The dragon's harem

Chapter 899: Not Following The Lesson

As Arad saw Kayden teleporting while accelerating, he wanted to mimic him so he could keep up. But using [Void Step] at this level while still under Taurus was easier said than done. One fraction of a second of latency and heʼll get sliced apart and die.

Arad took a stance as his body flew back in the air, with one finger he pointed at Kayden, a large smile on his face. ”This is what you think, demon!” Pink tattoos started spreading across Aradʼs arm as a faint giggle escaped his mouth.

Kayden flew after Arad, ignoring the clone for now as he had already sliced him in half. What he wanted was to land a strike on Arad to knock him out. But at this moment, he could sense the curse swelling up inside Arad, it only took a fraction of a second, activating faster than Aradʼs acceleration.

Curses always come with a benefit and a bad effect. The one Arad used was suggested by Doma, and it was quite a simple curse. [Blind Runner] As the name implies, youʼll be able to move twice as fast, but youʼll be blinded while you move.

Arad kicked the air with his foot, flying back toward Kayden at double the accelerating and top speed. In a fraction of a second, he had broken the sound barrier several times, reaching a top speed of around 6000 m/s {19685 feet/second} {1500m/s base speed, doubled by [Taurus] and then doubled again by the curse.}. In that one-thousandth of a second, Arad had already reached Kayden and was standing on his back, swinging a kick at his neck at full force.

Kayden looked up, turning his blade upside down to slash Aradʼs foot before it hit him. Due to his demonic vision, he had already noticed that Arad was blind, but something seemed off. The young man he was facing no longer looked young.

Arad had hair growing on his arms, chest, and legs, even his face had developed a thin beard. He looked more and more like Alcott by the second, but that hair wasnʼt just there for no reason. Now that Arad had become blind, he used his lycanthrope curse and partially transformed, leaving him with more body hair. That sensitive hair was growing on his already sensitive scales, allowing him to use a powerful and very accurate sensor. When objects move, they move the air around them, and his hair can pick that up, allowing him to effectively see while blind.

Kayden teleported behind Arad while swinging his sword, he aimed once again to cleave Arad in half. With a deep grunt, Arad twisted his back and caught Kaydenʼs katana with his hand. When someone teleports, they leave an empty spot in the air that his hair can sense, and the opposite happens when they teleport, the air around the area where they are about to appear expands, and this is how Arad managed to know where Alcott was teleporting even when blind.

By quadrupling his top speed and accelerating to it in the blink of an eye, Aradʼs moves had begun to reach an unhuman level, allowing him to even surprise Kayden. The limits of his power were still unknown, and Kayden could only keep pushing Arad harder and harder, trying to force him to draw more power.

Kayden stared at Arad who caught his blade barehanded, if this was a real fight, he wouldʼve already sliced off his fingers. But now, heʼs trying to push Arad beyond his limits and thus is limiting his own power to Aradʼs level. He canʼt pull the katana from Aradʼs iron grip.

Arad looked at him, standing tall with his head slightly tilted back. ”As I expected, youʼre trying to match me in physical power to show how I can use that same amount of power.” The veins on Aradʼs fist bulged as his bones creaked like twisting metal.

CLING! With his thumb, Arad broke Kaydenʼs katana. ”To move faster, the muscles must push the body forward. That means they need more power.” He looked at Kayden with dead glowing purple eyes, his thin beard dancing with the wind as the sun flashed behind him.

For Aradʼs speed to increase this much the curses and constellation primarily affected his strength. Right now, he was almost four times stronger than before. Almost immediately, he swung the nunchaku quarterstaff at Kaydenʼs face, trying to smack him down. But that move immediately failed as Kayden let go of the sword, spun down, pulled another one, and cleaved Aradʼs arm that held the nunchaku quarterstaff.

”A dragonʼs cub trying his best. Unless you stick to the lesson, you arenʼt beating me today.” Kayden said as he disappeared from Aradʼs vision, slashing him five times at the same time. By hardening his flesh into the broken blade, he fixed it, and by teleporting his sword while rapidly accelerating it during the attack, his slashes seemed too multiple as the blade could almost exist in different places at the same time.

But that wouldnʼt have been enough to suppress Aradʼs rampaging violence. Using his severed arm, he swung at Kaydenʼs chest. But when the attack was supposed to land, it missed as Kayden had already teleported away in the middle of dodging. Kaydenʼs techniques easily surpassed Aradʼs horrific speed and strength, putting him back on the defensive.

Even when Aradʼs clone joined in with the same power, the two of them still couldnʼt keep with Kayden without teleporting with him. The absolute demon of destruction wasnʼt going to let a dragon less than a year old derail his lessons.

In a few minutes, [Taurus] and [Gemini] timers had run out and Aradʼs body couldnʼt maintain the curse enchantment on his body any longer so his base speed dropped back to 1500m/s. Kayden noticed the sudden drop and immediately went for a deadly blow, the best way to force Arad to learn is by pushing him into a corner and forcing him to adapt. Kaydenʼs katana hit Aradʼs neck and slashed down, cutting the spine and the blade turned up, aiming at the brain. In the fraction of a second that the katana started accelerating, Aradʼs brain went into panic, death was coming, and there wasnʼt much that it could do.

There was no time to form magic, and even [Void Step] was useless, there wasnʼt enough time to teleport the body away into a safe spot. This was a checkmate, and Arad didnʼt seem to have a way out.

But at that moment, it clicked, this wasnʼt the first time he faced a situation like this. He had already found a solution, and he shouldʼve already had it ready.

The blade blazed through Aradʼs skull, cutting it with a splash of red blood. Kaydenʼs demonic eyes looked at Aradʼs body, taking him only a fraction of a second to determine that he didnʼt kill him. To anyone else, that mightʼve been a surprise with such a fatal injury. But Kayden knew he knew what kind of being he was facing now.

”You and this fucker... Always put me through hell...” The body of a thinking kid emerged from Aradʼs open skull, Chuzuke stared at Kayden with a twisted, angry face, pointing his fingers forward as his eyes sparked red. ”BANG!” Aradʼs body exploded into a massive fiery explosion, conjuring a massive mushroom pillar of crimson fire.

Like a splatter of blood in the sky, Aradʼs brain fell from the heavens, regenerating back into a full body in the blink of an eye. If he could teleport his whole body, heʼll just teleport the brain and stomach, and use that to regenerate, all while leaving his body as a dummy and a bomb. Arad stood naked in the air, his body covered with the eyes of the vampires inside him, dripping with blood as Zia emerged and sat on his shoulder. He looked down with a passive face, exhaling the burning hot air inside his legs into a massive gust of smoke.

”My lord, that was a close one.” Zia said with a smile, ”What in the hell is that demon?”

”An absolute demon. This is fear, thatʼs good then. This is what it feels like to be a normal man facing a demon.” He said, looking as Kayden appeared to be still standing in the same place, the best this nuclear explosion could do was sherd his kimono. It didnʼt even leave a scratch on his skin, and even the curse of death {Radiation} didnʼt seem to be harming him in

any way.

”How did you resist it; the curse of death is what Iʼm talking about.” Arad asked.

”I cut it, like everything else.” Kayden replied with a passive face as if it were normal, ”Those small things flying in the air, I cut them all.” He lifted his arm up, ”Let me fix a misunderstanding, do you think your sneak explosion did this to me? Youʼre wrong.”

Six arms emerged from Kaydenʼs torso and another pair of heads appeared out of his neck, ”My kimono merely tore apart since I momentarily shifted back to my true form. Unlike you, I donʼt have scales to wear.”

Blood lord Arad is facing off the demon of absolute destruction, who shall come on top?