The dragon's harem

Chapter 873: Bringing Them Back

Arad lifted the thugʼs leader by the head and turned him toward himself, ”Whoʼll pay for the broken window?” He glared at him.

The leader reached into his pocket and pulled some gold coins, ”Iʼll do it...”

Arad took the gold and threw him out of the shop, ”I donʼt want to waste time cleaning blood, scram.” He growled at them and they ran away.

”Sebas leaves for a few minutes and they come...I guess we need to tighter security.” Roberta sighed, looking at Arad with a smile. ”That should be a merchant called Dimiris if Iʼm not wrong.” She approached Arad, ”Can we stop by the castle to inform the royal guards? Theyʼll deal with him.”

”Yeah, weʼll get Bob to fix the window. Are you all right, mother Lyla?” Arad nodded and approached Lyla.

”Yeah... I just hope they wonʼt trash the shop while weʼre away.” She tilted her head with a worried face.

Arad nodded, ”I see... Dorian,” he said and a thin man emerged from his shadow and bowed. He was wearing the clothes of a priest with a necklace shaped like a dragon on his neck.

”My lord...” The man kneeled, ”To think Iʼll be called.” He said with an excited face, his hands shivering.

”Get ten people and guard the place. Youʼll deal with a builder and maybe some guards, but I donʼt want any thugs to trash the place. And, donʼt kill anyone, especially thieves. They know not to attack shops related to me, but newbies might get ahead of themselves.” Arad said without even looking at him.

”As you order, I shall not spill a single drop of blood. Do I get permission to call the guards to take the thugs to jail?” He said with a passive face.

”Of course. Iʼll inform the guards,” Arad turned and gave the vampire priest a bottle of blood. ”Use this in case any of you get harmed by the sun. Itʼll protect for a few minutes if Zia is right.” Arad then turned back to Roberta and Lyla, ”Heʼs a trusted man, we can leave the place.”

”My Lord! Your words are a waste on me.” The vampire priest smiled.

Arad approached Roberta and Lyla, ”Did you get all of your things?” He looked at the bags they were carrying, and they indeed nodded. Arad walked forward and touched their shoulders, ”First stop, the castle. Are you used to this yet?”

[Void Step] ZON! Arad teleported with them to the castle, but they landed alone. ”Where is Arad?” Lyla gasped, looking around with a surprised face, ”We really went there in the blink of an eye.”

”There he is...” She pointed at the massive dragon standing beside the castle, Arad was glaring down at the captain of the royal knights.

”Sebas stopped guarding Lyla and Roberta for a few minutes and thugs attacked them. Do you want me to skin you all alive? Why arenʼt you doing your job, Iʼd expected at least ten knights with each of them.” Arad growled at him.

”Lord Arad...With Sebas by their side, we didnʼt expect theyʼd need more guards than him. And to think there was some...” The captain started gasping, getting yelled at by a god-eating dragon wasnʼt on his schedule today.

”Excuses, I donʼt want to hear them. Youʼre only getting paid because Roberta is managing finances and getting the kingdom enough money to survive, neither you nor anyone in this castle would get bread to eat if she got harmed.” Arad lowered his head, growling with steam gushing from his fangs. ”Most of this castle was built by Miraʼs hand, the beds you sleep on, the stairs you climb, the cabinet you keep your clothes in. Lyla is her mother, why in the nine hells arenʼt they guarded at all times?”

”That...” As the captain started failing to even breathe, let alone explain himself, Arad sighed. ”Iʼll leave a battalion of vampires to guard the castle, theyʼll work in the shadows while you knights work in the sun.” Arad lifted his claw and moved it above the castleʼs wall.

From the shadow of his arm, Zia emerged. ”My lord, what orders do you have for me?” ”Take two thousand vampires and build a base in the castle, guard the place from the shadows, and work with the knights and royal family. Inform me if anything happened through the blood link.” He looked at her, ”Get anything that you need.”

”My lord.” She kneeled, ”Can we get heavy armor made for us? Weʼre quite powerful as vampires so wearing them wonʼt be an issue, and itʼll also allow us to fight in the sunlight.”

”As I said, get anything that you need. But, donʼt harm the innocent. If you need blood, hunt bandits and criminals around my domain. But make sure that only killers get killed.” He extended his arm out to allow her a safe shadow to the castle.

”As you order my lord, I shall bring the hammer of justice down.” She smiled from ear to ear, standing up with a gush of magic sparking around her, ”By blood, fire, and metal, the bandits, the thugs, and the heretics all shall burn skewered on spears like pigs.”

”Just donʼt go too crazy.” Arad sighed and she disappeared into the castleʼs shadows with the two thousand vampires Arad left for her.

Arad looked at the castleʼs walls and Baltos was there looking at him, ”I assume you were listening.”

”Yeah. Iʼll get the guards to work with them for better security.” Baltos smiled, ”And sorry, I shouldʼve assigned more guards to them.”

”Donʼt worry about it. As long as nothing bad happens, itʼs okay.” Arad looked at Roberta and Lyla, ”Iʼm taking them with me for a few days, I guess you can keep things running without Roberta for a few days?”

”Of course, my ministers are at least that competent. But I wonʼt dare say she isnʼt crucial; I hope sheʼll be back in a week if possible.” Baltos smiled with a slightly pained face.

”I doubt the trip would last that long, but her getting a weekʼs rest every now and then would allow her to stay in better shape.” Arad lowered his palm for Roberta and Lyla. He then lifted and put them on his neck, which already had saddles, albeit they almost didnʼt fit and had to be strapped with gravity magic.

”Is this safe?” Roberta looked at Aradʼs head.

”Yeah.” He flipped his palm upside down with them standing on it, but they didnʼt fall. To them, the origin of gravity was his palm. ”The same is true for my neck, once you sit, you shouldnʼt feel worse than a normal horse. But some get scared of height, so be careful.” ”Be safe.” Baltos waved his hand as Arad slowly trotted into the forest.

”Youʼre going to run there?” Roberta asked.

”Iʼm not heavy, am I?” Lyla looked at Arad, ”I know youʼre a dragon and all, but donʼt exhaust yourself.” She patted his neck.

Arad giggled, ”Iʼm stronger than I look.” Said the massive, almost thirty-meter-tall bodybuilder dragon with enough might to shake mountains, but he was in fact, stronger than

he looks.

Arad ran across the forest like a big cat, his wings tucked to his sides. With a single leap, he reached the first mountain and jumped to another, quacking the ground all the way to Alina as he moved at an extreme speed.

Roberta and Lyla cried on the back of his neck, terrified at how he was moving. In their life, they never expected to get such a ride, a trip that should take days, he was making them in a single leap. A massive flock of wyverns scattered from one of the mountains the moment Arad landed, and they all looked at him, terrified.

Seeing the wyverns, Arad expanded his wings and flew into the sky. Behind him they followed, basking in his presence. ”Where are you all going?” Arad asked the wyverns.

Their leader, the oldest of them pointed west with his head, ”Hunt, food, migrate.” Wyverns migrate every several years to fight new hunting grounds, which is why they donʼt kill

ecosystems.

”Itʼs on my way, remain close.” Arad smiled as he flew, and the wyverns kept close to him as they flew above the clouds.

As the wyverns flew with Arad, they sang and roared, chanting to the glory of the dragon they flew beneath. Even monsters had a hierarchy to them, and dragons were at the top almost everywhere. To the wyverns, it was like commoners who always traversed the harsh lands alone, finding a royal parade that allowed them to tag along, enjoying the protection of the

kingʼs presence.

Lyla looked at the wyverns, even one of them would send cities into emergency protocol, all of those were at least A-rank monsters, but all of them flew carefully beneath Aradʼs wings. And when accelerated to save time, all of them would land on his massive back. Roberta tried to touch one of them, and they all were extremely calm and docile, even though wyverns were known as raging monsters. As nature dictates, the wyverns could tell with a single sniff, those two are females, and since they are sitting on the dragonʼs back, they only

expect one thing.

In around four hours, Arad delivered the wyverns to their new hunting ground and reached the beast kingdom, landing in the forest near Iron Snake Lake Village.