The dragon's harem

Chapter 763 Light Magic

DING! A bright portal emerged out of nothing in the chairmanʼs room. Gojo, Arad, and Betty fell from it to the ground. ”Weʼre back.” Arad looked around with a smile.

”That was scary…” Betty panted, staring at the two brothers.

”My head hurts.” Gojo scratched his head, the damage still remained and he needs time to fully heal.

Betty pulled a golden card and gave it to Gojo, ”This will allow you into any library in this university, study magic as much as you like.”

”Really?” He looked at her with a smile.

”Yeah.” She pointed at the door with a finger, and it opened. ”Head back to class, Arad will follow you soon.”

”Thank you for the card.” Gojo jumped out with a happy face. ”See you later, Arad.”

”Now he left.” Arad looked at Gojoʼs leave. He did need to heal, and like most creatures out there, he didnʼt want to look weak in front of those they wanted to protect.

”I canʼt believe how much damage your punch did.” Arad looked at her.

”It wasnʼt my punch that damaged his brain. When I hit his head, it accelerated his already compressed brain inside that small humanoid skull, causing it to hit the walls at near the speed of light and damage itself. A concussion.” Betty explained.

”That still the damage of your punch.” Arad sighed deeply.

”Forget about him for now, someone like him would be fine. But you, Iʼll train you as much as I can as I promised, even though I doubt Iʼll be of any help if you already have master inside your head.” Betty looked at him with a grin.

”How about brother?”

”Heʼs scary, I donʼt like him.” Betty said, puffing her chest, ”But you arenʼt scary, youʼre interesting. Letʼs play together. Gojo can learn in the libraries, I gave him access.”

”Well, but I need to get back to class as well for now.” He looked at her.

”Youʼre at my office, donʼt worry about it.” She jumped on her desk and sat crosslegged as she had before. ”Take a seat, letʼs talk for a bit.”

”What do you want to talk about?” Arad sat and looked at her.

”What do halflings love?” She stared at him.

Arad blinked twice, trying to guess what she meant. ”How would I know?”

”Dwarves live muscles and beards, elves hands and feet, humans breasts and butts, dragons wealth and strength. So what would halfling love?” She stared at him with a grin.

”I donʼt know, youʼre the first halfling Iʼve met.” Arad replied with a tired face, he didnʼt like where this was going.

”Jokes and simple life.” She stared at him, ”Halflings retire the moment they are born, we donʼt have a government, work, or obligations. We live in our little homes, tend to our gardens, bake pies, and drink wines that our neighbors brew cause they are bored. If you never have a goal, youʼre never lost. There are a rare few of us who seek something, but that is extremely rare, my mother was such a halfling.”

”Carefree.” Arad stared at her.

”Yep, we always make fun of each other, joke, and laugh at ourselves. No one gets made as none of us care, we donʼt take ourselves seriously, and we ask other races not to take our jokes seriously, weʼre trying to have fun so that if we die tomorrow, we at least had a good breakfast and a laugh today.” She stared at him with a grin, ”Weʼre your opposite.”

”Dragons are easy to anger and always plan and work to amass wealth and power, youʼre indeed our opposite, youʼre even small.” He looked at her with a smile.

”We have some kickable faces, donʼt we? Right where a humanoid foot is, one straight kick and we go rolling.” She giggled. ”Even you went to kick my face.”

”Youʼre too short.” Arad nodded. ”Youʼre around[3 feet] 0.9 meters tall, and Iʼm [7 feet] 2.1 meters tall.”

”Weʼre called halflings since weʼre half as tall as humanoids after all.” She smiled, ”Even our raceʼs name pokes fun at our height.”

”So what will you teach me?” Arad asked.

”My specialty is light magic. I donʼt know if you can learn it or not, but Iʼll at least teach you how to counter it. Master, did you teach him cursed magic?” Betty lifted her hand and a ball of light emerged above her palm.

”[I did teach him the basics, but he still lacks experience. Cursed magic grows stronger the more you use it. The deeper you sink, the more cursed you get.]”

”And that expansion?”

”[Iʼm the one who cast it. Aradʼs soul isnʼt that soaked into curses to be able to output that, if he cast it on his own, heʼll be cursed with so many negative effects that heʼll die on the spot.]”

”Curses are give and take, after all, they arenʼt a forbidden art for no reason. At least, with light magic, he might have an easier time.” She showed Arad her nails, ”How do they look?”

”Two centimeters tall, claw-like, sharp, and reflective like mirrors.” He replied.

She extended her hand to the side and grabbed the air with her nails, twisting the image of the wall and window behind her. ”I can twist and refract light as I wish.” She flicked her fingers, and a second Betty appeared.

”I can create illusions.” She ran her hand through the illusion and it passed right through.

”Disassemble light.” The illusion turned into a rainbow hue of colors.

”Create lasers.” She pointed a finger at Arad, and a beam of light started burning his arm. ”At least scream.” She sighed, turning it off and Arad healed instantly.”

”I can see anything in my magic range. And show it to other people.” She created several panels in front of Arad showing him everything that happens as if she had surveillance cameras everywhere.

”Of course, I can see through everything by twisting light. To me walls and clothes, even skin and flesh mean nothing, I can see straight through them.” She smiled, ”Of course, I could also become invisible.”

She disappeared.

”I can still see you.” Arad said, his eyes see more than what humans can. That is how his void eyes see mana and invisible creatures, they arenʼt really invisible, only emitting light outside of the visible range, in both the ultraviolet and infrared ranges.

”How about now?” She disappeared from his vision by eliminating all light reflected by her body and clothes and letting the light coming from behind her pass through her.

”I canʼt see you…I thought my eyes could see invisible creatures.” Arad looked at the empty desk, confused.

”Eyes rely on light. You wonʼt see me if I eliminate all of my light and become completely transparent. I even have to change the light around my breath as it hotter and slightly shifted the air density and thus refract light differently than if I wasnʼt there.” She giggled, ”What Iʼm saying, is that it takes a lot of practice, discipline, and math to calculate every possibility and control light.”

”My void is the same. Itʼs quite annoying to create new matter and guess what itʼll do.” He looked at her with a tired face.

”I feel you. It took me over a hundred years to learn what I know about light magic, and even I still have a long way to go.” She started taking her shoes off.

”What are you doing?” Arad asked.

”About to make myself at home.” She stood over the desk and hopped on Aradʼs shoulder. She then wrapped her legs around his neck and sat there.

”As I said, what are you doing?” He turned his head to look at her.

”Iʼll be sitting on your shoulder from now on. Iʼll help you with anything you want.” She tapped his head.

”Get down, my wives would kill you.” He growled.

”Donʼt worry, they canʼt kill me.” She smiled, ”Yo! Aradʼs wives, what are you doing?” She said with a smile and a panel showing her sitting on Aradʼs shoulders appeared in front of all of his wives.

Aella was in class, and she gasped.

Mira was in the bathroom, and Eris screamed in the middle of a prayer, making Lydia angry. Merida was in the swordsmanship and ended up smacking her opponent in the face, which was a foul.

[Iʼm the universityʼs chairman, Betty. Nice to meet you all, Aradʼs wives. Letʼs get along well, see after school] written subtitles showed at the bottom of the panel as she could only control light and not sound.

[I said get off my back.] Arad tried to fling her off her, and his words showed written on their screens.

[No, Iʼm not getting off. You arenʼt fast enough to generate enough momentum to throw me off.]

”AH!” Betty smiled, looking at Arad. ”They say weʼll talk about this later, they are busy now.” She flicked her fingers and shut off the panels. ”Letʼs get back to class. She became completely invisible.”

”Donʼt you have work? Chairman.” Arad growled.

”We halflings are retried since birth, so no.” She smiled.