The dragon's harem

Chapter 864: Deus Ex Machina

Lilia pulled a hand-sized humanoid steel golem out of her pocket and lifted it before Arad, ”Let me introduce you, this is the current...”

”Iʼll speak,” the golem jumped from her hand and expanded in a crackle of lighting into the size of a human. As he landed, the ground beneath his feet cracked as he stared at Arad, his eyes sparking with power.

”Have you heard of the true neutral plane? The world of law and order, the paradise of the machines, Mechanus. Iʼm the version 1000.01.3 of their mechanical god, Millenniumous.” His voice crackled like arching lightning, whatever was standing before Arad didnʼt have a soul.

”Nope, never heard of you.” Arad replied and immediately swung a fist at Millenniumousʼs face.

Millenniumous remained still and didnʼt move a spring, and Aradʼs fist stopped right before his face. ”Why donʼt you dodge or block?”

”By my calculation, you werenʼt trying to hit me. The blast would destroy the university and that halfling would be pissed.” He pointed back at Betty, ”And, youʼve already noticed, right? The one standing before you isnʼt me, but a mere soulless puppet controlled from far away.” He giggled, ”I didnʼt move my anus from MechAnus...”

Lilia immediately jolted him with a bolt of lightning, ”Shut up! That isnʼt funny, even to me. It doesnʼt help that your lower torso is Mechanus itself.”

She then looked at Arad, ”He was once called Primous, heʼs the machine god of Mechanus. You mightʼve known him with one of his countless names, with each version it changes 1.1 is Primous, 2.1 is Secondous, and so on.”

”Still, Iʼve never heard of him.” Arad waved his hand and ripped the ropes tying Betty and Luminous. ”What brought you here?”

”I was the cosmic police before void dragons came to be. My endless army of steel golems would march across the world to find and eliminate cosmic threats.” Millenniumous said, lifting his hand and trying to mimic humans, ”Now, Iʼve taken a back seat and Iʼm only doing detective work, spying across the outer world with my disposable golems to monitor abomination activities.”

”What does that have to do with me? Iʼve gone to the outer world once, but Iʼm not going there again.” Arad replied with a passive face. He wants to lay low and enjoy his time with his wives, going outside might mean him getting cursed again.

”Jordan is still alive. Vorvadossʼs cultists teleported him to the outer world.” Millenniumous said with a flat tone, ”Youʼve beaten Vorvadoss so much that he gave up on life and fell into an abyssal depression. The cultists have already transferred Vorvadossʼs power into Jordanʼs dying body.”

”What do you mean by that? I killed Jordan with my hands.” Arad gasped.

”He was getting power from Vorvadoss which made him a perfect vessel. While Vorvadoss is dead for now and Jordan has taken upon his powers, when Nyar, that man clad in yellow comes back, heʼll resurrect Vorvadoss.” Millenniumous pointed at Arad, ”Before that, Iʼm certain Jordan would seek you with vengeance, Iʼve already lost a thousand bots trying to eliminate him.” He pointed to himself, ”Like this one Iʼm speaking to you through.”

”By the way...” Lilia pointed at Millenniumous, ”Donʼt let his size fool you, this bastard stores massive war golems inside a storage spell and pulls them out to fight. This one bot is almost half as strong as Tiamat.”

”I have billions of bots, but I canʼt activate them all at the same time as I lack the energy to support that. But I can send around a thousand of them at the same time.” Millenniumous looked at Arad, ”Iʼve come here to warn you. Itʼs my job as the cosmic intelligence to report to all of the cosmic police. Your kind, the void dragons are the ones to hunt monsters on the edges of the world, and Iʼm the one to investigate outside it.”

”This matter concerns me more than anyone else so...” Arad looked at him.

”Yeah, Iʼm only informing you, unless you want otherwise.” Millenniumous started floating, ”And...by the way... I mightʼve dropped an inevitable after you...donʼt die. Think of it as a training.” He shrunk down and flew into Liliaʼs pocket.

”Thatʼs it for me. Donʼt die...” She disappeared in a flash. Betty and Luminous finally could speak, ”Run!” Luminous growled.

”Itʼs here!” Betty yelled at him.

The officeʼs door slowly opened, and a maid stared from the crack at Arad, her steel eyes flashing with lightning.

Luminous clapped her hands together and teleported away with Arad and Betty. ”Grandma, that thing, what is it?” Betty growled, ”I never sensed such magic in my life.” ”Inevitable are forces sent to hunt stray gods and demigods, this thing is what wouldʼve eventually come for Korah and Jordan.” Luminous looked around. ”Forget shaking them off, the only option is to destroy them.”

”I still donʼt understand, that Millenniumous hunk of steel sent it?” Arad looked at them.

”Yeah. Usually, they are like cockroaches, kill one, and ten show up. But since this is a training from Millenniumous and Lilia, I doubt that more would come out. You only need to defeat this one.” Luminous smiled, ”Void boy, youʼve finally started seeing true danger. What level are you?”

”Havenʼt checked in a while, but Iʼm sure Iʼve already surpassed 100.” Arad replied and Luminous stared at him, her light flickering, ”Are you serious?”

”Yeah...” Arad nodded.

”Fine, run. Iʼll deal with that thing.” The sky above them rumbled as large black cracks expanded, the maid fell down from the sky engulfed in fire and lighting. The earth around them rumbled as she stood up.

”Where are we? Weʼre far away, right?” Arad gasped.

”A demi-plane like the one your brother blew up.” Luminous giggled, ”She even followed us here. It seems the rumors are true, they could move freely through dimension.”

At that moment, the air stopped moving and Arad stood still. Everyone, even the inevitable slayer could feel it, the dreadful aura growing around Arad. He slowly turned toward, her, a cube in his hand.

”You can get inside?” He said, his eyes burning with his magic.

”I can.” She replied.

Arad immediately pointed at the cube, ”Get inside and pull her out. Now!”

”Make me.” She replied with a passive face, lightning exploding from her back. Aradʼs body flashed in magic as he transformed into his draconic form, towering over her. ”Get her out, scrap bucket.” He lifted his claw and swung it down, ripping the inevitableʼs left arm.

She didnʼt even flinch, her eyes slowly moved to look at her arm, ”Damage detected...order rejected, initiating destruction mode. Targetʼs health, 100%, mission completion 0%.”

As lightning sparked from her shattered arm, the broken pieces flew up and melted together as her arm repaired itself in the blink of an eye.

”My wife is locked inside, Iʼll not play human games with you. Either get inside and pull her out, or Iʼll rip you apart right here and now.” Aradʼs body started lightning up with energy as he started crushing matter, charging for a massive blast.

”You donʼt have administrative authority, only Millenniumous.” Her eyes spazzed around as she searched the collective library of the world of order for a suitable word. ”Deus Ex

Machina.”

Luminous grabbed Betty and ran away, ”Heʼs about to blow off!” she gasped as they zipped away, radiating and chasing them at the speed of light.

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”Do you think heʼll win?” Millenniumous said, standing on Liliaʼs desk at the top layer of the

mageʼs tower.

”You can watch the fight through the inevitableʼs eyes. Do that.” Lilia stared at him with a bored face, ”I too want to watch.”

”Thatʼll take precious computing power from her. Iʼd rather not interfere a single bit to get accurate data on him.” Millenniumous waved his hand, ”Precision is key to all machines. Thatʼs why our world is called the plane of law and order.”

At that moment, the tower shook with an impact and Lilia gasped, ”Whatʼs going on? The outer barrier shattered?” She waved her hand to conjure a panel of magic, but Millenniumous pointed at the window.

She slowly turned her head and saw Aradʼs massive eye glaring at them with burning rage. His head slowly moved, and he spat the destroyed inevitable through the window at them. ”Millenniumous...” Arad growled, ”You can freely teleport through dimensions?” Arad shifted back into his human form and jumped inside.

”Wait...you defeated her?” Millenniumous gasped, ”I didnʼt get a notice of her destruction...” He looked at the sparking hunk of steel before him, stunned.

Arad didnʼt bother replying and pulled the cube where Zephyr was trapped, ”Get inside and

get Zephyr out. Now.”

”We machine can move, but we canʼt take anything living with us. Even if I can get in and out,

I canʼt pull her with me.” Millenniumous replied and pointed at the destroyed inevitable, ”She canʼt pull her out either.”

”Then how do you get inside? Iʼll pull her out myself.” Arad growled.

”First, answer me. How did you beat her?” Millenniumous growled.

”I juggled her back and forth through the curse of existence. In a world where neither time nor

space exist, she seemed to fail at everything. She instantly stopped working and I crushed her

to bits.” Arad replied it was Domaʼs domain.

”All of my machines use time and space and coordinate and references to act, learn, and

predict attacks. If you ripped them out of those two theyʼll get confused and itʼll take too long to correct the errors.” Millenniumous giggled, ”Found a new bug.”