The dragon's harem

Chapter 892: Baby Steps

Just like Luminous, Hati had a vast, seemingly endless space that she could retreat to. Her demi-plan was as large as the eyes could see, a vast and endless wasteland of dry dirt and a massive rocky mountain with very little vegetation growing in the shade away from the burning sun.

Kayden stood a fair distance away from Arad and stared at him with a straight face, his katana unsheathed beside him. ”Iʼll start easy, the lowest level of swordsmanship that I could still remember.”

Arad pulled the adamantine sword and took a stance. ”Youʼre really thinking that low of me? Iʼll not fall that easily.”

”I doubt it.” Kayden breathed in, the veins on his body bulging as he suddenly disappeared. Aradʼs right arm flew away alongside the adamantine sword. Kayden was beside him; he had just finished a downward slash.

”I was going for the neck, but went for the arm when I noticed that you couldnʼt react in time.” As Kayden spoke, Aradʼs eyes jolted to the side, a collection of [Ho-white Nova] rushing forth, almost twenty of them.

CLING! The Novas all disappeared in the blink of an eye, sliced beyond belief by Kayden. ”Magic is too slow to harm me.” With an upward slash, he cleaved Aradʼs other arm with ease.

”That speed...” Arad gasped as he regenerated his arms.

”Found the first mistake youʼre making. This isnʼt speed, itʼs acceleration.” Kayden lifted his arm and dropped his sword, ”Now I owe Chad a drink. Youʼre useless.” He disappeared and punched Arad in the face hard enough that he sent him flying through one of the mountains. ”Forget about swordsmanship, Iʼll have to teach you how to move. Youʼre indeed still a baby that hasnʼt learned how to walk.” Kayden started jumping in place, ”Keep your body relaxed, donʼt tense your muscles. What matters is acceleration, not speed. Speed is what you know, how fast you can move. Acceleration is how much your speed can increase through time.” He started suddenly disappeared as he jumped from one side to another, ”My speed is o, then I suddenly accelerate to the speed I need. I go from 0 to a hundred in a shorter time than it takes for my enemyʼs brain to process, which makes my speed seem infinite to them.”

Arad sat up, the mountain crumbling on his head as he glared at Kayden with an enraged face, veins bulging on his forehead as he seemed to be about to burst. His eyes burned purple as magic gushed from his body. He grabbed a massive boulder, and it disintegrated at his touch. Totally outclassed, this was the first time in his life that he couldnʼt sense a path to victory. This attitude, this feeling, it was the same. Arad stood, and the mountain shattered around him. This was the same when he trained with Mira, he holding back so much power that it becomes obvious.

Kaydenʼs slashes could cut straight through his scales and any defensive magic he had. Aradʼs most powerful spell, the [Ho-white nova] twenty of them were cut down in a fraction of a second. Even though Kaydenʼs fist felt heavier than anything Arad had ever felt before, he knew it, that man wasnʼt using a single drop of his ocean of power.

With a single leap, Arad rushed at Kayden as fast as he could. He was angry, enraged at the situation. He had seen this man many times, and not in any of them he had thought of him to be this strong. This man is to the god, what Alcott is to the dragons. A monster they canʼt hope to match.

As Aradʼs fist closed on Kaydenʼs face, Kayden swung his fist up, hitting Aradʼs forearm in the blink of an eye. ”This is how you throw punches.” Kayden said, and Arad suddenly found himself sucked into another mountain, his jaw broken.

”And this is how you should be throwing them.” Kayden said, his fist extended forward. ”Do you know how to throw jabs?” Kayden threw a few jabs. ”Relax all of your muscles and throw your fist as fast as you can, only tense it up at the last moment if you decide itʼs an attack and not a feint.”

Kayden stopped throwing punches, ”This way youʼll reach perfection. All of your attacks start as feints. If the target dodges, they remain as feints and you could follow with a hard hit. If they didnʼt, just clench your fist at the last moment, and boom, your feint became a real punch.”

Kayden threw a punch and it exploded in a shockwave. ”Now, do that with all of your body, every muscle, every bone, every organ. Accelerate to your top speed instantly and learn how to walk, void baby. This is todayʼs lesson.”

Arad immediately bounced back at him from the mountain, flying even faster than before with a burning fist.

Kayden deflected Aradʼs fist and smacked him in the face once more, sending him flying back. ”Acceleration is the change in your speed through time...youʼre still far too slow at it. And no, using time slowly wonʼt help you against me.”

A massive lightning bolt of magic fell from the sky, exploding the mountain where Arad got thrown. From the light and fire, he emerged roaring in his draconic form, a raging Vampiric Wyrmwolf.

”You look more similar to me than I expected. Six eyes but only four arms instead of six.” Kayden compared Aradʼs vampiric Wyrmwolf form to his true form. ”Usually, becoming a large target is a stupid thing. But, since we arenʼt focusing on that today, Iʼll excuse it as long as you can accelerate decently.”

Arad stood on his hind legs, roaring as his brain crackled with lightning from how many signals it sent through his gigantic draconic body. This wasnʼt something that he learned from Kayden, but a technique taken from Nina, pushing to the limit of what his ultimate form can perform.

It was the same concept that he used when he first realized that his heart could rumble, beating even faster than normal to push his body to the limits. VROOO00000000000000M! As Aradʼs heart rumbled like an engine, he landed on all six of his limbs, sparks of lightning sparking from his brain, rushing through his spine and illuminating his whole body from the tip of his tails to the sharp peaks of his razor claws.

Aradʼs bones twisted, his muscles clenched as hard as they could, reinforced by his lycanthropic flesh. The blood in his veins hardened under the control of his blood magic, contracting like muscles to increase his explosive power.

As Arad burst forth with a single leap toward Kayden, the ground where he stood burned to ash under the impact of his jump. From full stop, he accelerated all the way to his top speed of over 1500 meters a second, faster than bullets, and his entire near-mountain-sized draconic body flew forth. Nothing this large should be able to move that fast, it was a horrifying sight that no mortal should ever witness.

Arad swung his claw at Kayden, pulling all of his might into that single hit. This was the quickest that Arad had accelerated in his life, but...it was still not enough.

Kayden swung his fist, hitting Aradʼs massive head. Aradʼs punch naturally missed. Kayden needed to jump to reach Aradʼs face after all, he wouldnʼt be standing in the same spot waiting to be punched.

As Aradʼs lower jaw exploded from the sheer impact happening at a blinding speed, his body seemed to be flying away just like before. But then, his claw that was punching toward Kayden, shifted to aim at the ground by his side.

With the blood flowing out his lower jaw burning, Aradʼs whole body spun around using the momentum from his claw strike and Kaydenʼs punch, using his extended arm as an anchor to the ground. All of the joins in his spine burned as he used them as leverage to accelerate

further.

From Aradʼs claw, the punch on his face, his head spun, moving his neck, moving his whole body, the rotation rapidly amplified with each spinal joint, reaching the tip of his tail which accelerated toward Kaydenʼs side like a whip.

Kayden lifted his forearm to block Aradʼs strike, but he was still sent flying to a mountain. The same way he did to Arad before.

Arad stared at the mountain as it crumbled when Kayden hit it. ”Got him...at least...once...” He was already panting, in that one strike, he used all of his strength. Hopefully, that man is... ”That was a good one.” Kayden said, standing beside him. He already returned. ”Itʼs been a while since someone hit me this hard. I honestly didnʼt expect you to do it this quickly.” Kaydenʼs eyes shifted toward Arad.

”Itʼs been less than a year since you were born.” Kayden said with a stern face. ”Youʼre still a baby and an angry one at that. I taunted you a bit, telling you to stand and walk. In a fit of anger, you actually stood and ran a few steps ahead, but immediately fell on your face.”

Kayden cracked his neck, ”It means nothing if you canʼt maintain it. Now to make sure you can walk all the time, like you should be. Youʼre a void dragon, you donʼt move through space. You should be the space itself.”