The dragon's harem

Amaterasu clapped her hands, and the sun exploded beneath them, blossoming into a massive supernova.

The false goddess of fertility evaporated in a second and got absorbed cloud of fire, leaving nothing behind. All of that fire than few up and disappeared into Amaterasu’s body.

Amaterasu flew down with Eris, a smile on her red lips.

“I’ll let you fight a few of them. I want to see how far can you go.”

After flying for a small distance, Amaterasu stopped and looked around, then pointed at the darkness.

“Found some. Can you see them? They are inside the darkness. Go kill them. I’ll get myself comfortable up above and watch.” She flew away, several angels already appearing around her.

Eris looked and saw nothing. But she could feel it, something hid in the darkness, desperately trying to avoid them. More like, it was desperately trying to avoid Amaterasu.

It was a sad reality. All the false gods here wanted nothing to do with Amaterasu. If she came here alone, they wouldn’t have dared approach or bother her. Most of them at least would stay away, Eris was sure there are some fools who will try attacking Amaterasu.

Eris frowned.

“Yeah, I guess I don’t look that threatening when she is around.”

Eris plunged into the darkness, disappearing in it for just a second. What came next was a massive purple blast, so bright that it for a second exposed tens of disgusting beings in the shadows.

From the purple light, Eris emerged, flapping her massive butterfly wings like a divine beast of pure radiance. Taking Amaterasu’s advice to heart, she had engulfed her whole body in plasma, and even made sure that she is always set ablaze.

From the darkness, two massive bones spears burst toward her and Eris barely reacted in time to dodge them. Feeling the divine magic, her eyes opened wide.

That divine magic felt like a magnificent chef, one with godly skills was given rotten flesh and excrement to cook with yet still tried to make something fancy. In the end, he only ended up burning it to a crisp to mask the smell.

As Amaterasu told her, those weren’t true gods, but mutated horrors born from failed portfolios. This one in front of her had a lick of mending, but somewhere in the middle, it had devolved into a disgusting mess of divine magic, curses, and even a strange eldritch lick of something alien.

What repulsed her more, is that it looked like an open, gaping wound sowed shut with barbwire. The sutures weren’t even good, bones and guts were sticking out.

Eris was a mortician by profession. She embalms people and cremate them for a living. She had seen thousands of corpses, mangled corpses and still managed to make them presentable in a funeral. There were countless times when the body had to be stored for a long while before a funeral could beheld, so she needed to remove all organs and fluids from the body and replace them with potions to preserve the body.

She had seen so many things, so for this monster to disgust her, it was beyond horrid in shape.

“Damn, you’re ugly.”

She dodged another bone spike, grabbed it with one hand, and swung the whole monster like a rag doll, pulling it out of the darkness in a single swoop.

What came out was a mass of rotten, slithering flesh, teeth and ribs. It didn’t look like any living being that Eris knew, and for some reason, even looking at it felt wrong. It looked even uglier now that it was out of the darkness.

“Those false gods had been buried here since AO couldn’t bring himself to kill them. It was his fault they came this way after all. There are thousands of them hidden beneath hell.”

Amaterasu was resting above with several angels serving her, all beautiful and stunning women. One massaged her shoulders, one held a tray of tea beside her, four angels polished her nails, each taking a limb, one brushed her hair, one was making sure her kimono was fine, and two angels were half naked dancing and singing for entertainment.

What made it worse, those weren’t normal angels, but Archons, each powerful enough to humiliate most gods.

Eris couldn’t believe her eyes, but she had to focus on fighting instead of Amaterasu. That goddess was either flexing for no reason, or she really didn’t care and lived life as she wanted.

As lazy as she looked and spoiled as she looked, Amaterasu wasn’t taking a break. Instead, while she sat there enjoying her time, her consciousness swarmed the whole area, scanning for any lead in a radius too vast to be comprehended.

But her rest didn’t last long, because a second later, a massive diamond spike flew out of nothing and was about to hit her on the face. But instead of a hit, the spear stopped just a foot away from her.

None of the Archons moved, they knew nothing could reach Amaterasu unless she wanted.

Amaterasu blinked and the angels stopped serving her.

“Who’s the fool thinking they can attack me? You have that girl down there glowing and all, go after her.” She waved her foot, shooing them away.

All of the Archons glared in the direction Amaterasu pointed with her toes, and they saw it.

“Ten kilometers away and think he is safe? What a fool.” The Archon brushing Amaterasu’s hair growled and Amaterasu looked at her with a grin.

“Really, you say that?”

She looked away. “Please don’t bring that up.” Then sighed.

“I’m stupid, but not like that.” The Archon lifted her hand, the false god already shot a second diamond spear, so the Archon shot it down from afar with a beam of light.

“Shall I go kill him?”

Amaterasu shook her head. “No need. They can’t hit us anyway. Let Eris handle them.”

All the Archons returned to their work like nothing happened.

Seconds later, Eris flew from the depth of the darkness and grabbed the false god that tried to hit Amaterasu and ripped his head off. The disgusting horror looked like a goat, if it was skinless, had a tiger nose and tentacles instead of limbs.

“What kind of false god is this?” She tried to burn the head to ash.

Suddenly, the head she severed exploded into a burst of diamond splinters and charcoal, soon turning into a storm of fire and embers. Eris didn’t have a problem with the heat, because she was probably the second hottest thing here beside Amaterasu. But the diamond splinters were durable enough to pierce the thinner parts of her plasma armor.

“Told you that your armor is too thin to fight gods!” Amaterasu shouted from above.

Eris flew out of the explosion and let her will wash over the whole area. She was the goddess of murder, and she is about to murder a bunch of false gods. That mere fact caused her divine magic to surge and everything around to get weakened.

“AH!” Amaterasu moaned above them. “Eris, you’re hitting me as well. Do you know that your will can send chills down someone’s back.” She looked at her arm. “Look, I got goosebumps. It’s been a while.”

She looked at her angels. “Did you feel that? It’s similar to Gracie’s Death will. She might become able to kill people just using her thoughts.”

Eris heard Amaterasu, but she was too busy to reply. If she lost focus for even a second, those false gods would tear her apart. That prompted Amaterasu to frown. “But why are you holding back. Call your angels and vampires, this isn’t a fight you can afford to fight alone and hold back.”

Eris’s eyes flashed with a blinding purple light and several hundred of angels emerged behind her. But she didn’t call any vampires beside a small few.

For one reason, even if those vampires knew that Amaterasu is on their side, they’ll still freak out. They got a phobia of her.

Zia looked around at the darkness with a terrified face. She could feel her skin crawling and her bones tickling. What scared her wasn’t the false gods or the harrowing bloody battle taking place. She and the other vampires all looked up, their eyes glued onto Amaterasu’s figure.

Zia herself remained in place, unable to believe that the goddess behind the sun that all vampires fear was right there in front of them.

The other vampire paladins shat themselves and ran back to get some distance away from her, ending up behind Eris. But one of them didn’t. A woman clad in full black armored, she instead stood between Eris and Amaterasu. She was crying, shitting herself and shaking in place, but her sword and shield were pointed up.

Amaterasu shifted and looked down with a grin, spotting the vampire paladin. “Hoo? All of them thought I was here to attack you, Eris. But look, that one is still trying to protect you from me.”

Eris stopped moving since her angels were already keeping the false gods at bay. “The other are smart, she isn’t. You know better than anyone that fighting you is stupid.”

Eris had picked the strongest of her vampires and called them here for this one reason. Even if she told them that Amaterasu was an ally, and they knew she is their ally, they are still scared of her.

“No, she isn’t a fool. She is a good servant, treasure her well.”