The dragon's harem

Chapter 1555: The Nine Dimensions

Nyarʼs head flew into the darkness of the void, rapidly shifting back to Euriʼs head. The tentacles around everyone vanished, and the endless darkness boiling out of Nyarʼs body disappeared without a trace.

Aradʼs eyes followed the edge of his blade as he sensed Domaʼs presence mixing with the alien nature of Yog.

The darkness within her being grew deeper than that of Aradʼs stomach, as if she were an endless sea of tar and eyes. Incoherent, senseless, but still guided by a frightening level of intellect.

Doma didnʼt go anywhere; she just gained a physical body, one that looked nothing like a human or an elf, but more like an ooze, a slime of eyeballs and tar.

The sword slipped from his hand, fell a few inches down, then shifted and turned into a single blob.

The countless pink eyes looked around with a strange emotion in them, then Domaʼs voice echoed, ”Now this isnʼt sexy at all.”

Her body boiled and bubbled as she tried to gain any resemblance to a human shape, but she only ended up turning into a tall pillar of slimy black tar and eyeballs.

Arad looked at her for a second, then touched his chest, ”Wait, my souls.”

Inside, his human and draconic souls were covered in the black tar that acted like glue, keeping them together.

Under the light of his third and massive soul, the two souls were slowly healing. It would take a while, but Arad can survive until then. For a moment, he thought that he would need to recover slowly like Tina, but it seemed that the larger the soul, the better its healing capability would be.

”{Yog was hiding inside you since we left the universe. She turned the knowledge of herself into forbidden knowledge, so everyone forgot she existed.}” Doma approached Arad and looked at him with her countless eyes.

”{She bid her time and waited, then gave me this, to help finish Nyar off.}”

What Yog gave Doma was some quite peculiar, not a direct power of the forbidden knowledge, but a derivative of it.

There is a gate, a great gate, behind which all the knowledge of existence and beyond is stored. No one can walk through the gate and survive because the forbidden knowledge isnʼt supposed to exist.

The only thing that allows that knowledge to be perceived is AOʼs omniscience. Yog possesses that at the moment.

So what will happen if someone else learned forbidden knowledge?

Theyʼll either go insane or disappear from existence whole.

But there is a catch: whatʼs considered forbidden knowledge for someone might not be for another. Thatʼs how Doma ended up learning something from Yog.

Domaʼs curse was clairvoyance, which allows her to see the future. It was both a result and cause of her countless conflicts with the Fates.

Because she could see the future without the Fatesʼ permission, she was already treading the thin line between whatʼs forbidden and whatʼs not.

Thatʼs where Yog came into play and showed her something cursed, the knowledge of the three dimensions of everything.

Space has three dimensions; you can go up or down, left or right, then back and forward. It is the three dimensions of space where everyone lives.

Then there are the three dimensions of time. First, the regular time everyone lives through, the one that flows from past to future.

The second one is the parallel timelines indicated by the threads of fate. Those timelines are formed by similar versions of the same thing, like what if Doma had a mole, what if her hair was a slightly different shade of pink. Timelines that are different, but would always result in the same ending, because nothing of importance changed from the perspective of the first dimension of time. It stood at a right angle to the first dimension, which is why it moves with it.

The third dimension is when things change. What if Doma died? What if she lost a limb and never got it back? They allow different outcomes based on different starting points. This dimension is at a right angle to the second dimension while flowing alongside the first.

Then there are the three dimensions of magic, which honestly scared Doma because she didnʼt know everything was as complicated and expansive as that.

The first dimension was all that everyone in the universe used, even the gods. The power was a straight line, with divine magic on one end, and curses on the negative end, with mana being the neutral middle.

That meant everyone, from gods to mortals to devils, was stuck on the first dimension of magic in the same way all mortals are stuck between the past, present, and future.

But, there was more. The eldritch magic rested right beside the first, and it was where the abominations were, one dimension of power above the gods, or mainly Nyar and the higher abominations were at that level. It flew from nether, to mana, to eldritch magic.

This had made Doma almost shit herself when she remembered that Arad was using Vorvadossʼs eldritch magic like nothing, meaning he operated at least on the same playing field as the abominations.

Then there was the last dimension, reality, illusion, and nothing being in the middle of it. The level where AO, the first Overgod, was. The power that allowed him to create a whole reality and universe for people and gods to thrive in.

Thatʼs why the abominations canʼt just go and make their universe. They canʼt; they arenʼt at the same power level as him. As Arad.

When Doma learned that Arad was, in fact, AO himself, she froze for long enough that Yog thought she had died.

The few who knew about AOʼs existence also had learned that he shouldʼve been dead for a long time. He had perished long ago, and Cain was the current overgod, taking his place to keep the universe stable.

But what none knew, or seemed to guess, was that AO wasnʼt dead; he couldnʼt die because Death canʼt claim her maker. The very concepts of death and life were created by him.

So AO wasnʼt dead, just asleep, in a coma. And for whatever reason, to heal, he would just create a whole new body for himself. Thatʼs where Arad comes, he was just AO, still being drowsy and slowly coming to his senses after oversleeping for a bit.

She couldnʼt just tell Arad about what she learned, because that was the nature of forbidden knowledge. It was supposed to spread because it breaks peopleʼs minds, shifts their behavior, and would lead the events of fate astray.

So how did Domaʼs blade manage to cleave Nyarʼs head? It was simple, after learning of the full extent of the dimensions of magic, she used the fact that Nyar used Euriʼs body and curse to empower himself.

She didnʼt attack Nyar; she attacked the vessel, Euri, and cleaved his head off. Yog did the bulk of the work by identifying Nyarʼs magic and guiding Doma to slip through it and hit Euri, but in the end, the result was a head flying in the air.

So Arad was the one swinging, Doma was the weapon, and Yog was the guiding force that made it all possible.

Doma then looked to the side, her eyes stopping at Vasilissa, ”So? Sheʼs your mom?”

Arad slowly turned his head, glaring at Vasilissa with burning purple eyes. ”Almost died, you wonʼt say anything?”

Vasilissa giggled and approached, ”No.” She threw her hand forward and pierced Aradʼs chest, but he didnʼt feel anything. She then pulled Yog out of him by the hair.

”OW! That hurt!” Yog cried, but Vasilissa wasnʼt having any of that. ”Not while she was hiding inside your stomach. I knew she would help, I just didnʼt know how far she was willing to let you suffer before she did anything.”

Yog stared at her, ”Hoi! I kept him alive, and thatʼs what matters.”

Vasilissa gave a sharp glare, ”Let me remind your short ass that our deal includes a part where you wonʼt allow Arad to get out of the universe when a Nyar fight is happening.”

Yog could feel Vasilissaʼs claws digging into her skull.

”Wait! Wait! It wasnʼt my fault! Go beat her! She is the one who dragged him out, not me!” Yog pointed toward Kali, who was approaching with Amaterasu and everyone else.

Vasilissa looked at Kali, then at Arad, then back at Yog, ”She is his wife, I donʼt care about what they do to each other. What I care about is you breaking the contract by allowing it to happen without saying anything to me beforehand.”