The dragon's harem

Chapter 1969: Trust Among Archons

”Care to explain why is AO back and no one is saying anything? Don’t tell me you don’t know.” Gabriella glared at Kali, and Kali stared back at her with a smile. ”Of course I know. I am Destruction.” She then shrugged. ”He is him, yes. But he still doesn’t have the power or mental fortitude to support his original power and vast consciousness.”

”You don’t want AO’s consciousness to override and erase Arad himself, you want them to either merge into one, or have Arad persist as AO’s new incarnation, as if he were reincarnated.” Gabriella surprisingly was smart enough to understand most of the story, and she quickly got a confirmation from Kali.

”Indeed. Arad and AO are like two carriages, one trotting across the road, and the other flying at blinding speed. We can link them, but the fast one would pull and rip the slow one’s part, destroying it. So our only option is to slowly nudge the slower carriage forward, increase its speed, and make sure it can one day catch up before attempting to link them.”

”So, Arad finding out would only increase the likelihood of the linking to happen on its own, and that would be bad.” Gabriella crossed her arms, and Kali nodded. ”By 80% according to the Fates. And if that happens, Arad, at that time being half-AO, would leap into Yog’s gate of forbidden knowledge after he violated several armies of the inevitable machines, and eventually cause Gojo to go down the path of chasing and saving him.”

Gabriella could remember them; she had seen them once before. The great machines created by Millennimus, the god of machines. They were titanic, humanoid golems of steel and lightning, like the ones Arad and Gojo saw in entropy’s world, but far stronger. They were the cosmic police, the ones responsible for hunting universal threats, deserters, and rogue divine beings.

”Several armies of those things?” Gabriella stared at her with wide open eyes, but quickly remembered that it was AO they were talking about, and that even now, he had the strength to twist her organs with a single punch.

”I understand, but we’ll need to keep him safe.” Gabriella glared at her, ”Normally, I would’ve switched to serving him immediately, but to keep it a secret.”

Kali shrugged. ”Well, at least I am a primordial concept, not any other god.” She tapped her on the shoulder. ”By the way, did your bloodline awaken? I brought you here for that reason.”

”It did, but even I can’t understand it well now.” She looked at her hand, tried to sense the divine power inside her soul, and quickly realized that she needed at least a few weeks to figure things out. If even she was struggling with such meagre power, then would indeed break under AO’s might.

The two of them returned to the bath, and there they found Diana on all four, having Arad pounding her from behind while pulling her by the hair. While Kali was indifferent, Gabriella paled a bit. Diana wasn’t any archon, but an angry, powerful, ruthless, and quite the stoic and dreadful commander that tore through hordes of abominations in cold blood.

In the war, she had never seen her smile or speak anything that wasn’t a military command. Just walking by her side, and seeing her talk normally with Kali or Arad was astounding enough, but to see her make that twisted and horny face, moaning and screaming while getting pulled by the hair, and even begging for more... felt utterly uncanny and disturbing.

The other two archons seemed just as surprised as Gabriella herself, but at least she knew that he was AO. If someone could make that demonic archon general makes such a face, it had to be such a powerful being.

”How, did it end up like this?” Gabriella asked and Kali looked at her, then threw a glance at Diana. ”She was against it at first, then just went along with the flow when Mathilde started doing it, and now...”

”So she was just copying that foot-fetish archon.” Gabriella sighed, and Kali laughed. ”You aren’t wrong, those two were rivals for centuries now. Beside...” She pulled her back, and sent a message directly into her mind, telling her that Mathilde knows about AO.

That explained a lot. Mathilde had to have a reason to jump at Arad. Gabriella was now the same. At first, she didn’t want to do it, and was only keeping her word. But now that she knows that Arad is AO, she can’t help but want to take this chance and have some fun with him.

If AO were to fully wake up, he would most likely revert to his nonchalant, distant, and large-than-life state of mind. Gabriella’s only chance to get with AO is only while he is still Arad.

She immediately stared back at Kali and Eris. ”Can I do it as well?”

Kali pointed at Eris. ”Ask her.”

And Eris just shrugged. ”I’ll let you do it, but you’ll serve in the quarter from today onward.” She threw a glance at Kali, ”Can I have her? I don’t have any powerful archons.”

Kali thought about it. ”I don’t really know, archons are loyal and would rather die than leave their gods. Depends on whether she is willing to switch sides.” She looked at Kali, ”So? Want to serve Eris for the time being?”

”Don’t mind.” Eris didn’t expect that quick answer from Gabriella, but Kali totally knew that would happen. Before Gabriella knew that Arad was AO, she would’ve spat on Eris’s face for even suggesting that she leave Kali’s side. But now that she knows about AO, she doesn’t care which god she serves as long as she gets close to Arad. And now, Eris would allow that.

”Are you sure this one is loyal?” Eris asked with a worried face, and Kali burst laughing. ”Don’t worry about her, she is pretty loyal. It is just that with us two being Arad’s wives, serving the same house and family, there isn’t that much of a difference between us. I scratch your back, and you scratch mine.”

Gabriella approached them, ”You should form a pantheon where all of the divine beings in Arad’s harem pool their power together.”

Eris didn’t need to think about it for long. That was a solid idea. She could just imagine their combined power quickly giving them a solid footing in the divine realm. It would help her develop her heaven and expand Kali’s range of operation.

The two other archons suddenly pulled Gabriella back, and one of them growled, whispering in her ear. ”What are you talking about? You want that... we sucked him off, okay, but going all the way is just bad. We’re archons, we’re supposed to say virgins and pure.”

Gabriella nodded. ”I understand where you two are coming from...” She then put her hands on their shoulders. ”But, I’ll say this as your friend, sister in arms, and an equal archon who fought alongside you and other divine beings for untold eons.”

They stared at her with confused faces. ”What?”

She took a deep breath, ”I know you two don’t want to do it. But just go for it, spread your legs and be proud of it. You’ll thank me later.”

”Does it have something to do with what you and Kali talked about while you were away?” One of them asked, and Gabriella gave them a soft nod.

The two thought about it for a second and looked at each other. ”Fine, you’ll have hell to pay if we regret listening to you later on.”