The dragon's harem

Chapter 1268: Barely Using Any Power

”So they wanted you to kill me?”

Arad didnʼt expect them to attempt such a move. He thought they would try to drive him away or do something to turn Tyal against him, but they have actually made an attempt at his life.

But what surprised him more was that the servants Tyal brought had two assassins among them, and not just one. While most assassins worked for the Black Cloud, AKA Tyal, Malina seems to be a free assassin who takes on contracts directly.

You would think that a solo assassin without any backing would fare poorly and would get no contracts at all, but it seems that thanks to Malinaʼs power, she is able to complete those contracts with relative ease.

He looked at her with a smile. Dragonʼs shapeshifting and color-changing scales were perfect for stealth missions, especially when coupled with their overwhelming power. Imagine a sneak attack, a backstab by a dragon straight through the spine and heart.

Malina had several decades to master her shapeshifting and now can almost disguise herself as anything she wants, Titans, humans, elves, and even unanimate objects like chairs and barrels.

She had even just taught Arad something when shapeshifting as a dragon. He should be able to turn into anything with a smaller mass than himself, but his power would be reduced by the same percentage.

A hundred-meter-tall titan has only 1% of his mass as a full, one-kilometer dragon.

That was the rule for metallic dragons. Arad is a magic dragon, so the nature of his shapeshifting is slightly different.

To test it, he flew away with Malina into the mountain range and found an isolated spot for them to use.

Arad and Malina had shifted into small humanoid forms to be able to sneak through the Titans unnoticed, and they were successful, reaching their destination without anyone noticing.

The two of them quickly found a nice and dry small cave beneath a massive frigid cliff to hide inside from the storm. Malina looked around them at the empty cave, noticing that it was the home of a clan of Yetiʼs just days ago, but those monsters mustʼve perished in the monster flood.

Arad opened his arms, ”What do you think? This is my natural human form. I didnʼt put any effort into creating or maintaining it.”

She approached him with careful steps, ”Do you mind if I touched you a bit?”

He shook his head, and she put her hand on his chest and closed her eyes. The magic flowing through his body was the base of the shapeshift, and it was truly astounding, the natural shapeshift of void dragons.

Unlike dragons, who carry as much percentage of their power as their size in the shapeshift, Arad seemed to carry far more power since he has a human soul as well. But that extra power is only for the human form, not anything else.

”Right now, you should be carrying around twenty percent of your full power. That means your natural shapeshift is twenty times better than metallic dragons.” She was already amazed, but what Arad said next made her immediately pull her hand away with a terrified face.

”The hundred-meter dragon isnʼt my true form. I made myself smaller with size magic.”

She indeed based those numbers on that form.

”Iʼm a kilometer-long dragon without the tail.” Arad looked around, locked the area of a twenty-kilometer around them with a void barrier so no one would notice them, and walked out of the cave to shift into his draconic form.

When Arad transformed, it was as if the world itself was drowned in darkness. The shadows grew deeper, the storm and snow faded away, and all of the mana in there turned dreadfully cold to magic, almost refusing to obey all commands that didnʼt come from the void being that just appeared.

The moving onyx slowly lowered his head to look at Malina, ”This is my true dragon form, but keep in mind, Iʼm still far weaker than my peak.”

Malina stared at him for a long while, gulped, and walked out to transform as well. With a spark of lightning, her body morphed and twisted into an iridescent, hulking steel mountain with wings made of sharp blades.

A steel dragonʼs whole body was covered by thick and sharp steel plates that served as its scales, and the wings themselves were made of hundreds of feather-like sharp blades. The head was decorated with two silver horns, and her eyes flashed with a vibrant green light.

But, she was small, far too small than Arad, being only a little bit over a hundred and fifty meters long without her tail.

”Iʼve never seen a steel dragon before. You donʼt look like the gold or silver dragons. They looked like their bodies were sculpted from a single solid mass of their metals.”

Arad looked closer, and she took a sky step back. ”Gold and silver dragons are an exception. Their scales are too small. Thatʼs why they look like that.”

Malina couldnʼt take her eyes away from Aradʼs smooth and glistening body. It looked like it was carved from a single precious stone, a titanic black diamond that was cut and refined by a master to make it sparkle like the night sky.

”This is probably my strongest form, but just a quarter of my power.” Aradʼs deep voice pulled her back to reality and away from her own fantasy.

Malina felt a cold chill run down her spine as Aradʼs beautiful scales lost their color and turned matt, his eyes burned with purple, red, and golden light, fur grew from between his scales, an extra pair of wings burst from his back, bat-like and frail-looking, and another pair of arms emerged from his chest, those ones muscular and hairy, ending in long sharp claws.

Aradʼs head didnʼt change that much. If one didnʼt count the extra pair of black horns that emerged from his forehead, pointing forward, the four vampire fangs, and that all of his teeth became sharper and longer. He even had a second row of teeth emerge from his gums, and his tongue seemed to twist a bit as it hid a poisonous spike.

Aradʼs tail split into three tails. A thick, muscular, and black draconic tail. A smooth, long, and sharp leathery tail with a poisonous needle at the end. And lastly, a furry wolf-like tail.

That was Pricolici Void Dragon, Aradʼs strongest form, without starting to be radioactive. Of course, he wonʼt pull the death curse now. Otherwise, Malina would die by just existing close to him.

”And I have three more incarnations, but they arenʼt the same. Two are draconic and can assume this form, while the other two have to stay human.”

Arad was using Gemini and his two souls to get four incarnations. Which meant he had two dragon incarnations from his draconic soul and two human forms from his human soul.

But, since all of the incarnations were him, he could switch them at will, so even if a human incarnation was facing someone in battle, Arad could instantly change it into a dragon incarnation and transform.

If Arad wanted to go all out on someone, he could pull two Pricolici Void Dragons and two Pricolici humans to overpower almost anything.

”Sorry, I was wrong.” Malina said with a passive face, ”Your shapeshifting ability is the same as metallic dragons. Your base power is far higher than I ever expected.

Arad was indeed barely using any power in his enlarged human form.