The dragon's harem

Chapter 798 Into the Underground Kingdom

The beavers guided Arad and Tempo to a guest room, where they could barely fit inside. Arad was especially big so he ended up shifting into a jacked beaver, even his tail had muscles, and for the time being Tempo sat in the corner hunched forward. ”Are you fine sitting like that?”

”Iʼm fine, doing stretches is important while shape-shifting.” Tempo smiled, he wasnʼt bothered at all.

Flatail walked inside, ”The chieftain is asleep, and he probably wonʼt wake up anytime soon.” He approached Arad and stared at him for a few seconds, inspecting him. ”Thatʼs one mighty beaver, as thick as an oak.”

”What will happen now?”

”Iʼll be your guide downward. This village is but the gate; we live here and maintain contact with the outside world for the lower beavers. There is a whole kingdom of us in the lower caves; they watch the horrorʼs seal.”

”He called me the nuclear chaos; do you know what that is?”

Flatail shook his head, ”Iʼve checked the chieftainʼs notes but found nothing about it. I could probably find something if I looked more but we are pressed for time. The dam would spill.”

”What dam?”

”I mean the horror would get out.”

”Chaos is a state of uncontrollable energy.” Tempo said in the back, ”But Iʼve got no idea what he means by the nuclear.”

”Are you fine sitting like that? Youʼre more folded than a stick in the mud.”

”Iʼm fine.” Tempo gave him a thumb up and a large smile.

”Anyway. Iʼll lead you forward. For answers; youʼll have to wait for the chieftain to wake up. We must hurry.”

They followed Flatail outside the chieftainʼs house and headed toward the forest, the other beavers followed them for a while before they slowly disappeared one by one.

”Donʼt mind them. They are afraid since the chieftain passed out. Some beavers think you mightʼve had a tooth in the matter.”

”He freaked about me. It was probably too much for his heart.”

”Still, his face wasnʼt that of fear, but hope. He even moved out of the throne, Iʼve never seen him lift as much of a finger.” Flatail looked at Arad. ”Whatever you are, heʼs happy youʼre here, and thatʼs what matters. Any beavers who dare say otherwise will get drowned in the dam.”

”Donʼt kill anyone. Itʼs not worth it.”

Tempo laughed. ”Arad is right. The chieftain was happy, so why would you make it sad and complicated?”

”Beaver life isnʼt easy.” Flatail pointed forward, ”The hole leading to the caves is right behind that massive boulder. The best timbertech should be stored beside it to help us go down smoothly.”

”What is this timbertech you keep speaking of? My wife is a carpenter, Iʼm certain sheʼll be happy to learn something new.”

”Beaverʼs timbertech is the best in the world. Iʼm afraid your wife wonʼt catch up to our peopleʼs wisdom in years.” He giggled as they reached the hole. To a small wooden shed, he pointed out. The poor place looked more like an abandoned toilet booth rather than anything impressive.

”Thatʼs the timbertech?” Arad lifted an eyebrow, even he who wasnʼt delicate with his hands in the slightest could make something like that.

”Of course not, itʼs inside.” Flatail walked toward the shed with confidence. He pulled the door open and pulled a Y-shaped stick. He walked with a smug smile and thrust it between two stones beside the hole.

”Watch and learn. This is the art of my people.” He walked back to the shed and pulled a rope. He then tied it to the stick and dropped it into the hole.

”Weʼre climbing down?” Tempo stared at the seemingly endless black hole.

”Of course not, weʼre using a vertical beaver transportation system powered by water.” He giggled, ”Itʼs so high timbertech that it doesnʼt even require magic.” He walked between some stones and used a wooden wrench to push them aside, letting off a powerful stream of water enough to cover the whole hole.

”Watch my people wet hole.” He stood above a stone, lifting his tiny arms as if conjuring great magic. ”This is my peopleʼs glory!”

”So now what?” Arad looked at the water flowing into the hole.

”Even dragons canʼt comprehend the intellect of my people.” He rubbed his nose, ”Even am I flattered. I didnʼt expect us to be this far ahead.” He pointed at the hole. ”You grab into the robe and slowly float down in the water stream.”

Arad looked at Flatail with a disappointed face. He waved his arm and sent a powerful wave of gravity that closed the dam, stopped the water, and yanked the rope out in a single move. Flatail screamed his teeth out, holding his head in horror. ”My peopleʼs glory and timbertech!”

Tempo sighed in the back as Arad pulled Flatail toward him with gravity magic. ”Weʼre going down. Hold well.” He jumped into the hole with a passive face, and the poor beaver almost lost his life as he saw them falling down. Tempo quickly followed Arad, and before long they were both falling into the darkness, with Flatail crying rivers out of his tiny eyes.

”Mommy! Save Flatail!”

The darkness slowly filled with glowing stars that gently illuminated the distance, waves of magic started sparkling in the air they felt a warm gust of wind rush upward. Out of a hole in the ceiling of a great cavern filled with blue glowing mushrooms, floating jellyfish-like monsters, and countless small houses made of stone and ember-like redwood, glowing like gems on the ground.

”Itʼs beautiful!” Tempo smiled as he looked down.

”NO!” Flatail cried, ”Those lights! They are fighting monsters!” He pointed down. Both Arad and Tempo could see beavers in the street scrapping with some dog-like beasts the size of large sheep.

”Those arenʼt pets?” Tempo looked at Flatail with a passive face and two wide-open eyes.

”They arenʼt! Theyʼll kill my people! Get me down, I need to fight!”

Tempo giggled, ”Leave them to me. Your tail is shaking like crazy.”

”Iʼm not scared!”

Tempo turned his body upside down and accelerated downward with a burst of fire from his feet, flying like a missile toward the ground.

Two beavers ran across the street. ”Get away! Hurry! Let the guards deal with it, we arenʼt a match to those beasts!”

”Oh! My timber! What are we going to do? They are everywhere!” The other beaver cried, looking back to see one of the monsters leaping at him with an open maw.

Tempo fell from the sky with a downward swing of his sword and slashed the monster in half. As the monsterʼs halves fell to the side, he sheathed his blade and took a stance, taking a deep breath as the veins on his body bulged, and glowing red like magma.

[Lava Blade] His sword ignited inside the sheath and started dripping magma as Tempo unsheathed it slightly out.

[Dance of the magma streams]

Tempo flashed across the city in the blink of an eye, a net of boiling magma streams spread across all the streets, cutting and burning all of the monsters, even ripping the massive boulders the beavers used to block their streets into shreds.

From above, Arad could see what resembled a red glowing spider next to magma covering the whole city. That wasnʼt a simple spell, Tempo ran through all the streets and slashed the monsters manually, and the lava streams were the trails left by his blade. The city was several kilometers wide, which made Arad smile, ”He might be faster.”

Tempo slowly opened his lips, breathing a massive stream of fire as he stood right outside the city, his hair had started burning and his eyes were dripping flames. He rested the blade on his shoulder and took a stance, ”Youʼre the aggressor!” He shouted, his voice booming like thunder, ”Iʼll not stand still while you harm my friendʼs beautiful and peaceful people.”

”ME? Since when we were friends?” Flatail pointed at himself.

”Tempo! Leave that one to me; the city would get damaged otherwise.” Arad suddenly stopped falling and Flatail looked around with a dumbfounded face. ”Weʼre not falling?”

Arad floated with gravity magic and opened his arms with Flatail barely holding onto his back.

The cavernʼs wall exploded and a giant four-headed hellhound thatʼs almost twenty meters tall lunged out with open maws, aiming for the city. It was only for a fraction of a second, but Flatail cried his eyes out seeing such a huge monster.

Everything halted, the rubble froze in mid-air and even the monster got stuck floating. Baffled, the beast looked up and saw Arad T-posing in the air, glaring at him with glowing purple eyes. Aradʼs gravity magic had developed a lot, and this was its simplest application, nullifying gravity in a certain area or to certain objects.

”I canʼt really use any magic other than this as I need to keep focusing on my void.” Arad said with a smile, remembering that he was trying to adjust his void to cure Zul so he needed to be careful.

He pulled the adamantine sword out of his mouth like a magician and lifted it up, blood gushed from the blade and extended upward. ”Zia, Iʼll be borrowing your body if you donʼt mind.” He said.

”[AH! Master! Please use me as you like…aw!]” Doma smacked Zia in the head. ”[Calm down you pervert vampire nun maid combination. Heʼs only using your brain so hold still!]”

Doma was using a curse to give Arad access to Ziaʼs brain, the maid he got from Vlad alongside the vampire army. The curse was simple, Arad could use a portion of Ziaʼs brain to cast his magic, but in exchange, sheʼd feel like she was having the worst headache of her life.

Doma would usually enjoy seeing her suffer, but Zia had hit her with an uno reverse card. Zia enjoyed the pain and was giggling with a horny face inside Aradʼs stomach.

Arad swung the sword down and sent a slash of blood that sliced the beast in half.

Arad then used gravity magic to push the rubble and the beastʼs corpse outside the city and then dropped them. He then landed beside Tempo with Flatail shaking in terror above his shoulder.

”That was an impressive slash. Was it a blood art?” Tempo looked at Arad with a large smile.

”Yeah but…not my best.” Arad looked at his fist… ”I only have access to a tenth of my magic and even my physical abilities are halved.”

”Why is that?” Tempo looked at him. ”You looked pretty strong.”

”A third of my magic is reserved for my wife, Mira. Iʼm also split in half now with Gemini as I left my clone as a guard back at the university; itʼs attending the classes now. The clone has half of my brain and physical powers. And over all of that, Iʼm trying to focus my void into something that might be able to cure Zul, so… I canʼt say that was a good attack.”

”Sorry to say this. But are you an idiot? Coming here with all those limitations.” Tempo looked at him.

”My wives take priority, then the duties of a dragon, and lastly this.” Arad sheathed his sword.

”Iʼm neither married nor a dragon so I donʼt understand those. Fair enough to me, Iʼll protect you.” Tempo smiled.

”No need. Iʼll be the one protecting you; I can still fight like this with ease. Iʼve been in far worse conditions.” Arad remembered the time he became a human in Merlinʼs labyrinth.

”Youʼre weak and could still kill that thing?” Flatail gasped, looking at Aradʼs head with a shocked face.

”So the rumor of you trashing the second layer of hell isnʼt false.” Tempo giggled, ”This is getting interesting.”