The dragon's harem

Chapter 1928: It’s Two On One

Qliphoth’s sapling was burned to charcoal, and the entire moon elves’ village had been reduced to nothing but a crater, a cursed land where life could no longer thrive. The only being standing there was Arad alone; even Linda had to evacuate a fraction of a second before he detonated.

Arad gazed upon the dead sapling, and his eyes quickly shifted to the gasping fairy that was just born from the charred bark. As she gasped for air, her lungs were filled with radioactive ash, and her body slumped down onto the still red-hot stones. In seconds, she died and was reborn once more.

Arad watched her, but for the second time, he sucked her and the burned stump into his stomach before she could ingest any radiation. When they landed on the fresh ground of Arad’s inner world, the fairy finally hit the ground and cried in pain, unable to endure the sensation of the charred sapling behind her.

Of course, Arad knew that he didn’t drag two things into his stomach, but three. He had dragged Qliphoth’s sapling, her guardian fairy, and the abomination. The lord of time couldn’t hide anymore, and the ground beneath the tree split apart as he emerged.

Unlike Vorvadoss, who looked like a pale divine demon of verdant flames and magnificent build, this one looked more like a humanoid beetle with pale flames burning beneath its skin, and a soul so radiant with incandescent flames that it was almost hard to look at.

”Another vessel? First the stag, then the fairy, and now this beetle? What are you? A parasite, a creature of time, or a shapeshifting horror?” Arad glared at the abomination and got a grin thrown back at him.

”Yaggdytha, the Lord of Time and the Incandescent Flames of Ruin. I was trying to absorb and control Qliphoth, but I never expected someone like you to come and ruin my great plans.” The abomination took a step forward, glared at Arad, and then lifted one finger to point at him.

Arad smiled and his eyes turned fully black. ”You call being a parasite on the universe a great plan? Can’t your kind make anything?”

”That is how life works.” The abomination returned the smile. ”This isn’t the first universe we consumed, and it won’t be the last. Resistance is futile.”

The sky around them shifted, and from the horizon, two flocks of dragons emerged.

From the east, Metallic drakainas flew in an organized swarm, a thousand of them, and they were all heading toward Arad and the abomination to help in the fight. And from the west, the one thousand chromatic drakainas made their way like a swarm of hungry birds of prey, and it only took them selves to perch atop the mountains and roar, declaring their participation in the fight.

From the radiant sun, an endless flock of armed angels descended from the heavens, all violently disgusted by the abomination, and seething with so much bloodlust that they could’ve been mistaken for devils. It didn’t help their case when vampires emerged from their bleeding wings, and rained down around Arad and the abominations like a storm.

And from the depths of the ground, a demonic gate cracked open, and from it, an endless horde of deformed and terrifying demons crawled out, a tide of abyssal energy that turned the ground black and painted the mountains red with blood. At their front stood Merida and all the other demon lords.

”An impressive army...” The abomination looked around with a smile and then chuckled. ”But, they are shaking in their boots. One touch from me and POOF! They are erased from the flow of time.” He clenched a fist and swung it in front of him.

He was right; everyone present could tell at a glance that this abomination was unlike anything they had faced before. He was far more powerful, and already nearing the level of an Archon, but also having control over time that could allow him to one-tap kill anyone he touches. It didn’t matter if it was a god or anything else; if they got flung out of time, they were gone.

The sensible strategy now was to talk and buy time until Kali returns, or at least get help from Amaterasu directly, since that would be the safest bet. But could they even do that? Could they buy enough time?

Arad took a step forward, and then another. He stared at the abomination and then replied calmly. ”Who said they are here to fight?”

Arad clenched his fist, and gravity magic rampaged, pulling the abomination’s face down toward his fist as he punched in a space-tearing attraction. As the punch landed, space itself cracked, the threads of time couldn’t handle the gravity, and the abomination fell to his knees, looking shocked.

Just like how the abomination was surprised, all of the angels in the sky glared down with excited, yet terrified faces. They didn’t know Arad had all of that power in him. They knew he was powerful, but not this powerful.

”They are here to watch. We two are enough to deal with you.” Arad growled as he glared down at the stunned abomination, and the horror immediately noticed the burning blue eyes glaring at his back.

Yaggdytha, the Lord of Time, finally noticed that Arad never intended to fight him one-on-one, and he had never wanted to drag this army of his into the fight. As he got kicked in the neck, he growled and cursed.

”Damn it.”

Gojo walked toward Arad with a smile as the abomination rolled away, and looked at his brother with a smile. ”What’s up with that candle?”

Arad cracked his fists. ”An abomination that controls time, and he was hiding inside a sapling of Qliphoth in the moon elves’ village, it was near the wood elves.”

Arad’s eyes burned purple, and Gojo’s eyes flashed deep blue. The two of them approached the now standing abomination, and in the next second, the entire area exploded into violence. Arad grabbed the abomination by the face, blocked a punch, and allowed Gojo to get a kick in, and then locked the horror into a choke.

Gojo clenched his fist with a grin and swung it at the abomination’s torso. ”Hold him still!” One punch after another, Arad used his overwhelming strength and weight to pin the abomination down for Gojo to deal the damage.

The abomination tried to reverse time and escape their grasp, only for them to both pull the fabric of space and prevent him from forcing the threads of time to move. While void dragons can’t directly control the fabric of time, they control the fabric of space, and thus could affect time.

But what made it even harder for the abomination to fight back was the space itself. Each time he was about to establish a hold on time, it would swap. Arad and Gojo constantly passed the abomination between their stomachs like a hot potato, each of them never holding him long enough to get infected.

One punch, a kick, and a drop, then swap to Gojo’s stomach. While being burned in that empty void and torn apart by the gravity field of a black hole, the two were already raining down at him with energy beams. The abomination would growl and try to manipulate time to get the upper hand, but at that moment, Gojo would throw him back to Arad’s stomach, preventing him from ever getting a chance to use his power.

”Damn it...” The abomination frowned as the two pummeled him to death.

[Elemental Expansion: Distorsion Del Tiempo(Distortion of Time)]