The dragon's harem

Chapter 1001: How Could We Cross The Sea?

The assassin woman rushed to the innʼs basement and kicked the door open, jumping down the stairs with a single leap. Inside she found her sister tied up shibari style out and hanging down from the ceiling.

”Sister!” She rushed in to remove her gag, ”He did this to you?!”

”No, itʼs the woman with him. The one with red eyes.” She cried and soon saw her, standing before her sister. Long red hair, glowing red eyes, and a sinister smile on her face. ”Got a second toy?” Akasha giggled.

The sister pulled a sword and swung it at Akashaʼs neck, only for her to end up tied just like her sister in seconds. ”You two would get killed if you went back after getting caught. So can you now tell me who exactly sent you so I can make sure they wonʼt be there to kill you later on?”

”Who the hell would do that?” The older sister growled and the younger one confirmed after

her.

”And I thought the older one would be more reasonable.” She approached the young sister and moved her hair aside, ”See this beautiful clean neck of hers? And can you see my fangs?”

It was just then that the two assassin sisters noticed that Akasha was a vampire. ”I tried mind-controlling your younger sister to harmlessly get some information. But you two were fed a drug that prevents you from leaking information.”

”Youʼre a fiend?!” The older sister cried.

”A pure-blood vampire and Iʼm not going to waste time here. You two really seem to be powerless slaves following your masterʼs orders, or at least servants. Youʼve got no say in what youʼll do, which is a blessing that you canʼt even imagine.” She giggled, ”My lord clearly see the difference between the one giving orders and the powerless servants forced to follow those orders.”

She licked the younger sisterʼs neck and bite her, sucking her blood to the last drop. ”LET HER GO00000000000000!” The older sister cried seeing her sister spazz to death.

”I see...orphans picked up and trained from a young age to stealthy kill targets. Albeit your training seems to not have been enough when it comes to dealing with monsters like me and my lord. Youʼve got no family, no friends, just your job. This is all that you knew through your whole life, and would killed if someday you became useless.”

It didnʼt matter if the sistersʼ master died since there were multiple of him, it was a massive organization controlled by nobles and mainly directed by the kingʼs youngest princess.

After finishing the younger sister, Akasha shifted her attention to the older sister and sucked her dry as well. Minutes later, the two corpses started moving and coming back to life. She freed them, ”Now, youʼre clean and on a new contract. Youʼve got three rules.” Akasha lifted one finger.

”First, you canʼt say no to me or my lord.” She smiled, lifting the second finger, ”All of your memories, thoughts, and feelings are shared with me and my lord.” She giggled, ”And lastly, feel free to act like humans until you get orders.”

The younger sister looked at her hands and Akasha smiled. ”Come on, donʼt worry. I already know I can hear your thoughts. Say it to my face, youʼll feel better.”

The younger sister sighed, ”I wonʼt...weʼve just gone from being one personʼs slaves to anotherʼs slaves, same thing, different rules. But at least we donʼt have to worry about aging and growing weaker with time and getting abandoned or killed for becoming useless.” ”Yeah...” The older sister smiled, ”We only have the sun to fear and holy water...and...” ”Hold on a moment beautiful little ladies...” Akasha smiled, ”You still havenʼt fully woken up, or did you? Look at me for a second until your blood realizes it.”

The first one to realize who was standing before them was the younger sister as she was turned first. Her face paled and she lunged to kiss Akashaʼs feet, begging her to spare them. The older sister got confused for a second before her blood finally kicked in and she saw Akasha for the monster that she was. The woman standing before them wasnʼt any vampire, she wasnʼt any fiend.

The woman before them was the Ancestor Vampire, the crimson queen of the night, Akasha.

”Donʼt worry babies, neither the sun nor holy water shall harm you. Youʼve been born straight from my blood, you might be young now, but youʼre now royalty between vampires.” She turned and called them to stand, ”You only bow to me and to my master.”

Akasha disappeared alongside the two sisters and returned to Aradʼs blood with them. The two sisters werenʼt even named but were given numbers in the assassin organization. 1-26-24 and 2-26-24, after knowing that Arad asked them to figure out names for themselves.

Later on in Aradʼs room Mary and Ann returned with everything they needed.

”Iʼm going to start.” Echidna said as she stood beside Aradʼs bed, lifting her hands over him. ”Letʼs get it done.”

Her fingers flashed black as her curses slowly flew down like thorn vines to pierce his chest. ”I bet it hurts a lot...or I think it should...” She looked at Aradʼs face, ”Does it?”

”Kinda hurt a lot, but not something I canʼt handle.” He brushed it off like it was nothing. After getting hit with Dallaʼs slaps, nothing seems as painful. After knowing true pain, the stings of something like this feel like an annoying itch, nothing more.

”You arenʼt fun at all, are you?” Echidna sighed.

The next day quickly came back and Mesharra was walking around the dogs with a strange young man, the prince of the neighboring kingdom that came to marry the princess. ”So youʼre are saying sheʼs the one leading an assassination group, right?”

”Thatʼs what my informant says. Still have no evidence to back that up.” Mesharra looked at him and he giggled, ”For me...” He smiled, ”Iʼve got my evidence, itʼs called my eyes.”

He stopped and looked at the sea, ”She gives me the creeps, too sweet, too gentle, too good to be true. I knew something was off about her, bitch probably wanted to use me to spread the assassins across our kingdom as well.”

”So about the payment...” She looked at him and he nodded, ”Indeed, this information, especially coming from an inquisitor is worth it. You said you had something to smuggle across the deadly sea, what is it?”

”Something important that needs to get across as fast as possible, and safely.” She said as the two of them walked out of the docks and marched across the coast until they reached a hidden cave facing the sea.

”I was the one to see the princessʼs hand in marriage. Did you see her, black hair, green eyes, sheʼs quite the stunning beauty.” The prince smiled, ”But I was a bit put off when I saw her attitude, it creeped me out.”

”And now? How will you deal with her?” Mesharra looked at him and he giggled. ”Of course, Iʼll get her. Now that I know what she is, I wonʼt be scared of her since I know how to act.” He looked at the water flowing down the cave and a small boat was docked there with a woman sharpening her sword, she looked be a sailor.

”You still on about that royal princess?” The sailor glared at him and he smiled back at her. ”Yep.” His gaze shifted toward Mesharra, ”Itʼs now about whoʼs gonna get fucked, and whoʼs doing the fucking. I shall be the latter.” He pulled a black flag from the small box in the boat and threw it to Mesharra, ”Leave whatever you want to smuggle in this cave and cover it with the flag, my men would pick it up.”

”I didnʼt think you were a pirate.” Mesharra giggled, ”I wouldʼve cleaved your head if I wasnʼt under strict orders now.”

”Everyone has their shady business. And I hope your client will be a valuable friend in the future.” He looked at her, ”Believe me, pirates are more useful than assassins.”

Mesharra reached into her pocket and pulled out something small, throwing it to the prince. ”Said to give you this. We paid by information, but this is a bonus to make sure you wonʼt stab

us in the back.”

When the prince looked at his hand, it was a human fang, no, a vampire fang. He immediately recognized the marking on it, it belonged to the ancestor vampire Akasha. No one normally can get their hand on this, the ancestor vampire would kill them and retrieve it instantly. The fact that the monster isnʼt here to kill them means sheʼs Mesharraʼs client.

”Are you fucking serious?” He gasped.

”Youʼre smuggling a coffin.” Mesharra started walking away, ”You better not mess this up, or

a third person would be doing the fucking, Prince Jack.”

After Mesharra left, the prince pulled out a cigarette and started smoking, ”Shit Lacy, we got

a real one at our hands.”

”You think she is in that coffin? Akasha herself.” She mumbled.

”You bet, those fangs donʼt come out of nowhere. Theyʼre worth billions and directly controlled by Akasha. Weʼre moving a monster bigger than any Kraken or warship that we

faced.” He leaned at her, ”Letʼs get back to the ship, Iʼll talk with everyone.”

”Canʼt we refuse? Itʼs too risky.” She looked at him with a worried face.

”Too much money, reputation, and fame at the line to refuse. We get this job done and we got

Akasha backing us up, this fang alone is worth more than what we made in the past two years.” He looked at her, ”Weʼre getting to the big leagues Lacy, weʼre doing it now.” He smiled, his hand shaking, ”Letʼs go, we got a lot of work to get done.”

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When Echidna did her job and tried to balance Aradʼs curses, something strange happened. It seems that a normal human body doesnʼt have what it takes to endure the two curses in the first place. That is why Alcott remained sick for years while Arad being a dragon seemed unfazed by them.

Alcottʼs body slowly adapted to the curses through the years of sickness which gave him the

possibility to wield the two curses. But Aradʼs body now doesnʼt have the luxury of time, so Echidna had to take a slightly drastic measure.

With her curses, his body started going into a rapid metamorphosis to evolve enough to

handle the curses. The changes to his human body werenʼt that big, his body needed to have a vastly superior vascular system with more veins and arteries, thicker and denser bones, larger lungs, more muscles, and an evolved stomach to be able to digest flesh and blood. Echidna used her curses to force Aradʼs body to evolve by making several binding contracts. For example, As long as he doesnʼt move for five days, that spare energy would grow in his

veins.

The cumulation of her curses led to Arad being paralyzed, weakened, and fast asleep, and heʼll be like that for a whole week as his body evolves. To save time, the girls decided to start heading across the sea with him still asleep.

Arad wouldnʼt want to be indebted to any kingdom right now so Mesharra decided to hire the

pirates to smuggle him across the sea while they rode across the sea with Prince Jack on the

royal warship as guests. Since Jack is captain of the pirates, such a thing would be easily arranged.

To make sure Arad doesnʼt get stuck with the prince, Mesharra makes sure to use Akashaʼs reputation to make it seem like neither she nor Jack can control the situation. As she expected, the prince thinks that he, Mesharra, and everyone else are nothing more than pawns at Akashaʼs play table. They either be good pieces and survive, or be bad ones and get eventually

killed.

When Jackʼs pirates came to pick up the load, they saw the coffin covered with the black flag deep inside the cave. A black wooden coffin with silver steel reinforcements, a massive golden symbol of Yog on it, and a sentence written with blood and holy water.

[By Orders Unknown, Here Rests The Primordial Abyss.]

[Blood For The Blood Lord] ”Weʼre really doing it.” The pirates carried the coffin with shaking hands and put it on their

boat, transporting it all the way back to their main ship.

Back in the warship, The girls were sitting inside the ballroom with the other nobles and royal family, enjoying a musical performance. Echidna was sitting beside the window wearing a fancy purple dress, swirling her glass of wine with a large grin on her face. ”Weʼre really

moving up in the world, arenʼt we?” She looked at Mesharra.

”Just donʼt cause trouble.” Mesharra sighed.

”Are you ladies enjoying your time?” Jack approached them, ”I hope you found this place to

be at least a bit comfy.”

”It is indeed, Prince Jack.” Mary looked at him with a smile, ”I never expected the inside of a

warship to be like this.”

”This warship is made to transport the royal family. If it was made just for war then it would

be like a barrack.” His eyes shifted to the side where Ann was sipping her massive glass of

juice with a straw, ”And you little girl, enjoying the ride?”

”Never been on a ship before, it feels a bit strange.” She looked around, the whole place was

swinging with the waves.

He looked at Mary, ”So...you took that from her?” He asked with a worried face.

”Couldnʼt find it.” Mary sighed, ”Sheʼs good at hiding them.”