t you a naive little boy, I never work for free. And I chose my prices. If you don’t like them, go create your world with rules to fit your whims.] The voice faded in Arad’s head, and The sighed with an exhausted face.

This world is the sapphire heaven of Yog, a massive world built by the goddess of magic to host her people. The sapphire heaven, like the mortal world, consists of countless kingdoms and races, all fighting for survival against monsters. The only difference is that the people of this world only worship the goddess of magic, and those who worship her in the mortal world and die unjustly might get reincarnated here by her.

Unlike Hati’s training ground, Lilia’s world seems to be on another level. She has people living in it, and she’s ruling as their only goddess. This reminded him of something that Lydia said, the gods have power in more than just the world.

The upper echelons of gods are on another level, nobody knows how many worlds they rule over and influence. Amaterasu is told to own countless suns as many as the stars of night, each one of them hosting its world for one god or another. This world has a sun and several moons, and that should be giving power to Amaterasu and Selune.

^That woman is the goddess of magic…no wonder she’s a problem.^ He cast the simple healing spell a few times to get his wounds closed up, but he still needed to rest and recover like any normal human.

“Jimmy, Chloe, get back out!” A young girl who looked no older than fifteen opened the carriage’s back door, panting with blood splattered all over her face.

“The bear showed up! Hurry up, Hannah will die!” She cried with a terrified face.

Jimmy pulled his sword and lunged forth, “Gogonbronso, hurry and help us with spells.” He looked at the girl who just arrived before turning around, “Chloe, he’s looking fine so hurry, Hannah must need healing.”

^The hell is a Gogonbronso?!^ Arad couldn’t comprehend the girl’s strange name, to this second, he still didn’t realize that in the current situation, a bear is an extremely dangerous

animal to deal with.