The dragon's harem

“You’re really going use the justice argument against me? I guess you aren’t wrong.” Damnation flew past Arad in a storm of fire. Countless blades of red-hot lava followed after her like a swarm of birds, engulfing Arad like bees.

“Justice? No, this is a threat, an example. And you’re the sacrifice. Everyone who dares make a move against this world is a sacrifice.” Arad, now looking like a balding old man, punched her in the face with a swift move, followed by a spinning kick engulfed in lightning. By the time the kick landed, he was a young woman with short black hair and blood-red eyes.

“You’re a threat, I must admit that. But don’t you think it’ll be better if you let me live in the world? Work for you? Maybe even become a spy?” She recoiled from the kick, half of her body charred, but those wounds didn’t last long.

She dodged Arad’s next attack by a hairbreadth, barely managing to save her head from getting cleaved by his arm. She had long abandoned defense since she had no way of surviving his assault for long. She might’ve had a chance if she worked together with Raptur, but alone, taking on Arad was an impossible ask, even for her.

Both Raptur and Damnation were trained soldiers, but not the kind that fights on the front lines. They were the back lines and the ones who worked from the shadows. Raptur was a spy, and Damnation was an intel specialist, the one who tortured people for it.

Arad was the opposite of them, an adult void dragon bred and born to fight, a fully armed soldier with all of his weapons. Caught with their pants down, Damnation and Raptur never stood a chance. Their power might be harrowing to the people of the world, but to Arad, they were probably the weakest of what he’ll face in the future.

“You know? Raptur’s fight was more fun. He tried to take over my body several times and ended up getting wounded. He did try to switch sides just like you, but he was more willing to fight.” Arad finally shifted back to his normal humanoid body and chased after her as the two of them clashed in a wave of fire and shockwaves, shaking the whole kingdom above them.

“He was a spy, a sneaky one, but could fight nonetheless. I doubt all of his missions ended up as he planned. Not like me, I always did my work right, got the info, and bailed. I couldn’t be damned to fight a fight that I can’t win. What’s the use of us winning the war if I’m not alive to enjoy the result?” She breathed a wave of lava at Arad, only for him to teleport past it and thrust his hand into her chest, lifting her up by the soul like a doll.

“This is the end. You were never a fighter, to begin with. Neither you nor Raptur was good enough to be a threat. You were merely a challenge.”

Damnation puked a torrent of lava on Arad’s arm, looked shocked for a second, and then a smirk crossed her face. “Got you.”

At that moment, Arad felt a heavy jolt rushing out of Damnation’s soul and assaulting his core, rattling his very being. Damnation wasn’t trying to kill him, not even cripple him. She knew that was impossible. She had better odds trying to seduce him.

What she tried to do was loosen his hold on the spatial magic locking the chamber. She almost immediately recognized it as belonging to Vorvadoss’s space eldritch magic, and then it was only a matter of time before she cracked it.

All she needed at the end was a direct link to Arad’s soul, and she had that link when he grabbed her soul, trying to rip it apart.

Arad recoiled back, feeling a heavy flood drowning his thoughts, seeking one thing. To shatter his concentration on the space magic. Damnation didn’t even care about her own safety or ability. She bet everything she had on cracking the space magic, even if it meant frying her brain and not being able to escape anyway.

“Listen, I’m still willing to switch sides and serve you as long as you promise to keep me safe in the world, to allow me to live in it. I’m sure the universe would be fine with a few abominations being the exception, allowed inside through special circumstances.”

She smiled, falling to her knees in a pool of her own lava. “What do you say? Are you going to let me slip away from your hands now?”

Damnation could feel the hold of his space magic growing weaker. She knew Vorvadoss longer than Arad. Information was her bread and butter, and Vorvadoss was always her guy for when she needed someone to slip in and steal something from the universe. She had seen his space magic until she got bored of it.

Arad learned Vorvadoss’s space magic from observation alone, but she had studied it for untold eons, trying to only send Vorvadoss to missions that he could accomplish. Even if Damnation had a far lower mental capacity than Arad, she knew the magic better than him and was winning in the tug of war.

“Come on! Fall! Fall! Or take me in and end this stupid fight.” She growled with a smile, but soon, she frowned, seeing a familiar face standing behind Arad. Tall, red-haried, and beautiful, Arad’s Volcanic Titan’s incarnation.

The Volcanic Titan’s incarnation wiped all of Damnation’s lava spawn and came here for support. She quickly shifted back to Arad, and their combined effort quickly put an end to Damnation’s interference.

“This isn’t fair at all.” She gasped one second before getting kicked in the face. Arad jumped to her side and threw a punch. Before long, the two incarnations were throwing Damnation between them like a ball, kicking and punching her around with all of their might.

A fraction of a second later, Doma flew out of Arad’s back using a void body to join in the fun, trying to use a curse to get as much information from Damnation as she could.

Stuck between three ruthless opponents, she was helpless, only capable of enduring the pain.