The dragon's harem

Chapter 678 Arad Vs Vlad: Part I Adaptation

Vlad clenched his fist, ”Itʼs been over a thousand years since someone brute forced himself through by blood magic,” He smiled, ”How are you doing it?” CRACK! In the blink of an eye, he punched Arad in the stomach, sending him flying toward the forest with a blast. He stood with his smoking fist extended forward, ”But can you fight effectively like that?”

”Arad!” Eris screamed.

CRACKLE! CRACKLE! From the forest, Arad walked out with a hole in his torso, unbothered in the slightest, ”That was a nice punch,” His stomach healed like it was nothing. ”And itʼs my turn,”

ZON! Arad teleported toward Vlad, swinging a fist and smacking his face. BAM! BAM! Vladʼs body flew back, busting through the city wall and several buildings before stopping.

”HAHAHA!” Vlad started to laugh, his twisted face healing, ”I see, itʼs a fight of immortals. Youʼre as big of a monster as me,” He stood, shifting into mist and teleporting to stand before Arad. ”Letʼs play,” He lifted his hand, firing a blood blade that slicked a wound across Aradʼs torso.

Aradʼs body bent backward from the impact, but he quickly stared back toward Vlad, roaring. BAM! In the blink of an eye, he jumped forward, swinging a fist at Vladʼs shoulder.

Vlad jumped back with a flip, letting Aradʼs fist rip a chunk of the ground as it swung all the way to the dirt.

Getting out of his flip, Vlad waved his hand, sending a blood slash toward Arad, cutting his left arm.

ZON! Arad teleported toward Vlad, swinging his severed arm. As it healed, the fist smacked Vlad, sending him flying through the wall and into the city, ripping several buildings apart before landing on the wall of the capitalʼs wizard tower, which was extremely sturdy due to magic.

”Two holes in the wall? Donʼt you care about collateral damage?” Vlad shouted with a smile, but his eyes quickly burst open, seeing Arad running through the city, breaking buildings as he swung at Vlad.

Vlad turned around, running upward the towerʼs wall.

Arad looked up with his fist plunged into the stone, pulled it out, and swung the other one, digging upward through the wall. As Vlad looked back, he could swear Arad was swimming through the wall of the tower at a horrifying speed.

It didnʼt take Vlad long to reach the roof, and Arad was right behind him, swinging two fists down and smacking him on the head, sending him bursting through the towerʼs layer all the way to the base.

CRACK! Vlad landed on his legs, ^This tower used to have thousands of layers maintained by magic, but now that the wizard was long dead, it returned to being on twenty floors.^ He looked up, seeing Arad falling after him and landing beside him.

”Youʼre a problem,” Vlad touched Aradʼs chest and unleashed tens of blood blades at point blank, blasting Arad out of the tower. ”But you arenʼt using magic. Is that how youʼre resisting my blood magic?” He flew after Arad, conjuring a scythe and swinging at his neck.

Arad bent forward and swung his fist, deflecting Vladʼs scythe as blood gushed from his wounds.

Vlad waved his hand, and Aradʼs blood that spilled turned into spikes and stabbed him.

”You arenʼt using your magic, and I can control your blood once it gets out of your body,” Vlad stood there, staring at Arad with a passive face, ”I also never saw someone so hot. Your blood is hotter than that of red dragons. What are you doing?”

CLACK! Aradʼs wounds healed as he stared at Vlad with a smile, purple light sparking in his eyes.

”Youʼre doing something,” Vlad swung his arm, sending a slash of blood that blasted Arad across the city, and he flew after him, ”Then show me how long you can last,”

^I can wound him, but his bones are tough. Cutting them with blood slashes alone is difficult,^ Vlad thought as he waved his hand, compressing spears of blood.

”I guess you have high resistance to bludgeoning damage, mid for slashing, and weak for piercing.” Vlad fired the spears at Arad. Most were dodged, but one pierced Aradʼs chest, leaving a gaping hole where his heart should be.

”Iʼm right,” Vlad stood on a building, watching as Aradʼs chest healed, ”If I wanted to damage you as much as I can do with my fist by only using blood. Iʼll have to resort to piercing attacks,” He smiled, ”But, where are your organs? Only a few vampires can regenerate their heart without flinching,”

As Aradʼs wound healed, a white light emerged in his chest for a brief moment, flashing out as steam started gushing out of Aradʼs back.

”Here, it happened again,” Vlad pointed at Arad, ”The reason I canʼt control the blood in your body,”

Aradʼs eyes flashed green as he glared at Vlad.

Vlad gasped, feeling his heartbeat as his hand itched. He looked down, seeing his palm turning into stone.

”Petrefication curse?” He growled, cutting his wrist and flying back, ”Do you think no one had tried petrifying me before?”

ZON! Arad teleported behind Vlad and swung a fist.

Vlad turned and blocked it with his palm, swinging at Aradʼs face.

Arad blocked the punch and swung back at Vlad. For a minute, the two exchanged fists at a blinding speed, each trying to knock the other out by shattering their skull.

With a grin on his face, Vlad started mixing piercing and blood slashes between his attacks, cutting Aradʼs body bit by bit.

The building around them crumbled as Vladʼs blood attacks ripped everything to shreds.

CRACK! Arad managed to land a punch on Vladʼs face due to his defense growing weaker from mixing blood magic into his attacks.

Vladʼs face caved in as he flew through several buildings like they were nothing and landed in the capitalʼs plaza.

”HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Vlad started to laugh as his body levitated, staring at Arad as his face healed, ”Surprise, I wonʼt get knocked out even if you evaporated my whole body,”

Arad walked through the destroyed building, his legs pushing the rubble aside as he healed with a bunch of steam gushing out of his wounds.

”We arenʼt getting anywhere fighting like this,” Arad finally spoke, staring at Vlad with a passive face.

”Really? I donʼt think so,” Vlad replied, ”Youʼll run out of blood to heal with before me.”

Arad cracked his neck, ”Iʼm getting used to the heat and refilling. So itʼs time to try and use some spells,”

Arad had kept pondering how Vladʼs blood control worked since he got hit in Riverside. Magic does exist, but itʼs all spells that affect the world in specific ways to change it.

It required him to get to the bottom of blood, the true existence of vampirism beneath the curse magic holding it together. He didnʼt understand it that well but got deep enough to figure few things.

Vampirism acts more like a disease than anything else, and so does Vladʼs blood control. It infects the blood of the living and forces them to obey orders.

Since blood vessels spread across the whole body, Vlad can easily control people like dolls by moving the blood in their body like a second skeleton.

That had meant two facts that Arad realized. Just like how fever makes it harder for diseases to operate in someoneʼs body, Vladʼs control seems to wane the hotter Aradʼs body temperature gets. This seemed useless at first as Vlad could even control red dragons whose internal temperature can melt steel, but heʼs a void dragon.

Arad had all of his organs stored in a safe space in his void while he raised the temperature of his body by igniting matter inside his chest. Now, heʼs keeping a small [Ho-white Nova] burning inside as a heat source. That also proved to him that Vladʼs control canʼt cross the layers of his void, meaning his organs can get blood supply without needing to heat that blood.

Heating his blood to that degree caused it to start getting damaged rapidly, which also disrupted Vladʼs control. And now that Aradʼs bones have evolved, theyʼve been resupplying him with tens of liters of blood to replace what was burned or lost. They wonʼt stop as long as he has food, which his stomach and the ground beneath his feet have plenty of.

But, there was a severe downside. Since heʼs effectively fighting what would be a deadly fever, letting the boiling blood reach his brain could fry his nerves and cripple him.

Arad couldnʼt hide his brain inside his void as that would induce enough latency in his moves for Vlad to beat him into minced meat. Arad was also using his void to isolate the [Ho-white nova] inside his chest, transfer the heat, and get rid of the damaged blood. All of this wouldnʼt be possible without his innate void control, so hiding his brain was a no-go. Itʼs a critical organ for this fight.

He had to get creative with a plan to deal with that. He started forcing the blood that went into his brain to circulate on his back, colling off first before getting into his spine and up to his head He also decreased the amount of blood reaching his brain so it could be cooled easier and faster. That was the reason steam periodically gushed out of his back.

For this entire fight, Arad wasnʼt trying to fight Vlad, but he was instead focusing on optimizing his cooling system to provide more cold blood to his brain.

PUSSSHHHHH! A gust of steam gushed out of Aradʼs back as his sweat gland released water vapor as the blood cooled. He stared at Vlad with a grin taking a step forward.