The dragon's harem

Chapter 850: Divine Gauntlet V: Too Angry To Die

”You were indeed above all mortals.” Korah smiled as he turned around, ready to teleport after Jordan. ”Only blame your mortal limits.”

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As Gojo charged at Korah, ready to finish him off, something happened. It wasnʼt anything strange, but an expected event, he ran out of mana. That wasnʼt a problem to Gojo, itʼll only take him a fraction of a second to absorb and fully regenerate his. It had already happened before in this fight but it wasnʼt a problem.

After seeing it happen once in the fight and missing it, Korah had taken a defensive plan. Slowly lowering his output and focusing on defense. He held tight and took the beating, even letting his angel get clubbed to death.

He gritted his teeth and waited, patiently for the second time that Gojo ran out.

When Gojoʼs mana hit zero, Korah sprang into action with an unorthodox move. Gojo had a barrier spell in place to defend himself in that situation, but due to Korahʼs plan, it failed.

The move Korah used threw all of Gojoʼs defensive plans into a loop; he healed him instead of attacking. The barrier wasnʼt designed to reject beneficial spells and those allowed the healing in before breaking, itʼs a one-use spell but could pretty much block anything, and it got wasted.

Gojoʼs eyes and ears healed, and the first thing he saw and heard was the hand sign and the word ”DIE”

It was but a fraction of a second, but Korahʼs divine dominion took over, and Gojoʼs mortal life vanished.

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”Youʼve transcended mortality, itʼs near impossible to see a mortal stand to a god like that.” The angel pointed at the countless heavens, ”Pick and choose.”

”Come to mine.” From the side, a six-armed blue-skinned woman said with a smile, that was Kali, the goddess of orphans and destruction. ”You might be faithless, but Liliana isnʼt. Sheʼll end up in my heaven, so come here so youʼll two ends up in the same place.”

Gojo looked at the heavens at his right and then turned to his left, seeing other plans of existence.

”Those are the plans of torment. The nine hells, the deepest abyss, the grey wastelands of hades, and the chaotic soup of Limbo, youʼve earned a right to the heavens, you donʼt need to worry about them.” The angel said with a passive face.

Gojo looked down and saw the mortal world with Korah walking away from his corpse, specs of golden lighting flying everywhere toward him. ”I see...those are the particles of holy magic. They form inside his faithful and then go to him, that is how the gods get their immortality and infinite energy.”

”As long as we have faithful people, we never die.” Kali smiled, ”And as long as they pray, we never run out of energy. Of course, based on the numbers, the more a god gets the stronger they become.” She waved his hand toward her heaven, ”Come.”

Gojo turned left with a faint blue glow in his eyes.

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Arad lifted his tail, looking at the massive labyrinth as he looked for a spot to hit. There was really nothing he could do as it shut him off and his stones couldnʼt possibly pierce it. He instead tried to figure out how it works and create something to pierce it.

As he was thinking, he stopped and his head jolted to the side. The stone at the tip of his tail fell off as his purple-glowing eyes fixed on the horizon. His scales rattled as sparks of magic started flicking through his wings.

Korah took a step forward and teleported away, he left Gojoʼs corpse where it dropped. He didnʼt have time to deal with him; he had to hurry and kill Eris. Jordan might be a powerful demi-god, but he could get the job done faster.

He landed a fair distance away from Merlinʼs labyrinth and looked at it with a stunned face. ”What a massive amount of magic.” His stunned face shifted into a smile, ”Jordan must be struggling. But it canʼt be helped.” He stepped toward the labyrinth, his divine magic had already fully regenerated and he felt better than ever. Gojo gave him a real scare, but killing him had given him a newfound confidence.

A yellow light flashed from the desert and Korah saw his shadow dancing. He looked to the right toward the desert only to see a massive bolt of lightning falling from the sky.

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”Peopleʼs prayers...” Kali said with a smile, looking at Aria, ”Are only worth as much as the god they pray to.”

”A creature that feeds off those prayers canʼt be worth more than them. They looked down on the insects yet arenʼt worth the dirt they walk upon.” She waved her hand, Gojo had already left.

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^What is that?^ Korah gasped, but it didnʼt take him a fraction of a second to realize. Compressed magic, something massive was in there. As he looked, a massive explosion erupted in the desert, shattering the ground all the way to where he stood. As the lightning and mushroom cloud of ash, smoke, and lightning reached the heavens, a massive beam of light flew straight at Korah.

He immediately used all of his power to defend himself, conjuring a massive barrier. ”The hells?” This power wasnʼt divine, so it was not from the gods, but from another mortal. He looked back, and quickly growled, ^The Glamon and Koliony empires are behind me...I canʼt have them burned.^

As the beam grew stronger with each passing fraction of a second, Korah twisted his shield backward to deflect the beam upward. Everything between him and the explosion in the desert had burned into ash, leaving nothing but a titanic line of burning ember and fire. ^No regard for life, pure destruction.^ It was clear to Korah that whatever shot that, it wasnʼt human and doesnʼt consider anyone else when attacking.

Where Arad stood, the mountain he had built a hideout inside had already evaporated. With his claws, he gripped on his wrists, crushing them with a roar. His void gushed out violently as he compressed matter around him, standing in the middle of a burning ball of raw energy.

All sanity had slipped away, and he could only see the bastard ahead of him. Tales of large cities and kingdoms burned by a raging dragon were common, especially among red dragons. In a fit of blind anger, raw violence, and the primal urge to take revenge, dragons thrive. Doma tried to calm Arad down, but she got quickly put in line. One wrong move or a word, and heʼll stop seeing her.

Arad can go fight Korah in his draconic form, but that would mean death to anything remotely close. If Aradʼs breath reached Korah all the way from the desert, there was a high chance heʼd eradicate a few cities with a stray attack.

To reach a compromise where Arad can go fight, and not destroy everything like he did chasing Vorvadoss, she suggested a plan. This stupid cursed body. It had to go.

As Korah looked at the destruction around him, he sighed, ”Itʼll be bad if he killed Eris before me.” With a single wave of his hand, he summoned four angels. ”Youʼll do. There is a monster in the desert, go and stall it, kill it, or whatever, I donʼt want it bothering me for the next ten

minutes.”

”Look!” One of the angels pointed out. A shadow was standing among the ash and smoke. A tall humanoid monster covered in black scales with the head of a dragon, purple magic dripped from his eyes and between his scales as lightning crackled all the way from his wings to the tip of its tail. It was clear at a glance that he had some black fur growing alongside his spine and forearms, with large vampiric fangs.

”DIE!” Korah immediately growled. If itʼs a mortal, this should be the end.

In the next moment, Arad roared at the ground, blowing the whole area in a massive

explosion several kilometers wide.

The labyrinth was sturdy enough to handle the blast, but the cities were nearby. As the people saw the explosion being far too close, and several times the size of the previous one, their coming death became engraved in stone.

”Dig It!” A vampire screamed. One of Aradʼs spawns as he stood in the middle of the city. Doma sent them beforehand, and they could only do that as Jackʼs eclipse was still up. ”Itʼs ready!” The other vampire yelled, he was an earth wizard in life, and had dug a massive hole in the ground.

Even more vampires rushed across the city and split into two halves, one half tried to form a barrier to protect the city, and the other snatched every human they could and threw them into the hole. Since they didnʼt have any time before the blast arrived, the vampires smacked anyone who could use magic and forced them to help maintain the hole. That was their only

shelter.

The vampires werenʼt afraid to die in the blast, theyʼd only return to Aradʼs blood. But Doma had warned them that itʼd be a huge problem for Arad in the future if many humans died and that sheʼd blame them for it.

In the middle of the burning explosion, Korah gasped as Arad grabbed him by the neck. ”Why...didnʼt...” Before Korah could finish, Arad bit his face off and unleashed another full- power breath into the open throat, which caused a second massive explosion.

Gojo had ripped his eardrums and blinded himself so Korah couldnʼt kill him with his authority, on the other hand, Arad didnʼt need to do that. And that was only for one reason, he

was too angry to understand.

Just like how an enraged man canʼt comprehend words or reason, Arad has turned into a wild monster that canʼt be reasoned with. He doesnʼt understand speech, doesnʼt see anything in the world besides the thing pissing him off, and that thing must not exist.

The vampires protecting the cities gasped, ”Damn it! Another blast, canʼt our lord calm down

a bit?” One cried.

”Look! Itʼs not just two, there are more!” Another pointed out. One explosion after another, Arad was fighting Korah in the heart of countless kingdom-destroying blasts akin to [Ho- white Nova]