The dragon's harem

Chapter 823: Majestic Purple Sun

Eris rushed with the fairies as Aella returned to check what Merida was up to. Even though they told them not to act, she seemed to be about to do something rash. With what they knew of Meridaʼs quick temper, sheʼd probably engage the army if they sneezed.

”Lady Eris, are you sure you can handle the Shallon alone?” The fairy looked at her with a worried face. ”I know you have a divine core and youʼre starting on the path of a demi-god, but you arenʼt invisible.”

”Mistress of powerful! Pin knows that a mere wizard wonʼt stand in her presence. Itʼll be a great murder.” Pin sniffed the air, ”I can smell it from here, like dung rotting on the side of the road in a hot summer. Itʼs absolutely delightful, the stench of death.”

”Weʼre in the village. Stay with me, I donʼt want the rest to attack you. Weʼre quite agitated at the moment.” The fairy sighed, ”I wish Her Majesty Aella had come with us. They would listen far easier; itʼll be hard for me alone to convince them to trust someone with a devil.”

”Pin can hide.” Pin looked at the fairy with an evil smile. ”If you let me murder you. Slowly pluck your wings and leave you to bleed to death.”

”Youʼre no better than that wizard!” She gasped.

”Pin doesnʼt shit where she sleeps, thatʼs disgusting. Pin shits where others sleep, thatʼs funny.” The devilish giggles echoed through the trees as she faded into Erisʼs back. ”As long as you remain the ladyʼs allies, murder shall not claim souls on your side.”

They finally reached the fairyʼs village, a large and lush emerald grove. The little spirit spawns lived among tiny houses in the trees akin to birdhouses, flying among the butterflies, dancing and giggling along the breeze beneath the warm sunlight.

”Wait! Where is the army? They were flying everywhere?!” The fairy shouted and flew toward one of the civilian pixies. ”Where did the fighters go?” She asked with a worried and scared face.

”They went to face the wizard again. Since everything failed, theyʼre going to test a dive- bomb.” The man looked at the sun, ”Theyʼll fly to the mighty sun and come flashing down. Some will die, someone will get evaporated by the inner barrier, but those who make it into the tower could fight and kill the wizard, this is their plan.”

”Thatʼs suicide!” The fairy cried, looking at Eris, ”We need to stop them before itʼs too late.”

Eris looked at the old fairy man. ”You said they seek the mighty sun?” She took her necklace, a holy symbol of Amaterasu that Lydia gave her. ”Keep this until I return. But I canʼt promise the wizardʼs ash would remain.” She started walking toward the largest source of magic nearby, which had to be the wizardʼs tower.

The old man gasped, ”A symbol of Amaterasu, a paladin?” He looked at the fairy, ”Donʼt ask me. Itʼs complicated.” She flew after Eris as fast as she could.

When Eris and the fairy reached the battlefield, they saw a grim sight. Most of the fairies were badly injured on the ground, and half of them had already disintegrated into ash, not a single one made it inside. A massive stone golem stood in the way, crushing any fairy that was still alive.

”Pathetic! Pathetic! Pathetic! Pathetic! Pathetic little creatures of the forest!” The wizardʼs maniacal laughs could be heard echoing from the tower as the fairies screamed and died, helpless and unable to move or cast magic.

”Iʼve already got enough of your kind to start my magic. I even set up a breeding farm to make more, Iʼve no use for your tiny village.” The wizard waved his staff from the window, ”Get crushed and die! Iʼll build a new kingdom upon your corpses!”

The barriers evolved. The inner array had disintegration, the middle barrier had anti-magic, and the outer shell had domination, but now they got stacked upon each other.

The inner array had expanded into an elemental expansion of the wizard, and the middle barrier got the disintegration array mixed into it. The outer shell also received a spark of the middle barrier and now had both domination and anti-magic, alongside the massive stone golem guarding the tower.

The fairy fell on her face, barely able to breathe. ”Whatʼs this? Itʼs stronger than before...” She gasped, ”He got stronger?”

”This accursed wizard!” The commander of the fairies stood, leaning on her finger-sized sword. ”Under the grace of Titania, I shall never fall till death takes my life.” Titania was the title given to the goddess of the fairies, Ishtar, also called Titania, the knight queen of the fairies.

”Then die! Pathetic commander of the fairies!” The wizard shouted at the top of his lungs from the tower and the golem started walking forward.

As the commander growled, ready for her last stance, a large foot soared above her head. She looked up terrified and saw Eris walking past her, looking like a massive titan to the small fairies.

One step after another, she walked toward the golem. With each step, the wizardʼs barrier around her body screamed like twisting steel, cracking and clacking as if it was about to explode from how much Eris being there stressed it.

”Why arenʼt you falling? Who are you?” The wizard gasped, ”Iʼve perfected this magic for two hundred years! Kneel to me!” He increased the barrierʼs power.

”Hmmm,” Eris stood in place, staring at the golem ahead of her. ”Why would I kneel to you? I only kneel to my husband.” Her eyes hovered from the golem to the tower, spotting the wizardʼs silhouette in the window. ”People like you are the pathetic one. Not even worth stepping on.”

”The words of corpses hold neither meaning nor weight. My golem shall crush you flat!” He yelled.

Eris took a stance. ”As I said before, the fairies looked at the sun for help. I might not be here, but Iʼve got a thing of my own.” A blinding purple sun one meter in diameter appeared above her open palm, slowly spinning as it released enough heat to start evaporating water from the

forest.

”Purple Sun. My own magic.” She said with a passive face, aiming at the tower.

The fairies in the back gasped, almost burning from the heat. ”What kind of magic is that? Itʼs burning this hot inside an anti-magic barrier, how could it be?”

”That isnʼt normal magic!” The wizard gasped in panic. ”Only holy spells can survive in the anti-magic barrier if the god has direct access!” He started babbling like a madman. ”The sun is above us and Amaterasu had direct access, but itʼs strange! I canʼt sense any connection, there is no holy magic getting supplied to you through my barriers, and paladins canʼt infuse divine magic into normal magic, that isnʼt something that mortals can achieve!”

”That means one thing! But itʼs impossible, it canʼt be, that isnʼt something that should ever happen!!!!!!” He screamed his lungs out, ”Youʼre a demi-god, a being capable of conjuring their own divine magic!”

Eris nodded, ”Youʼve talked enough. Itʼs high time I blasted you and this whole tower, if I keep this sun out, Iʼll cook everyone in the forest and city alive.” The people in the city had started to feel the scorching heat as they saw the flashes of purple light painting the sky. The wizards in the castle had started to panic as they located a magic signal surpassing S-class monsters riddled with divine magic as if a god had ascended to the mortal world.

It was for a short time, but the wizards argued if they could capture this god and dissect him to see how the gods work. Of course, one of them who worshipped the goddess of magic spat on them and almost blasted the whole lab with a fireball, calling the blasphemy.

Back in the forest, the wizard quickly changed his tone now that a demi-god was there. ”Youʼre a fledgling goddess; youʼll need all the prayer you can get! Whatʼs your creed? Iʼll prepare sacrifices day and night; Iʼll happily suck your toes night and day!” He was an elf after all. ”Just! Donʼt blow my centuries of research away!”

”My toes are reserved for my husband. You arenʼt even worth looking at.” She waved her palm forward and the sun flew with a flash, the shadows of the trees danced across the horizon as the sun melted the golem and blasted the whole tower into ash and debris, all burning in a blinding purple haze of plasma.

The wizard screamed as his charred body flew into the air, he barely survived thanks to compressing all of his barriers and focusing on defense alone. But even with that, he looked like a piece of mean that was forgotten on the grill for a day until it became charcoal.

The sky remained glowing with an amethyst haze as a second purple sun appeared in the sky with Eris standing on it. ”Hmm, you survived that. I thought one meter was enough to evaporate you. How about this? A ten-meter wide sun.” She kicked the sun toward him. Shallon died in a purple blast behind the mountains, one strong enough to shake the ground. Whatever he worked for in life, what he was trying to achieve, and what he used the lives of all those fairies, all got burned into ash, erased from existence in the blink of an eye. Aella looked at the sky. ”Eris at it again. Why use all of that power?” She sighed. ^Iʼll give her

an earful when she returns.^ Aella turned toward the army, seeing them proceeding forward. Tempo had figured out their plan; they intended to teleport the whole army directly into Aradʼs location and attack him directly with all their forces, hoping to kill him or claim his power, before everyone died. Humans had reached the same conclusion as the fairies when dealing with an overpowered death trap.

But, the army had stopped moving, they couldnʼt precede a step toward the teleportation land, due to one thing. A large portion of the soldiers, especially the drafted civilians had pissed themselves and ran away crying. The seasoned soldiers wanted to strike down the deserters, but even they understood what was going on so they remained still, growling. The woman sitting in their way several hundred meters ahead. They could feel her from here.

Merida had seen the army move so she walked out of the carriage and sat in their path cross- legged. She jammed her sword into the ground, staring at them with her head resting on her fist, a passive face was all they got.

”Move! What are you waiting for? Other countries to claim the power of the desert? Yeah, youʼre traitors!” A noble growled and rushed toward one of the knights, swigging his sword. CLANG! The knight caught the noble sword with his hand and shattered it, ”That woman.” He

nodded toward Merida.

”The army canʼt move with such a monster sitting in our way.”

Merida shifted her legs and gently touched the blade of her sword. All the armyʼs horses and

mounts panicked and started running away as if their lives depended on it. The animals and monsters could feel it, the demon army residing within Meridaʼs body.