The dragon's harem

Chapter 642 Shifting Scales

”Gojo!” Mira shouted, rushing toward Gojo as she saw him flying toward the house, ”You came back?”

”I mean, Iʼm here now,” He smiled, ”I would have preferred if you told me that Arad got kidnapped,”

”We tried contacting you yesterday,” She replied, tilting her head.

”Ah! It mustʼve been when I was knocked out after fighting the titan chieftain of Iceberg,” He scratched his head, ”Sorry, Iʼm not used to keeping a communication line open. It was Varsʼs job.”

”Knocked out?”

”I too have problems like Arad,” Gojo smiled, ”I do lose sometimes. Itʼs just that when I come help Arad itʼs like him coming to help Ignis or someone else.”

”Gojo!” Meryem rushed toward him, ”It isnʼt over yet,” She said as the chromatic dragons spread into the sky to search for the dream walkers.

”A second wave, I know,” Gojo smiled, ”The chromatics left me to deal with it here. Those monsters seem to have multiple colonies linked together in the ethereal realm that they can manifest in the mortal world underground.” He looked down, his blue eyes glowing as his hair started waving, and sparks of blue magic crackled around his body like fairy dust.

”From what I could suck out of their brains,” Gojo lifted his hands, combing his fingers, ”There is a decoy colony around the city where Arad got kidnapped. There is one hosting Doma and another where Arad is being used as a power source to power their whole kingdom. You can think of each colony as a city in a kingdom with powerful fighters and a ruling noble that varies in strength.”

The ground started shaking as they could feel the ants fight underground with the crawling army of the dream walkers.

”Donʼt worry. Those psychic monsters wonʼt drag any of you into their dreamland as long as Iʼm here,” He smiled, ”They wonʼt be staying here long enough afterward,”

[Void Expansion: Void March]

The rumbling stopped as Gojo disappeared. Meryem gasped, ”Hold on! All the dream walkers disappeared with him?!”

Thud! Standing in the middle of a vast, snowy land, Gojo looked toward the confused army of the dream walkers. ”I donʼt need to touch someone to teleport them with me with a void step. Now as long as you fit in my expansionʼs range and that I can stain you with my magic, itʼll work.” He took his robe and shirt off, stretching, ”Of course, limited by how much mana I want to waste. And how strong each of you is,”

”That isnʼt an innate void dragon ability,” A dream walker gasped.

”Iʼm a wizard, after all. I can modify my spells and expansion,” Gojo cracked his neck, ”And as a wizard, I spend a lot of time sitting over books, so itʼs time to move a bit,”

His eyes flashed blue as he took a stance, ”So letʼs get to boxing,”

CLAP! In the blink of an eye, he blitzed the dream walker that spoke first, slapping him in the face hard enough to send him flying.

^I also did run out of mana teleporting us here. I can regenerate it forcefully by re-sucking it, but that would interfere with some spells that I have set at base. I rather not do that,^ Gojo thought as he lunged at another dream walker, punching him three times in the face and then kicking him into the sky.

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CRACK! Sena landed inside a large cavern. She dug all the way into the Dream Walkersʼ colony. A vast alien city spread in front of her eyes, countless grey bots dripping with black goo pulsed like hearts as the magic around her twisted.

”Invaders!” Sena shouted, waving her hand, ”Iʼm here, come to get killed,” She paused and stared at the empty place, ”It smells like sweat, so I donʼt want to get in,”

None replied to her or appeared, leaving her standing alone there for half a minute.

”Iʼll be angrier if you made me fight in your stench. Are you sure you donʼt want to come out and have an easy death?” She asked once again. Her eyes told her. The dream walkers were hiding inside with the whole city trapped to kill her.

”Wait?” She gasped, extending her head forward as she stared at the city from a hole she made with her hand like an OK sign. ”He isnʼt here you bastard. Thatʼs just a chunk of his magic.”

All the dream walkers lunged out at once, ”Fuck! She noticed!” A large white dream walker pulled a long gun, pointing at her face as he jumped toward her.

Sena glared at him, and his body twisted, shrinking, and bleeding until he became a mere distorted fetus, falling on the ground and drowning in his own blood.

The other dream walkers froze in place, staring at the horrific scene.

”ARAD ISNʼT HERE! YOU BUGS!” Sena growled, her voice booming across the whole city, growing harsher and deeper as her body twisted, turning into a massive monstrosity that the dream walkersʼ brains couldnʼt even process her horrifying shape.

For some, she looked like a massive ball of tentacles, for others, she looked like goo, and for most, they only saw a writhing mass of blood and teeth, gargling blood as it dripped magic from its countless eyes.

An ineffable monster, a creature so horrid their brains couldnʼt comprehend its existence. In the same way, people canʼt understand or comprehend the beauty of a nymph and end up blinded or dead, Senaʼs eldritch form, just like her fatherʼs, made those looking at her go insane from the horror it imposes.

The dream walkers started laughing in despair. They thought they had a chance. She looked like a normal human girl. But the reality was far worse than they couldʼve ever imagined, ”Itʼs...” One of them gasped, but before he could finish, Sena stood alone on the surface, and only a massive hole remained where their colony was.

”Where is my Arad?!” She growled but soon saw someone standing behind her, ”Sena, calm down,” That voice sounded familiar, her brother Gray.

”Brother?” She turned, and he smiled, ”You worried about Arad?”

”You know something?” She growled.

”I said calm down,” He smiled, ”I trusted his abilities enough to let you chase him. He isnʼt the kind of person you should be this worried about,”

”And what do you know about him?”

”That the dream walkers are having trouble sucking energy from him, and that he keeps flipping around like a baby in a cradle, messing their whole lab.” Gray giggled, ”Never expected my brother-in-law to be such a menace even at his current strength,”

Sena started to calm down, ”If the dream walkers are here in the mortal world, that means their technology isnʼt advanced enough to contain a void dragon...” She shifted into her humanoid form, ”They intended to siphon some energy from Arad and use that power to process ores into metals, then create better tools and equipment to suck even more power of Arad. But it seems the process is harder than they expected.”

”For one reason,” Gray giggled, ”Putting Brother-in-law in a constant nightmare while keeping him in deep sleep caused him to develop a severe case of Somnambulism. I mean, they shouldnʼt have tried their method on a baby. Itʼs normal that itʼs going to have a side effect.”

”They donʼt know heʼs a baby,” Sena gasped, ”For all they know, heʼs thirty-five years old, young void dragon.”