The dragon's harem

Chapter 1259: Blinding Entrance

”I finally got it.” Zeus looked at Arad with a smile as lightning poured out of his eyes, illuminating the dark cavern in bright azure radiance.

”Then weʼve got no time. Most monsters are dead, so all you need to do is fly out with Zeusʼs body if you could. If you canʼt leave him here, carry him, then leave him here and find a way later with the Titans.”

Arad turned into his draconic form and expanded his wings. ”You remember Zenia, say that you resurrected her using the last drop of whatever potion that Raptur Abomination left.”

Zeus nodded, ”Indeed, and Iʼll make sure to claim that it was all thanks to Tyal beating her up so badly that she regained her consciousness and came here to assist me take down Cronos. But is she really alive? She has been dead for a long while, hasnʼt she?”

Arad shook his head. ”The time limit is probably related to both the condition of the body and the soul. Zeniaʼs soul was in pretty good shape, albeit she wonʼt live without scars. Iʼve got her soul, Iʼve got her body, Iʼve got plenty of healing magic, and a makeshift way of tying someoneʼs soul back to their body. Of course, the assistance of that potion. Sadly, that potion only seems to be able to repair the silver chain linking someoneʼs soul to their body, not repair the soul itself.”

Zeus stared at him silently for a few seconds and then sighed, ”How come you know more about like and resurrection than me, who is a demi-god now. No, how could a mere mortal understand all of that?”

Arad looked at him with a smile, ”Knowledge isnʼt limited to the gods. Itʼs easy to know things. Itʼs far harder to act on them. Besides, do you think you can beat me in a fight, if thatʼs what you were thinking?”

Zeus burst laughing, ”Nah, Iʼd lose.” He went silent and stared at Arad, ”But not before taking at least an arm down with me.”

Arad shook his head, turned back into a human, lifted his left arm, and chopped it down with his right arm.

Zeus stared at him with a baffled face and became bewildered as he saw Aradʼs arm grow back out in the blink of an eye.

”Iʼm sorry, Zeus. But if only cutting an arm was enough to kill me. People underestimate my power a lot, except those abominations, they seem to know well what I am capable of.” A faint smile sat on Aradʼs pale face, his eyes sparkled with faint purple light as the shadows of the whole cave danced and twisted, space and time themselves seemed to twist and contort as Arad took a step toward Zeus.

Zeus could feel it, the overwhelmingly heavy pressure of Aradʼs magic. It far surpassed anything he had ever seen in his life. And it then dawned on him, Cronos, the Titan of time, was perfected by Raptur, and both of them reached a new realm of power. But they were crushed and driven away by Arad, and without blowing the whole Titan kingdom into ash.

The world wonʼt survive Arad, let alone its inhabitants, demi-gods or not.

Arad smiled and then looked up at the chasm. ”Gale is overestimating my power from the act I showed him. But even his overestimation is a great underestimation of what I am capable of. Tyal knows, you know, even Zenia knows, but thatʼs what matters now.”

Arad took a deep breath, ”Iʼll help you make an entrance. It already took you a while to absorb the lightning portfolio, so I guess itʼll take you even longer to get accustomed to your new powers.”

Sparks of lightning flashed through Aradʼs wings, and his eyes burned blue. He opened his maw and unleashed a massive lightning breath that pierced the chasm and blasted its way right to the surface.

Aradʼs incarnation up on the surface roared, warning the soldiers to get away from the chasm, but he wasnʼt so lucky and got caught in the lightning breath alongside Tyal. Of course, that was by design. He needed one last push to cement his presence as a power the Titans shouldnʼt underestimate.

For a second, it seemed like Arad and Tyal both evaporated into the blinding pillar of lightning, but then, the lightning split apart as if it was a river of water that hit a massive boulder. Arad flew right through it and roared, unleashing his breath.

Aradʼs breath and the lightning pillar clashed in a blinding show of pure destruction. The Titans had to run away and shelter themselves from the blinding light and heat, praying to the gods that whatever was happening wouldnʼt cause an explosion powerful enough to blast the whole mountain range.

Soon, both the lightning pillar and Aradʼs energy breath faded away, canceling each other out. Arad landed on the ground, and a pale old man with a long and bushy white beard and a bare muscular torso landed in front of him.

Zeus had returned.

Zeus and Arad glared at each other, their mere presences enough to mask any imperfection in their acting. The Titans, of course, recognized Zeus, and they gasped; he was supposed to be dead. Their hearts clenched in terror, thinking that his body mustʼve fallen prey to the vile Cronos Raptur.

The Titans now had their hopes on Arad and Gale, who shouldʼve killed Zeus before. Those two should be able to stop Zeus safely, right?

The moment the Titans thought about safety, they recognized something.

That lighting pillar mustʼve been Zeusʼs doing, but such power wasnʼt something he had in life; no, it wasnʼt something that mere mortals should hold.

Galeʼs thoughts were different, but similar to the other Titans. He thought that the Cronos Raptur had managed to get to Zeus inside the sealing mountain. His poor father was chained; he must not have been able to even resist or fight back the monster.

That was a massive oversight. He shouldʼve put several people guarding the place. The impenetrable wasnʼt so mighty in front of a horrific monster like the Cronos Raptur.

”WAIT!” Tyal screamed above Arad, ”Something isnʼt right!”

Hearing her words, the two froze. Arad slightly lifted his head, and Zeus looked at Tyal and smiled.

”Tyal! My little girl, what are you doing on this monster?” Zeus spoke with a grin, ”He isnʼt taking you for a sacrifice, is he? We Titans donʼt play by the human and dragons rules after all, do we?”

Before Tyal could reply, Aradʼs voice drowned the sky, ”I see, youʼre the old man who lost that fool of a Titan, Gale. You donʼt smell rotten at all, youʼre not a corpse, are you?”

”Smell? I hadnʼt had the chance to take a bath in a long while, but I shouldnʼt smell that bad.” Zeus combed his beard, ”On the other hand, a civil dragon, how rare.”

It was then that Tyal jumped down.

”Both of you, stand down.”