The dragon's harem

“So first, how are you doing?” When Arad first walked into the living room, he found Isdis standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by everyone else.

The massive room looked small, and it made Arad realize that he might have a bit too many wives. But he didn’t mistake that the room was literally bigger than it was before, like twice the size.

“I don’t know. Why do I feel like I’m in trouble?” Even Arad felt nervous with everyone staring at him, especially since he could sense their thoughts, and most of them had the same thought in their heads. Especially Merida who was an inch away from punching Isdis aside and jumping at him.

Aella shook her head in the back. “You aren’t in trouble. We were worried about you. Even though we knew you should be fine.” Looking at her face made Arad calm down a bit. Out of everyone here, she had the tamest of thoughts. She wanted to jump at Arad and get a deep, long, and passionate kiss, which was sweet.

What made Aella more endearing is that she wasn’t colder than everyone else. She was thinking of having him suck her toes right here and now, but the moment she saw him, she kicked that thought away to focus more on his well-being before her own desires.

Since Arad stared at Aella a bit too long, Zephyr flew out of her hair and kicked Betty from his shoulders with a gust of wind, then took a seat on his head. “He won’t die. We all knew that, and even if he did, he would end up in Kali’s heaven. So, we’ll get him back either way.”

Strangely enough, Arad was surprised to notice Zephyr having lost a lot of her magic. Fernanda’s fight had cost her and the other spirits a lot. To Arad, he was glad she wasn’t as injured as Gaia.

“That is my chair!” Betty pointed at her with a growl, and Zephyr smiled back at her. “Ho? Then get me off.”

Arad lifted an eyebrow, wondering when he became a chair. Not that he cared; all of his wives could sit on him whenever they wanted, especially if they were going to sit on his lap.

Betty sighed and disappeared from where she stood. “You’re sitting on his head, and I’m on his shoulders. You didn’t need to kick me out.” She was already back in her spot before anyone could notice.

What everyone noticed, though, was that Zephyr had suddenly become naked, with the words [Arad thief] written all over her body. That handwriting belonged to Betty. Also, now Arad had the line [Belongs to Betty] written on his forehead with lipstick.

Zephyr looked down with a nonchalant face. “You’re fast.” She swung her hand and wiped Arad’s forehead clean with a gust of wind. “He is OURS! Not yours.”

Isdis walked toward Arad. “You two, stop fooling around. We’ve got more important things to do.” Arad hoped it wasn’t more paperwork.

She then looked at everyone around. “Starting from next week, we’ll start the crowning ceremonies. Basically, each of the queens would get a day to dress and be paraded through the city with Arad to show her to the people. The process might take a long while, so until we’re done, everyone here is on a vacation.”

Arad was happy it wasn’t paperwork.

Aella, who was in the back, smiled. “Well, not just the queens, everyone else beside the maids and servants will be paraded as well. For the order, it’ll be based on convenience. For example, Cerilla and Jasmine would be left for the end since that would need coordination with the two elvish kingdoms.”

Cerilla looked at them, “I know this might be new to you, but I sent a letter to the wood elves. They’ve been hiding in their forest for centuries now, but I think they have to come into the new world.” She smiled, “I got a reply quickly, and they said they’ll send a royalty to join Jasmine and me.”

Jasmine waved her hand. “So, in short. She got the wood elves to join the empire as well, besides the high elves and dark elves.”

“Of course, I won’t be included.” Kali approached with a smile, still in her little girl form. “I can’t be exactly paraded in this form, and humans would die or panic if they saw my true demonic form.” She tapped Arad on his leg. “So, only the demons in the abyss would know. We might even do a parade there.”

She licked her lips. “I wanted to show the demon lords a nice show.” Arad could sense a dark malevolent will from her, and he wasn’t looking forward to whatever horror she was about to unleash on the demon lords in the abyss.

Gamond, who was sitting in the back on the couch, having one of the dragon maids polish her toenails, waved her hand. “By the way, Isbert said that Kory and I don’t have a party in her world, she’ll bury this empire beneath nine layers of snow.”

She pulled her foot from the maid and looked at her nails. “Wrong! You messed them up. This is the tenth time.” She made her nails grow again and gave her foot back to the dragon maid. “Work slower and try to get them perfect. Just like how I taught you.”

The maid was one of the drakains that Lola, the chromatic queen, gave to Arad. Gamond was teaching her how to polish nails and do some beauty care for the queens.

“What? It will be hard to parade anyone in that cold world.” Arad had been in the cold snow as a human for a while now, so he knew how harsh Isbert’s world would be for mere mortals.

Before Gamond could explain further, Lunara spoke. “Yeah, could we have something on the moon as well? The Moon Hares also want something there.” She smiled, “I can have them draw our flag on the moon, that would be a flex on every other kingdom.”

Sena smiled, “Mom also asked me to do something in hell, but I told her to forget it.” She jumped from her chair and approached Arad. “So, we’ll deal with the details. You can rest for this week before we start. First, Merlin got the bath redesigned into a labyrinth. You’d be surprised how much she improved the place.”

Sena’s hand moved quickly, but before she could grab Arad in a certain place, Selica pulled her back by the hair. “Keep your hands to yourself for now.”

Arad was surprised. Out of everyone here, Sena was the only one who could resist his mind-reading. But she instead showed her thoughts to him more clearly. She was horny, too horny in fact, and wanted to drag him to the bath with her for some fun. But Selica got in the way.

Selica, on the other hand, worshipped Sena, and she was a bit jealous. She didn’t want Arad to have Sena for himself, unless she was there as well.

Arad then looked around the living room, and he could already sense the change. Normally, the private quarter had one king room, twenty other rooms, a kitchen, a bath, and a living room, all spread throughout two floors. But now, Merlin had spawned a labyrinth and merged it with the entire quarter, making the place bigger on the inside than the outside.

Now, each floor was almost ten times larger with more rooms, and there were more than fifty floors. On top of that, the individual rooms were also expanded into vast halls, and Merlin had even managed to fit in a whole open layer of deserted wasteland.

To Arad’s eyes, this was clear: “We aren’t in the same private quarter as before; this is a labyrinth that mimics it.” This was Merlin’s magic, the one she almost failed to control once.

Hearing him, Merlin smiled and walked forward, grabbing him by the hand. “I’ll give you a look.” She said that, but in her mind, Arad could clearly read her train of thought. She wanted to take this chance and teleport them away to a private place where they could have some fun.

She noticed him looking at her thoughts, so she cleared her mind and replaced everything with a recent memory of her playing with herself, screaming his name, and the maids looking at her with disappointed stares. She had missed him a lot, in more than one way.

Arad and Merlin disappeared for a second, and Isdis took this chance to send all of the maids and servants who came to check on Arad back to their duties. Arad and Merlin, on the other hand, appeared in the middle of a dusty living room that looked to have been abandoned for a while. The only clean thing around was a massive gate of solid gold and gems.

“This is the old living quarter, the one that exists in reality. As you can see, I moved everyone into the labyrinth. Now, even if the castle were to be fully destroyed, those inside would remain safe.” She approached the golden door and touched it. “Sorry, but I went behind your back and grafted this door to your stomach. So, the labyrinth we were in is technically located in a dimension inside you.”

^And I want you to be inside of me.^ Arad heard that thought clearly, but he ignored it, looked at the door, and tapped it. “I don’t understand. What does that mean?”

She smiled. “Well, my darlin. We need to first strip down, then head to a nice place where you’ll…”

“The magic, and this gate.” He stared at her, and she sighed. “It means that if someone came here and destroyed this golden gate, thus destroyed the labyrinth, everyone inside won’t pop back up here in the mortal world, but instead they’ll be dropped inside your stomach. Which is a safer place.”

“That was a good decision.” Arad touched around and frowned. “But this gate is mundane.”

Merlin smiled, “So you noticed?” She tapped the ground. “The actual labyrinth door is the size of a fingernail, and is hidden inside this floor. Of course, I used a random spell to hide it, so even I don’t know where it is. I’ve seen how scary mind-reading spells are, so that is a precaution.”

She looked at him with a smug face. The voice in her head screamed. ^Read my mind as you like! I’m an open book, and legs!^ Arad had to find a way to calm her down.

When Arad looked around, his void eyes almost instantly spotted the true gate, which was hidden inside one of the walls. “Your spell couldn’t hide the door well. Since it is a gate to a massive spatial dimension, it leaves a trace that void dragons can notice with ease. An Abomination like Vorvadoss and Nyar won’t miss it either.”

Merlin gasped. “Wait…you can find it just like that.” She frantically rubbed her head, “AHHH, and I thought I hid it well. Now I have to revisit this part as well.” At that moment, Arad was shocked by the hundreds, if not thousands, of thoughts, ideas, and theories on how she could shift the magic that flooded her mind in that second.

“You don’t need to stress it out.” Arad tapped her on the shoulder, “What you made here is more complicated even for me to understand.”

She shook her head. “Not at all, this is just a copy of your stomach. But I exchanged size, capacity, and raw power for details, intricacy, and nuance.” She waved her hand. “For example, you can make a room of pure void that crushes and digests anything inside it, and I can use the same mana to create a small box, which contains a doll house with furniture and decorations. What I made is smaller, less powerful, but more useful and convenient.”

“Since I’m here, we should be relatively safe.” He looked around, “Let’s go back. You can think about this later.”