The dragon's harem

Chapter 1089: Blood, Fire, and the Sun.

Eris and the sixth ranked abomination clashed across the whole camp and tens of low-ranked abominations ended up getting killed just from the shockwaves of their fight.

In that fight, Eris managed to comprehend a few things about the abominations. Each rank is ten times stronger than the one before it. The first rank abominations are equal to a level 100 human.

This means that a maxed-out level 1000 human can only stand on equal grounds with a second rank abomination. This had made two things clear for her, the leveling systemʼs true purpose mightʼve been to nurture soldiers to fight against the abominations.

When Eris looked at her own system she realised that itʼs power was already fading away, melting back into the universe. As a demi-goddess thatʼs about to ascend, she does not need to waste Ariaʼs {The Overgodʼs Archon who grants the systemʼs power to people.} powers.

Besides someoneʼs natural power, anything else they get would act as a multiple additive to their might. Alcott is nearing level 1000 so thatʼs making him around rank two abominations, and with his vampire and lycanthropic powers he could rise one rank for each, standing on equal ground with Gada who was a fourth rank.

Looking at herself, she also has many sources of power.

She is a demi-goddess of murder with a full portfolio.

She is the vampire blood queen, which is far too powerful and almost twice as powerful as anything else she has.

She has purple dragon blood which is slowly transforming her into a true Drakaina.

She is a paladin of Amaterasu which also grants a lot of power.

And lastly, ever since she became a blood queen she could feel that another goddess has started supporting her. The red-eyed Akame, also known as Hel, the mother of the undead and vampires.

With everything combined, she can face sixth-ranked abominations, but this monster before her is always one step ahead, he is a bit stronger than her, not much, but enough to tip the scales.

After half an hour of constant fighting, Eris started to reach her limit. For now she had just used her plasma and blood magic to face the abominations. She could feel that both Amaterasu and Hel are urging her to use their power to fight, otherwise sheʼll end up dead.

”Capture her Alive! Sheʼll be our bargaining chip!” The six ranked abomination growled as he surrounded Eris with over ten fifth ranks. ”Give up woman and we wonʼt harm you.”

Eris growled, ^Should I run away? I can teleport back into the universe using my blood. Whatever this barrier is that seals the world, itʼs only blocking abominations. I can use my murder elemental expansion to kill them all, but if they managed to survive Iʼll be captured…^

A large smile crossed her face, lifting both of her hands, ”Iʼm only here to complain, donʼt send any more of your kind to my house, you arenʼt welcome.” Blood started dripping from Erisʼs hands.

”Blood summoning? No matter what kind of vampire you bring out, you wonʼt be able to get away.” The six rank abomination smiled, ”Sit obediently and you wonʼt feel any pain.”

DRIP! One drop of blood hit the ground. A sudden rush of power washed over the whole battlefield, causing most abominations to gasp. They could hear it inside their heads, a massive roaring beast.

The one who emerged from Erisʼs blood summoning was none other than Arad. ”Wait…” the six rank abomination gasped, but his head suddenly disappeared. Arad didnʼt seem to move an inch, but the abominationsʼ severed head was already in his hand.

”Huh?” The abominationʼs head gasped, not realising he was already killed.

Arad turned toward Eris with a worried face, ”Are you injured? What happened?!” Luckily she didnʼt seem injured. But that still didnʼt explain why she was here, what had happened that caused her to come here.

”They sent someone to our village. Over three hundred people were injured by maggots and one had been fully taken over by an abomination.” She said, and Arad patted her head, ”I get it. Leave the rest to me.” He lifted and sat her on his shoulder, quickly shifting into his draconic form and towered over all of the abominations.

The abominations abandoned the camp and tried running away as best they could, only to get snared by a powerful gravity wave and getting pulled back toward Arad.

Eris, who sat on Aradʼs back, gulped. The way he killed that six rank abomination…if he was serious in her fight, if he didnʼt hold back, thatʼs how she wouldʼve ended up. Arad didnʼt move to attack that abomination, he simply teleported his head to his hand.

^If that abomination knew that Arad was about to do that, he couldʼve easily resisted such a spell, but since he didnʼt, it knew it proved lethal.^ Not all abominations are immortal cockroaches, thatʼs hard to kill, which means that something is making some of them that powerful.

”Nyar was fatally injured by Kayden and the overgod and had gone into hibernation. He wonʼt be able to provide support for the abominations which make this the best time to strike back.” Arad opened his wings and magic flew out of them like the stars, [Elemental Expansion: Palace of Stars]

All of the abomination got sucked into Aradʼs expansion and burned away beneath the radioactive hell unleashed from the countless [Ho-white Nova]s that he had stored inside him. Erisʼs 100-meter wide purple sun would get easily swallowed by him like a piece of candy.

^This power…Arad should be at least comparable to a seventh rank…no, maybe even an eighth or a ninth rank abomination in power.^ She looked at the ground. Nothing was left, not even dust. Arad had burned all of those abominations and broken their remains into pure energy that he refined into one more [Ho-white Nova] that he then stored inside his stomach.

”What a lovely pair.” A voice called from behind them and the two gasped, looking back. Three women were standing there, smiling.

The one floating above everyone was someone that neither Arad nor Eris could mistake, ”Amaterasu…” The goddess of the sun was just there, guarding the outside of the universe.

The other tall woman wearing a white robe and glaring at them with burning red eyes was someone that neither of them saw before, but Eris could tell at a glance, ”The red eye Akame, Hel the goddess of vampires.”

The last one sat on the ground, leaning on her knee with a smug smile. Arad was the one who immediately recognized her as a red drakaina with power that far outclassed anything that he had ever seen before. Pure fire and violence, she had more power than ten of Gamond.

”Itʼs been a while, void brat. Have my fire been serving you well?” She spoke and he remembered her voice, ”The fire goddess? Youʼre the one who almost killed me with a [Ho-white Nova] in the past!”

”We were patrolling around and killing the abominations nesting on the universeʼs crust when we sensed you pop out of nowhere.” Amaterasu looked at Arad with a smug smile, her red lips burning with fire, ”Youʼre one naughty boy. You should be back home training, not playing around.”

Amaterasuʼs eyes shifted toward Eris, ”Itʼs you, girl, the one who seduced him to come here.” Her eyes quickly shifted toward Akame, ”She used your magic to call him here, what do you say?”

Akame looked at Arad, ”He already took my daughter…I doubt itʼs the girlʼs fault, more his.” She lifted her hand and Akasha was forced out of Aradʼs blood, ”Iʼll take you back home if you want.” Akame looked at her daughter.

”Weʼll…I want to stay a bit more…” Akasha scratched her chin, ”...or is that asking too much?”

Akame sighed, ”If he was anyone else it wouldʼve been too much, but he is Arad. You can stay, but keep him out of trouble.” Akasha quickly flew back into Aradʼs body.

Arad glared at the three goddess, ”You didnʼt come here to chat, did you?”

”Right!” The fire goddess stood, ”My name is Kussuth, and Iʼm the one who wanted to talk with you.” She started approaching him and Arad took a step back.

”Donʼt be afraid. I came here to talk about Amber, Amber Burnhill. The fire elemental woman.”

”I know Amber, you almost killed me when I was trying to help her.” He growled.

”The Burnhill family originated from the fire djinn clan of the elemental plan of fire. They are my priests there, the ones tending to my true divine body.” She lifted her hand and conjured a [Ho-white Nova], ”Sooner or later sheʼll need to return there if she wants to keep growing stronger, and I want you to come with her.”

Kussuth threw the [Ho-white Nova] to Arad and he caught it, immediately realising it wasnʼt a [Ho-white Nova], ”What is this!?” He gasped and she giggled, ”A gift, give it to Mira and sheʼll be able to use it to forge stronger weapons. Thatʼs a divine flame ripped straight out of my soul.”

”Kussuth!” Amaterasu growled, ”The abominationʼs reinforcements are approaching. We donʼt have much time.”

Kussuth sighed, ”Well, back home you go.”

”Wait… how do I get Eris and Mira to become true goddess?” Arad asked and Amaterasu sighed, ”Itʼs not a matter of how, but when.”

Akame explained briefly, ”There are three main routes. The first is the overgod turning her into a full goddess just by willing it, but that would limit her potential. The second is enacting her portfolio, for Eris murdering a few hundred thousand of people would work. The last option is to wait until the world accepts her.”

Amaterasu waved her hands and formed a portal, ”Now go!”

”Wait…”

”You have more questions?” Amaterasu sighed, ”What is it?”

”How can I restore a broken soul?”

”Seek Yggdrasil and the elvesʼ goddess Sylph. The elvish queen Cerilla should know how to get you to them.” Amaterasu swung her leg and kicked Arad and Eris into the portal with a powerful wave of gravity.

Arad and Eris found themselves back in Hatiʼs mansion.