The dragon's harem

Chapter 1747: Can’t Keep Up

BANG! As Nyar’s tentacle spear reached Betty’s eye, it was shot aside with a racing bullet that appeared out of nowhere. Nyar frowned, and his eyes quickly looked to the side and saw her, Altair, sitting alone on top of a mountain several kilometers away, pointing a massive rifle at him.

It took him a second to realize how she managed to hit him despite his senses and speed. It was a simple trick that only void dragons could do.

”Using the void dragons void step to teleport bullets away, how annoying.” He growled.

Each void dragon was a bit unique in the way they used their power, even though they all had the same skill set. Altair, for example, used her void stomach as a storage for firearms, and her void step to teleport her bullets anywhere she wants, making everything within her void step range effectively point-blank. Gojo has his magic, Arad has his hands, and Altair has her guns.

In that moment, he disappeared from the battlefield, and in the next moment, he was standing behind Altair, glaring down at her with burning green eyes and slithering tentacles seeping from his lower half. ”You shouldn’t move a lot right after evolving. You look quite starved, young adult void drakaina. You’re one of Arad’s mates, right?”

Nyar could tell at a moment’s glance that, until recently, Altair had been hibernating to evolve, and she had just managed to become a young adult drakaina. In fact, it was probably less than a couple of days since she woke up.

She was still fresh out of her evolution and had no idea about the extent of her powers. Right now, she should be training, resting, and eating to recover her stamina, and not participating in such a battle.

Besides all of that, he could sense Arad’s magic around her, and immediately deduced that it was only natural for the only drakaina nearby to end up with him. Killing her should prove a decent blow to Arad’s state of mind.

He swung one of his tentacles down to crush her. Altair couldn’t react in time, and she was not Nyar’s opponent. Attacking him was foolish, and it was natural for her to end up killed with ease. Besides, she was the first void drakaina that Nyar knew to be around Arad, and she knew Nyar would target her first.

She didn’t want to come here. Unlike everyone who rushed here blindly, she understood well that she was outclassed and would only be a burden, but she didn’t have a say in the matter. Well, she had a say, but she couldn’t say no.

All of that made her a decent bait. Killing her is something Nyar would do even if he didn’t need to. He would do it just to spite Arad.

Nyar’s tentacles hit a transparent wall, and Altair was already sweating buckets. She never agreed to being bait, but what could she do? Those three are scary as hell. When they showed up and asked if she wanted to be bait, she couldn’t just say no and expect them to leave her alone.

”Eternity?” Nyar’s eyes opened wide as he saw the glass barrier, and around him, three mature women stood, glaring at him as if he were disgusting piece of dung.

Hati, the nine-tailed Fenrir, the Sovereign of Eternity. She was tall, standing almost 1.9 meters, wearing a silver kimono embroidered with flowers and clouds. Her long silver hair fluttered in the winds, draping over her chest and back, reaching the base of her massive, fluffy nine tails. She glared at Nyar with a smile, her eyes flashed golden, and her sharp red nails ringed with magic, sending a pulse of magic that sounded like chimes.

Lola, the bright rainbow drakaina, the Queen of the chromatic dragons. She glared at Nyar with a stern face, her eyes flashing with every color of light, and her hair was the same, dancing behind her back like a wild rainbow in the sky, each color holding more power than an elder chromatic dragon. Unlike anyone here, she wore a fancy royal robe, a mantle, and a crown decorated with the rarest of gems and precious metals.

Mary, the divine steel drakaina, the Queen of the metallic dragons. She wore full steel plate armor except the helmet, leaving her golden-brown hair fluttering in the wind, and her golden eyes flashed with divinity. The most terrifying thing was that Nyar could feel a gravitational pull coming from her; that was how heavy her armor was.

Those three weren’t gods; they were still mere mortals, and thus, the universe didn’t restrain them. Nyar knew that, and he could already feel that he was at a disadvantage.

Nyar didn’t like it one bit. Standing between those three women, he couldn’t help but growl. Lola is Luminous’s mother and is far stronger than her. Mary is Linda’s mother and the one who taught her the secrets of time. Hati, on the other hand, is eternal, something that even he struggled to deal with.

”How did Cain tame you three monsters?” They might not be anywhere as scary as Amaterasu, but the fact that Cain managed to get those three women to work together was inconsiderable. The Chromatic dragons and Metallic dragons were at war, and Lola and Mary were supposed to hate each other’s guts, but here they are standing side by side. Hati, on the other hand, was arrogant, lustful, and rude to everyone, even the gods, yet here she is helping them.

And with that, he bolted away. Standing between them made him feel extremely uncomfortable, like a sheep between hungry wolves. He can kill them if he can separate them. But facing them all at once was just asking to be ganged on.

If people thought Luminous was too bright and held too much light power, then they had never seen her mother, Lola. And if people really thought time dragons were broken, then they would go insane if Mary showed her power. And Hati, the one of them looking the gentlest, was the wielder of the ineffable eternity, and her smile hid a sadistic, insane lust for eternal perfection.

As Nyar flew away, he hit a wall, an invisible wall that even with his power, he couldn’t pierce. That was eternity. Hati had locked him with them three inside a square box. It wasn’t even that simple. Lola had used her light magic to hide the wall, and Mary had used time magic to rewind him back to his starting point each time he tried to escape.

Hati’s wall wasn’t durable, it was eternal, meaning that to destroy it, he would need an eternity. Trying to kill Hati would be easier. So, he turned around and flew at her, only to get punched aside by Mary, and then kicked in face by Lola.

As Nyar tried to regain his balance, Hati’s red nails flashed past his face, cutting it into small pieces. Then from her palm, she pulled a long glass sword, the blade of eternity, and cut him in half. Mary caught and pinned the pieces together, and Lola burned them with every element in existence.

Nyar almost puked Damnation out, but he quickly swallowed her back and stood to fight. But it was then that the scary things started to happen. He found himself swinging his tentacle down at a scared Altair, and before he could know it, a steel sword pierced his chest as a beam of rainbow light burned, froze, electrocuted, pummeled, poisoned, and melted him all at once.

And under Hati’s gaze, that started repeating itself countless times, almost leading to an eternity if he didn’t break free.

Lola had the power of all the chromatic elements on top of light magic. Mary was heavy, and could hit like a meteor, and her time magic only made her hard to deal with. Hati, on the other hand, commanded eternity, and could force anything to her will, like making a single moment last for an eternity.

Their fight lasted five months from what Nyar could recall, each time he got a leg up on them, Mary would rewind time to the start of the fight, and they would solve whatever strategy he came up with. In reality, only ten seconds had passed.

In the end, Nyar managed to break free through eternity by wounding Hati enough that her barrier shattered, and his first instinct was to get as far away from them as he could. The only reason he managed to escape was that whatever spells Merlin was using throughout the labyrinth to restrain him didn’t work well with Mary looping time and Hati twisting eternity.

This was his biggest problem. His vessel is powerful, meaning this avatar can fight well. But, while the gods with destructive powers couldn’t go all out here, those with niche, obscure powers that weren’t made for mass destruction were all but unhindered. He had to get rid of the labyrinth first to deal with them.

At that moment, and without allowing him even a moment to breathe, Betty, Linda, Tiamat, Maharaja, and Luminous were already lunging at him, followed by Kali and Kayden. It all happened in the blink of an eye, engulfed by a blinding flash of light so no one could see the exchange, but at its end, Nyar flew away without his lower half.

In the back, Lola and Mary healed Hati and checked on her. She looked fine, albeit extremely mad. ”Cain disappears for a second, and this bastard gets so bold and comes here.” Hati growled.

”It is called being an opportunistic predator.” Mary looked toward the fight. Lola laughed, ”Like you, Hati. You would take any chance to get on with Cain.”

”Shut up!” Hati glared at her, and Mary agreed. ”Yep, she is an opportunistic one as well. Sly fox.”

”I’m a Fenrir!”

The battle then didn’t last long before a massive blast shook the entire labyrinth; it was, in fact, so powerful that Yog yelled at everyone. ”You’re going overboard! Or do you want me to shove my foot down your throat?”

Tiamat flew out of the flames first and glared upward. ”Stop whining and hold this place tighter.”

Yog yelled right back at her. ”That’s it! I’m shoving both my legs down your throat, and taking a piss on your stupid lizard! You’ll kill Merlin and Alice, I can take the stress, but they can’t!”

Tiamat froze for a second and cursed, ”Damn it! I’ll keep it low. How much?”

”70% don’t use more than that. And you aren’t getting off the hook!” Yog growled and went back to maintaining the labyrinth.

Kayden had lost one of his six arms, and Kali looked perfectly fine alongside Maharaja. Linda, on the other hand, had her forearms bruised and would’ve lost them if Kayden hadn’t protected her. No one could see if Luminous was injured, and Betty was sparkling fine, even though she almost died again.

Nyar flew away and landed, glaring at everyone rushing back to face him again. The longer he stays here, the more monsters are going to show up, and eventually, even he won’t be able to survive. He was saving his eldritch magic to capture Violet, but now he has to use it.

Lifting his hands, he turned them into tentacles and extended them up. ”This is the end; you’ll die here without a single one to remember you.”

Nyar had expected to face Violet and possibly the mad overgod Cain, so the eldritch magic he brought was mental in nature. He had mimicked Cain’s madness and replicated it in an eldritch form to use against all residents of the universe, and it was called.

[Condemnation of Doubt]

The moment Nyar unleashed it, everyone was forced to stop in their place, doubting their own actions, then loathing themselves for that doubt, only to feel guilty about that and doubting themselves again. Trapped in that cycle of self-condemnation and doubt, none of them could make a decision, move, or act.

”Sorry, but this is the end for you all.” He smiled. Not even Yog could save them if he actively blocked her, so now, all he had to do was kill a few of them and bolt it away. Getting out of this demi-plan should be a priority.

But before he could do anything, the sky flashed golden, and a tall woman landed in front of him. Three meters tall, clad in golden armor, burning with a mountain of divine magic, and boasting twenty pale wings behind her back.

”So, you evolved, damned paladin.” He growled. ”But that doesn’t matter. Not even you could endure my...” His body was cleaved in half, and he was blasted away by the shockwave.

”Impossible! How can you move?” He growled, and Lydia flew right after him, engulfed with divine magic.

She didn’t care about doubt or condemnation; both of those emotions were nothing but distractions and illusions. Amaterasu said to kill this thing, and she would do it. It wasn’t that Nyar’s eldritch magic didn’t work on her; it worked well, and Lydia couldn’t tell if killing Nyar now was the right call or not, and she felt extremely guilty about slashing him in half.

But that was the point; she was just a paladin, and she didn’t care about the nature or morality of her actions. All she cared about was carrying Amaterasu’s orders, and if anyone had a complaint, they should go talk with her instead.

”Come on! If Amaterasu told you to kill a child, would you do it?” Nyar growled, and Lydia kicked him away. He spun in the air and then stopped, only for her to appear standing in front of him like a giant, her wings shining light down as he cowered back under her glare.

”Yeah.” Just hearing that word made him realize that the woman in front of him was an absolute animal, a creature most similar to the one person who managed to hold the abominations’ invasion alone for thousands of years.

Lydia was just like him, like Lucifer, the first angel AO created.