The dragon's harem

Chapter 2186: A Plan With Several Layers

Sensing that the fight won’t end peacefully this time, Eris immediately shouted, not at Arad, but at Baal. ”BAAL! This fight would drag us back on so many levels! Stop him.” Hearing her shout, Baal could understand what she meant. Arad can fight Kossuth and Zaleria as much as he wants; as an archon of AO, Baal will never go against his master. But... Eris is right; AO’s ultimate goal is to defeat Nyar and bring back peace to the universe he created, and making an enemy of a powerhouse like Kossuth went against all of that.

”My Lord, Lady Eris is right. This fight is meaningless. Killing those two would just weaken our stand in the war.” He spoke, and Kossuth laughed. ”Killing me? You can try, but I don’t think it will be that easy.”

Baal stared at her. ”Not easy and impossible are two different things.” He then shifted his gaze down toward Arad. ”We should stop for now.”

After a second of silence, Arad sighed. ”I made sure that Amber was fine, so there is no more reason to fight.” He absorbed back the black hole, and Baal faded into Arad’s void. Another second passed, and Arad was back in his draconic body. Eris sighed in relief, and Kossuth looked a bit disappointed.

”And I was here thinking I’ll finally have some real fun.” Kossuth shook her head as her flames expanded outside to repair the palace and the damage that Arad did. Zaleria, by her side, seemed to relax a bit, pulling her wings to her back as she shifted back to her humanoid form. ”What a pain...”

Kossuth then shifted to her humanoid body as well, which was unlike anything that Eris had ever seen in her life. A tall woman standing at six meters in height with a figure that only succubi should be allowed to have: thick legs, wide hips, thin waist, large chest, and a smile befitting a devil.

Her skin radiated white light, and so did her burning eyes. Her entire body looked so hot that it could melt anything that got close, but it was still cold to the touch. All of those flames burned just beneath her skin, isolated from the outside world by her will. She didn’t have hair, just white flames burning out of her scalp, eyelashes, and eyebrows, complementing her eyes that looked like two blinding stars.

All of that beauty just got covered by a thin, almost transparent robe that clung tightly to her frame, and as she took a step forward, her sharp and long clawed toenails scratched the ground, illuminating it with sparks.

Arad stared down at her, and so did Eris. But then, Zaleria sighed. ”She usually wears more decent clothes. Just ignore her.” She then threw a glance at Eris. ”It’ll be hard to talk in your draconic form...”

Eris didn’t have any problem taking on her humanoid form, but Arad was the problem. His human soul had shattered, so he couldn’t do that. ”I don’t mind, but...” As she looked at Arad, he sighed. ”I can take a humanoid form. Who said I can’t?”

Arad’s body shrunk rapidly, and when he took a humanoid form, Zaleria looked a bit surprised, while Kossuth looked even more turned on as she licked her lips and started wiggling her hips a bit. Arad wasn’t a huge and beefy man, but a tall, ungodly beautiful Nymph wearing a black robe that once belonged to Merlin.

”Yeah...” Eris shifted to her humanoid form. ”The Nymph’s form. If we just needed to talk, then it works just fine.” She then threw a glance at Zaleria and Kossuth. ”We can talk now, right?” and of course, Eris didn’t forget to send Merlin a quick call, informing her of what happened.

Of course, Merlin wasn’t pleased at all, but for now, she didn’t have anything she could do about it. Arad was special, and predicting what he’d do or get into was literally impossible, as even she couldn’t understand how his thoughts moved inside his skull. From the information she gathered in just a few seconds, she realized the depth of Arad’s battle plan that he came up with in that fraction of a second when Kossuth first attacked.

Arad planned to reflect Kossuth’s attack to her, while splitting into three parts. One dragon went to fight Kossuth to distract her, the other dragon went to retrieve Amber from Zaleria. The third part was a Nymph, who left all of her powers with the dragon who went to fight Kossuth while going on her own mission. She, filled herself with eldritch magic, had Nyar’s avatar hide her presence in the same way he hides from the gods, and snuck into Kossuth’s treasury so she can steal everything there and take away any potential weapons.

But it didn’t end up there, inside his stomach; Arad already had all of Kali’s resting armies stand at the ready with hordes of demons and a huge load of abomination. Mainly ten Avatars of Nyar, the ones that AO killed and swallowed when he woke up, with Damnation, and he even had the twelve demon lords ready for smoke. That was without mentioning Baal, who had the chains of hell ready to drag Kossuth and Zaleria to its depths.

Arad wasn’t just there ready to kill those two, but was even planning to destroy the entire elemental plane of fire, steal Kossuth’s fire portfolio, and feed it to Amber. But Merlin couldn’t help but keep going back and checking again just to make sure there were really TEN Nyar Avatars ready to attack Alongside Baal.

She had lectured Eris and Isdis about being reckless, but can she really blame them with Arad being this absurd? He really saw an undefeated flame goddess, her war hero of a daughter, who crippled Nyar and said Nah, I’d win.

In fact, even now that they calmed down, those ten Avatars of Nyar were already out and sneaking deep into the palace, ready to devastate everything on a moment’s notice. ^Eris, tell Arad to calm the fuck down, or I’ll skin him alive. No, I know for a fact he is reading your mind. ARAD! Do you hear me? Suck those ten back into your stomach right now! We don’t want another cosmic disaster. Those two are safe; if they dare do anything, your mother, Amaterasu, and Yog would drill them new arses, so just don’t.^

^You think you can order me around?^ Arad sent his thoughts back to Merlin through Eris, and she growled right back at him. ^Yes, I’m the voice of reason inside your head. I’ll make sure you hear what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. Those two must stay alive; they are critical forces for the universe, so back away. No harm was done, so don’t drag this more than it should have.^

Arad sighed and crossed his arms. ^Fine, just this time.^ He finally pulled all of his forces back, yet still kept them close inside his stomach, ready to deploy at any second, and was already devising tens of new plans for a counterattack.

”What do you want to talk about?” He glared at Kossuth, and she gave him a smile. ”Amber’s training and why it is the way it is,” Kossuth replied, and then smiled. ”But I don’t mind discussing more pressing matters privately with you, in my nest.”