The dragon's harem

Chapter 863  Back To School With a New Title

As the festival in Gojoʼs land continued, change was taking place in the university. Words of Uranus taking over the massive desert spread like wildfire and some people started panicking. It didnʼt take a single week after the fight of Korah/Jordan for the news of it to reach the students, they couldnʼt believe that such a monster existed.

White Gojo and Alcott were there, and most of the credit went to the named monster, Uranus. His title quickly changed from the kingdom destroyer to the divine eater. A monster so powerful that it hunts and feeds upon the gods.

”Did you hear?” Matilda said with a tired face, ”They say Uranus punched a god to death and ate him. Those people are ridiculous, such a thing canʼt happen.” She sighed.

”Gods canʼt be harmed by mortals…” Selina added, and slowly lifted her head, looking at Arad sitting before them. Itʼs been three weeks since the incident and his soul recovered enough that he can morph again into a humanoid form and his curse has finally settled down.

”I agree…I canʼt imagine, punching a god….” He could clearly remember when he bites Korahʼs face off. ”By the way…” He immediately tried to change the subject, ”About Jackʼs body modification, did you get anything?”

”I can surgically install a magic crystal inside his body, but I canʼt possibly guess how would his body react. Iʼve seen your research on the adventurer Gura, but that doesnʼt seem to help with how.” She searched through her back and pulled out the papers Arad had written for her.

Matilda looked at him, ”Thatʼs an A-rank barbarian, how did you manage to talk to her? I mean, barbarians are already hard to talk with, they get enraged on a whim. I canʼt believe you managed to have a full interview with her, even get blood samples without a fight.”

One student stared at them from the side, ”Barbarians love big muscles. She was struck dead by his look, heʼs as tall as the doors and as wide as them.”

”Are you stupid?” Matilda growled at him, ”Barbarians value strength, not look. She wouldnʼt care less if heʼs huge or as thing as a broom.”

”But it helps. Doesnʼt it…Just look at him.” The student smiled, ”You see him and you can know a punch from him would hurt.”

”Iʼm not punching anyone unless they attack me first.” Arad said with a smile. ”Gura is surprisingly nice and easy to talk with.”

”Still…” Selina stacked the papers and pushed them toward Arad, ”Gura herself doesnʼt know how her crystal works, she got it in a freak accident. I need to research more, itʼll help to experiment a bit…but that… how should I say it…” She scratched her head.

”Not fond of experimenting on humans. I can catch you some bandits.” Arad tilted his head.

The three stared at him with a passive face, ”Them being bandits doesnʼt make it right. What are you thinking about?” Matilda sighed, ”How about people who wonʼt die and are used to pain, like werewolves and vampires?”

”It wonʼt work, those are magically built different than humans. Can you get me to meet the person who installed Jackʼs arm and liver?” Selina asked with a serious face.

”Ah, his name is Cain. An old herbalist living in Alina.” Arad smiled, ”Iʼll take you to meet him on the weekends.”

”Everyone! Get on your seats, Iʼm starting the class.” Lucia walked toward her desk and lifted her large book, tapping her head. ”Your classmate Arad here has been out on a long break due to an injury, please share your notes with him. We donʼt want him to be falling behind.”

Arad looked at her, ”About that, I already finished everything.” He said with a passive face.

”Finished what?” Lucia gasped.

”I borrowed Selinaʼs notes yesterday and revised them, I even finished copying them to my notebook.” He showed Lucia his notebook, he had already finished writing over fifty pages.

”Hold up, one night? Everything?” She rushed in and looked at his notebook. It was faint, but since she taught a lot of people she could tell that not all pages were written by the same person. The people who helped Arad tried to mimic his handwriting, but it was obviously done in a hurry.

”Well…can you make us some of the potions and alchemical concoctions that we went through? Iʼll bring everything you need from the lab, you can see it as a small test.” She smiled.

”Of course.” Arad nodded. Even though he had the vampires in his stomach help. Apparently, some of them were scholars and apprentice alchemists so he had them help, there were even people among the bandit vampires who knew how to forge documents and handwriting.

As Lucia went out, Matilda turned toward Arad, ”Are you sure? One night isnʼt enough to go through everything. I donʼt know how you got everything written down, but live memory wonʼt help in potion making.”

”I can do it.” Arad nodded with a smile.

”Forget about that.” The student from before looked at Arad with a smile, ”I want to know, what kind of thing injured you like this? We havenʼt seen you since the beaver incident, donʼt tell me those little wood eaters got you.”

”A huge demonic monster was in there. I managed to beat it, but got injured pretty badly.” Arad looked out the window, ”The beavers are fine.” He could remember, he had moved them into his territory after coming back. For now, they are working to help develop his land under Miraʼs orders.

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”Look, my lord Arad…” Flatail smiled, ”Hundreds of beavers beating their wood all day long for you and Lady Miraʼs sake.” He tapped the ground with his tail, ”Iʼll beat it over and over until I die.”

”You mean hammering. You were asked to build a dam, but a more civilized one…” Arad pointed at the beavers hammering large wooden poles into the river to block it.

”They are hitting the wood with a hammer so itʼs a beating…like you donʼt say hammering beavers, beaver doesnʼt get hammered, unless itʼs sir Alcott…he gave us wine and said getting drunk if called getting hammered.” Flatail titled his head, ”They are pouring wine on their wood.”

”I donʼt know…” Arad said with a slow voice, ”I know how to speak, but not why words were chosen. But forget about that, since youʼre building a dam, what about the river after it? The farms still need water.”

”About that…” Flatail lifted his hand and shouted at the beavers. ”AHHHHHHHHHH!”

They all looked at him and shouted back. ”AHHHHHHHHH!”

”They say the wooden pumps are already deployed. The responsible beavers would start pumping their wood as soon as the river starts to dry.” He waved his hand, pointing at the wooden water pumps on the sides.

”I see…” Arad smiled, ”If everything is going fine, Iʼll go back. Just work as Mira and Isdis ordered. Iʼll come check on you each week. Iʼve already informed Ignis about you, she wonʼt hurt you.”

”Thank you…” Flatail said with a passive face, that little red drakaina attacked them the moment they started building the dam. She thought they were trying to damage wildlife and burned their dam to ash.

Even a red wyrmling is still as dangerous as a large lion, that breathes fire and is intelligent.

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Inside the class, Lucia returned with everything and asked Arad to show off if he really learned what he missed, and to her surprise, he immediately made all the potions and concoctions. Unlike everyone else, his learning speed seems to be out of the chart, as if his brain isnʼt human.

Several minutes after he finished, someone started knocking on the door. He could tell who it was by the smell, but Lucia couldnʼt. She approached the door and opened it up, ”Weʼre in the middle of the class, who is it?”

She looked left and right and saw nothing. She closed the door with a sigh, ”I thought this university is full of adults, who play such pranks at this age…”

The door immediately got kicked open and Betty growled at her, ”Am I that short? You didnʼt even see me?!”

”Sorry!” Lucia cried, ”I didnʼt see you…youʼre…” She was about to say too short and quickly changed her mind, ”… suppressing your magic, right…I didnʼt feel you.”

”Yeah…” Betty sighed and turned toward Arad, ”Come with me to my office, I got someone that wants to meet you.”

”Who is it?” Arad tilted his head, he could tell from a single glance that she was troubled. ”Canʼt you tell them off?”

”Itʼs complicated, just come.” She grabbed him by the hand and pulled him out. He couldnʼt sense anyone in her office from here, whoever they were, they shouldnʼt be too strong. ”Should I be worried?” He asked.

”Yes and no, it depends on how you talk with them. Please act respectfully as much as possible, sheʼs quite old despite her look, and can get easily triggered.”

They reached Bettyʼs office and Arad grabbed the handle. ”Listen, I know you donʼt like it, but be respectful as much as possible.” Betty made it clear, that the one inside is a problem. At this moment, Arad already had one person in mind, Bettyʼs grandma Luminous. From his few encounters with her, he can see why sheʼs a pain.

”Excuse me…” Arad walked inside the office, only to see Betty in her underwear, tied with a rope to the ceiling lamp and growling. Arad froze for a second… ”That isnʼt Luminous, or is she?” He had only seen Luminous as a ball of light.

”AH! The grandma? Sheʼs in the closet. This little Betty told me to fuck off when I asked to meet you, so I tied. The grandma came to save her, so I put her here.” The one standing behind Arad walked toward the close, her white hair slowly turning red. She opened the closet door only for a blinding light to gush out.

Arad could hear Luminous growling inside, she was tied as well.

”So, itʼs been a while, little boy.” Lilia walked toward the desk and jumped over it, sitting cross-legged as she stared at Arad with a smile.

”Youʼre that woman from the tower!” He gasped, clenching a fist, ready to smack her into ash.

”You might be surprised, but Iʼm not the one looking for you.” She smiled, reaching into her pocket. ”Itʼs an old friend of mine, someone who doesnʼt know how to joke.”