The dragon's harem

Chapter 1401: From Behind The Gate

Arad and Gojo stood inside the strategy room, both of them looking at the eerie map.

Arad wore his black armor, standing ready to tank a lot of damage and stall for time. Heʼll need to make sure their encounter with Alexander lasts as long as they need to exhaust him. And he must never think of this as a fight or a battle. If he did, heʼd just be feeding the god more power.

Gojo didnʼt look that worried in his fancy white robe made from the woven silky hair of ancient yeties. The stunning robe was made especially for him by the best hands in his kingdom, using the rarest materials he could find, those that could empower his magic.

The fabric was brined in pure mana water, and the golden decorations are, in fact, woven from Lucyʼs blond hair. Even the red roses embroidered on the sleeves and neck collar were painted in that color using his blood mixed with Lucyʼs divine blood.

All of Gojoʼs clothes were made to be hungry, to consume his mana at a rapid rate and enchant his spells over their limit by a lot, allowing each crossing of threads to act as another spellcasting source.

Of course, this robe also held a hint of Lucyʼs wild magic, giving it the curse of randomly spitting powerful magical effects out of nowhere to cause chaos. It wasnʼt something safe that he could wear daily without causing a disaster.

If Alexander died in a random burst of wild magic, then itʼll be just an accident, not a war or a fight.

”Are you ready?” Gojo said with a smile, ”Once weʼre there, youʼll have to follow the plan as best as you can.”

Arad smiled and reached toward the man, ”Of course I can. Youʼre the one who should be careful.”

The two were born a year apart, with Gojo being the older one. But the more time passes, the more meaningless that time gap would become. When Gojo was a year old and Arad a month old, it was like living twelve times longer than his sibling.

Now, a year later, it was like living just twice longer, and that gap would keep getting smaller and smaller, bringing the two brothers closer and closer in power.

Gojo waved his hand over the man, and the two of them got pulled into the sealed world, finding themselves standing on the peak of an ashen mountain, surrounded by searing heat and smoke. The world still didnʼt cool down from Aradʼs fight, and it didnʼt take Alexander a fraction of a second to notice them.

Gojo smiled, pointing a finger forward, ”He is coming, get ready.”

The smoke disappeared, the mountain evaporated, and Alexanderʼs burning fist was an inch away from Gojoʼs burning blue eyes.

A divine blast carried by the fist of a god. It carried enough power to rip the mortal world apart, something that Yog wouldʼve immediately erased Alexander for if he were in the mortal world.

As a connoisseur of magic, Gojo wanted nothing more than to give Alexander the punishment he deserved, but he shouldnʼt do that now.

With even flinching, Gojo side-stepped Alexanderʼs punch and lifted two fingers.

It was time to give Alexander a blessing; it was time to offer him a gift of knowledge that he didnʼt ask for. Gojo is a wizard, one more accomplished than most, who caught the eyes of the goddess of magic. Yogʼs million eyes watched over him, and thus, the goddess could hear the whispers of his magic.

[Elemental Expansion]

The sealed world crumbled, fading away into the vast emptiness of Gojoʼs expansion.

[Forbidden Knowledge From Behind The Gate]

The stars of Gojoʼs void turned into glaring eyes, the void slithered around like black tentacles of tar, and eldritch nightmares. Painting a whole reality directly into the minds of those who looked, forcing them to see what they shouldnʼt see.

Alexander froze in place like a statue, drooling as his mind burned with what he saw. His consciousness split into two parts: Alexander, the divine god of war, and the abominable horror he had become after being infected.

Alexander cursed in rage, swearing to one day rip Nyarʼs head off and feed it to the pigs, while the abominable horror, punched down, trying to take back control, devestated and terrfied upon realising he isnʼt a real abomination and just an expandable, failed sucide bomber that couldnʼt infect the other gods.

But that wasnʼt enough, Gojo wanted to beat Alexanderʼs mind down, to knock him out so badly that all the wars in the world would stop for a second. He dug deeper and deeper, walking past the gate and pulling at the strings of Alexanderʼs past and future while Yog whispered in his ears, describing everything and anything he touched with details directly into his mind.

His goal was simple: to find more truths that Alexander wasnʼt supposed to know, and shove them into his brain to kill his sense of self, which should cause the portfolios to abandon him.

What Gojo found was centuries of slow manipulation by Nyar from the shadows.

How that monster got close to Alexander, how he managed to infect him without anyone knowing, and why Yog never bothered to warn anyone, despite the fact that she knew of everything.

The first thing Gojo showed to Alexander was his future, dead, abandoned by all once his soul crumbled into the abominable abyss. The one standing beside his corpse was neither Arad nor Gojo, but Alexanderʼs wife, looking at him with dark, dead eyes.

This was a surprise to Gojo. He didnʼt expect Alexander to survive todayʼs encounter, but it seems he would. Anyone else wouldʼve thrown the fight right then when he knew they wonʼt win, but Gojo was already used to dealing with Yogʼs forbidden knowledge, and would fight pretending that he didnʼt see anything.

The second truth Gojo found and showed to Alexander was, once again, his wife, getting dissected on Yogʼs lab table while screaming. From her womb, Yog pulled an abominable fetus and threw it in a large lab tube. She then looked up and smiled, ”Yoo, Alex-boy, you seeing this? Told you, didnʼt I?”

Then, from the threads dancing behind the gate, Gojo pulled on a large rope and pulled something buried deep into Alexanderʼs past. The day he first met his wife on the frontlines of the war, and how he got orders to execute her immediately.

”Donʼt you love it? When things play right into your hands?” Yogʼs voice rang inside Gojoʼs head, ”Iʼm going to blind and deafen you now. There are a few things that you shouldnʼt know there.”