The dragon's harem

Chapter 695 Aradʼs Magic

Arad lifted his hands, sucking the debris from the street straight into his stomach. Eris stood beside him, watching the streets get clean with each passing second. ”How is your magic doing?”

”The void?” Arad looked at her.

”What else would I be asking about?” She stared at him, tilting her head.

”I managed to divide it into three types. Null, which is the nothingness of the void, is my elemental type. Thatʼs the part that powers my stomach and innate void breath that erases things.” Arad shook his hands, ”This one,”

Eris stared at his hands sucking the debris, this was the null application of his magic.

”Then I have a negative application of it which I subtract void from matter to cause it to collapse into pure energy and heat,” He stopped sucking matter and lifted a finger up, conjuring a ball of bright light akin to a welding arc.

”This is the negative application, itʼs the one you use to make that destroys everything in a general direction,” She nodded.

”Yeah, the [Fuck everything in that general direction] Breath as my spawns named it, I learned it from brother,” He smiled.

”That name is a horrifying one, especially when you hear how loud that breath is,” She giggled, ”And the third application is positive, right?”

”Yes, the positive is when I added void to existing energy to force it to stabilize back into matter,” He smiled, the ball of light on his finger fading into a puff of smoke. ”For now, I can do two things.”

The air around his finger exploded into a blue flame and it faded quickly, releasing a whistling sound. ”The first one is a gas that burns bright blue[Hydrogen] and this one that I had to make when trying to cool my blood when facing Vlad. Itʼs quite a decent insulator for heat, and it doesnʼt seem to catch fire or harm living tissue[Helium] But making it was extremely harder than the first one and took almost four times the energy,” He sighed, ”At this rate, I wonʼt have enough to make that much,”

”Four times the energy for something can only insulate things, itʼs bad, isnʼt it?” Eris stared at the air, ”It doesnʼt do any damage, does it?”

”Well,” Arad smiled, ”aT LeAst I cAn Do tHiS!” He spoke, his voice booming in a high pitch, startling Eris out.

”What was that? Voice-changing magic, why did it sound so funny?” She stared at him weirded out.

”It wasnʼt magic, I breathed the second gas I made instead of air. Depending on how much of it I breathe with air, I can make my voice sound LOuder and LOUder, and even LOUDER!”

”I wonʼt call that loud, itʼs just high pitched, like a whistle or a ringing sound,” She looked at him, ”But wait, if you have some of that gas stored in your stomach, you can change your voice without using magic?”

”Yeah, I wonʼt call it without magic as I would need to use it beforehand to create the gas. But once itʼs stored, it can be called magicless,” Arad smiled and kept cleaning the street, ”Iʼll try to focus a bit on studying my own magic and void. I bet I could get something powerful by combining it with gravity and barrier magic,”

”Youʼre mastering gravity magic,” Eris looked at him, ”But I never saw you cast a conventional spell,”

”I can do that,” Arad stopped cleaning the street with his left hand and pointed toward an empty spot, [Reverse Gravity]

The ground cracked where he pointed out in a purple haze and pieces started levitating, ”This is a conventional gravity spell. It simply reverses gravity in a designated spot,” Arad wiggled his fingers, ”But, the best it can do is cause things to levitate, it isnʼt that powerful and only useful as a trap to catch fighters.”

”And thatʼs why you started modifying the magic,”

”Yes,” Arad closed his fist then reopened it, stopping the spell he had cast. ”Look at this,” His hand glowed with a purple light, pulling a boulder to his palm.

”This is gravity magic that pulls things,” He smiled, and then the boulder flew out of his hand, smacking a wall so hard it blew a hole in it. ”And this is the reverse of that magic, the reverse gravity that pushes things away,”

Eris looked at his hand, ”And you can change the point of effect,”

”Yes,” Arad pointed at a part of the road, making it pull things toward it. ”Youʼre right.”

”I can understand those two, but what about barrier magic? It doesnʼt have that many properties to modify besides shape, does it?” Eris waved her hand, creating a small barrier of plasma.

”In fact, itʼs quite powerful,” Arad stopped cleaning the street and put his hands together, creating a small plank of barrier magic one meter on each side that floated ahead of him. ”As you can see, it has two sides. If I used fifty mana, I had to spread it across the magic and choose which side to reinforce. An equal spread would be twenty-five for each side.”

He smiled, ”But, I can make one side have forty-nine and the other only one.”

”Youʼll make one side vastly harder for defense. But still spend the same amount of mana. You canʼt make a side have zero as itʼll shatter just from the air.” Eris punched the weak side of the barrier, shattering the whole thing.

”Thatʼs right, that also means I can use it to trap people inside a barrier or keep them from entering one.” Arad smiled, creating a second barrier, ”But, it doesnʼt have only two surfaces,” He pointed at the edge and made the barrier just 0.1 by 1 meter akin to a thin blade. ”Letʼs make this edge far harder and sharper by changing its shape.” Arad then waved his hand, sending the barrier flying toward a wall and cutting it in half.

”You can use the barrier as a way to create magical weapons, blades, spears, and crushing mauls.” She sighed, ”Thatʼs horrifying, especially since they are almost fully transparent,”

”It is, but I still donʼt like it that much. Since it can be nullified by magic immunity,” He looked at the wall, sending hundreds of barrier blades and diced them into cubes in the blink of an eye.

He then waved his hand and sent a blade made of compressed wind and blasted another wall.

”I can shoot compressed wind or water blades that canʼt be nullified with magic immunity, but Iʼm limited to one shot at a time. I can fire them rapidly, but thatʼs still limited by my casting speed. On the other hand, barrier blades can be nullified by magic immunity. But I can create hundreds of them and fire all at the same time,” Arad waved his hand, dicing a second wall, ”I use the wind blade against those immune or resistant to magic, and the barrier blades against everyone else.”

Eris walked toward the diced walls and looked at them, ”This is horrifying, this still doesnʼt count your physical speed and strength. If someone got hit with this, even if they survived, theyʼd still have a whole dragon around that can blast a mountain with a single breath,”

”And I can use the barrier blades multiple times, so I can just cut the target again,” Arad added, quickly finishing cleaning the street.

”What about fire magic, you learned that, didnʼt you?” Eris looked at him.

”I did, but itʼs mostly useless as I can generate more heat with crushing matter. Iʼll only use fire magic, or make fire with my void if I need to hold back against someone,”

”I canʼt see anyone getting a chance against you,” She sighed.

”Nina managed to hold up, in fact, I was the one holding against her. Her skin deflects magic so I canʼt use the barrier blades, and she managed to punch my compressed wind and water blades with her bare hands. Not to mention her speed matched mine, if not being faster and stronger. I couldʼve tried using my void or expansion, but It wasnʼt the goal to kill.” Arad looked around the clean street with a smile, proud of his work. He then walked toward Eris. ”I need to figure out other ways to use what magic and powers I have. Especially gravity magic. I feel like there is a lot to discover and learn there.”

”Youʼre going to train a bit?” She looked at him.

”Read books. Iʼm pretty sure Baltos wonʼt need that much convincing to let me get a look at the royal library, even some secret books. Iʼm sure he has some stored in the castle,” He smiled.

”Kingdom secrets, I doubt heʼll agree,” Eris stared at Arad.

”What do you bet?” Arad stared at her.

”Iʼll teach you about plasma magic if he agrees, and youʼll let me suck your blood if he disagrees.” She stared at Arad with a smile.

An hour later.

”Want to reach the kingdomʼs secret library?” Baltos gasped who lay on the bed with Charlie beside him.

Arad and Eris nodded, facing them.

”Sure! But the vault in the castleʼs basement only opens with my magic. Youʼll have to take me there to open it for you. If you tried to brute your way inside, itʼll destroy all the books.” Baltos smiled, and Eris slapped her forehead. ”Itʼs my loss.” She growled, then glared at Baltos.

”Those are the kingdomʼs secrets! You sure want to give them out this easily?”

”If there is someone who should be able to access them.” Charlie smiled. ”Itʼs Arad. He saved the kingdom twice, albeit we lost the capital in the second one.”