The dragon's harem

As Rey and Ray looked at Arad’s chest, their eyes opened wide as the radiant light flashed. It took them a fraction of a second to move, but that was enough for Arad to blow up, drowning the world in fire and radiation.

As the world was painted red, the continent trembled, and the sky cracked. A mushroom cloud of crimson flame touched the heavens as a devastating shockwave shaved the mountains flat.

Arad had transformed into his draconic form and blasted the whole area to get some distance away from the twins. Just in case they used their power in a way he didn’t expect.

Something ghostly flashed through the ash and smoke, two of them. Unseen to normal eyes, but Arad could barely perceive them. Invisible, translucent massive drakainas with each of them at least a thousand kilometers long, not counting their gargantuan tails.

Mana Dragons are naturally invisible. To Arad, they looked like a haze, a shift in the air akin to what’s caused by heat, but that was only achieved thanks to his powerful senses. And that only when the two aren’t trying to hide if they wanted he won’t ever know they were around.

As Arad expected, the moment he pulled the power of his void, the two maids stopped pulling their punches back. Right now, the world around him was mundane, devoid of all mana. All forms of mystical powers and spells had become impossible to achieve. It didn’t matter if it was divine magic or magic. All had been disabled.

Even flight would be harder now. But there is one thing they didn’t disable or couldn’t because it’s a part of innate biology. His control over the void in his stomach, his nuclear engine.

The ground beneath Arad exploded into a harrowing nuclear blast. He used it to propel himself into the air and fly faster than he should’ve been able to with his wings.

If flying with nuclear rockets wasn’t enough, Arad had also found out that even without his gravity magic, the ridiculous mass of matter he kept inside his stomach was attracting other matter, the same way Earth attract everything with its gravity. When coupled with his void stomach acting like a vacuum cleaner, he could rip the ground apart from kilometers in the sky and suck into his stomach to fuel his engine.

It took him but a flash to reach Rey, whose claw was already coming down at him like a mountain falling from the clouds. It was too vast to dodge, too heavy to block, and too immense to endure. In the same way that a fly won’t survive getting slapped on the table by a human hand, he won’t live afterward if he took this hit.

Void Step. Does it still work? The answer was yes. That ability was innate to him and never needed mana. He zapped past Rey’s hand, reached her head, and avoided a deadly bite, only having his tail bitten off.

But Arad’s goal wasn’t her head, but her spine, which he teleported down her back to reach rather quickly.

Of course, Rey wasn’t standing still. Arad could teleport up to four thousand kilometers, and Rey was just a thousand kilometers long. He should’ve reached her spine in one jump if she wasn’t running backward all around the continent and crossing several thousand kilometers a second in a fiery blast, which made it far too difficult to catch.

Arad did end up catching up quickly to her thanks to a combination of his Void Step and nuclear blasts, and now he was right above the middle of her spine, clenching several dozen tons of matter in his right claw.

What is the easiest thing to create from energy? Hydrogen is the simplest atom.

Compressed, shattered, and unleashed. First, it was but a tiny flash that exploded into a literal sun on the surface of the poor mortal world, evaporating anything in its wake for hundreds of kilometers. The fireball of nuclear fusion expanded and then burst into a world-rattling explosion.

Rey’s back caved down, and her great body got smacked to the ground, which quickly shattered and melted into the unforgiving heat and radiation. Ray, who was a fair distance away from them, saw the flash and then felt the continent split into tiny fragments beneath her feet.

At that moment, Arad was already beneath her, swinging another hydrogen bomb punch aimed at her exposed belly.

Unlike Rey, Ray managed to react in time and shifted her massive body out of the way. Arad’s punch, as powerful as the one before, had blasted a large section of the atmosphere into space and drowned the world in fire and radiation. If this world wasn’t already dead, it would’ve died with Arad’s first punch, and this second one was just kicking the dead.

Ray swung her claw and smacked Arad so hard that his body exploded into a splash of blood and bone splinters, sending whatever minced dragon meat remained of him into the nearby dead sea.

Arad expected his first punch to catch them by surprise, but he also expected that the second one would miss. That is why he had sucked all of his organs into his stomach before swinging it, knowing well that Ray would smack him away.

It was all a part of his plan. If he tried to head to the sea on his own, the two would’ve stopped him no matter what. That is why he made sure to position himself between Ray and the sea so she’ll send him right to it on her own.

Why? Because a sea has a lot of water, and water has a lot of hydrogen.

The twins remained still for a second too long as Ray checked on Rey. Rey was fine. The attack hurt her a bit, but it wasn’t lethal. The two would’ve thought that Arad had a plan if he headed to sea, but since Ray smacked him toward it, they only thought he was injured and regenerating there.

“That’s little shit.” Rey growled, “He had all that power just hidden?”

Ray looked at her, “How was he supposed to test that in the world without destroying it? You know that void dragons can eat whole worlds to fuel themselves.”

The two didn’t understand how The Void worked, and so they had no idea about hydrogen or how important water is. All they knew was that by eating matter, Void Dragons can generate energy blasts and teleport.

By now, they should’ve been rushing to pull Arad out of the sea, but they didn’t.

The sea swirled into a massive whirlpool, spun to the clouds like a tornado, and then disappeared into Arad’s stomach.

“Ah, shit! Did he specifically need water?” Ray growled, realizing she sent Arad exactly where he wanted to be.