The dragon's harem

Chapter 2354: Separating The Realm

Deep within the dark void of Arad’s stomach, Baal sat beneath Arad’s titanic black soul, bathing in its lightless nothingness. His massive wings absorbed the seeping power, and when he looked up, he could see the glowing stars shining.

All of those stars were [Ho-White Nova]’s that Arad kept charging inside his stomach to eventually use in battle, but now, something strange was happening to them, and Baal could feel it. The tendrils of darkness were growing out of Arad’s soul like a great tree, spreading across the void and tying them all together.

Ophan, the Archangel of Domination, who was nearby, also looked up, sensing the wave of power rushing out. "Is he trying to link them all up, or just hold them in place?" She asked, and Baal flapped his wings and floated up.

"He is trying to ignite them. Those aren’t real stars, but mere lumps of compressed magic and flames. Kossuth’s signature spell, [Ho-white Nova]. What our Lord is trying to do is turn them into real stars." Baal then frowned. "But... he lacks the necessary matter to achieve that, and he can’t just steal that matter from the outside universe."

"Our Lord can just create it." She replied, and Baal shook his head. "No, he can’t. He needs all the energy he can have to evolve and get stronger. It is better to invest in his base power than in stars that could be used and consumed." He stared at her. "We need to separate the realm and manage his energy reserve."

She frowned. "You want to act without his permission? You want to split his stomach in half?" She extended her wings, and chains started showing up from her wrists. "You dare mess, with his inner sanctum?"

Baal stared at her and smiled. "Calm down, SISTER! We’re both divine Archangels. I didn’t say that we should do something unheard of. The same way he once separated the outside universe, we should separate this one to maintain balance." He looked up. "Heaven, Mortal, and Hell... Three different dimensions, all stacked on each other."

She lowered her hand. "So, we prepare what he already did." She looked down. "Fine, I’ll take Hell. You take Heaven." She then looked back, right toward Eris’s sun and the world orbiting it. "But... who will maintain the mortal world?"

"None; the Mortal Dimension shall be ruled by the mortals walking his land." Baal’s wings started growing bigger. "The Holy Dimension, Heaven. The Cursed Dimension, Hell. And the Mortal Dimension, The Midlands."

"Then let it be done." Ophan expanded her wings as well, and in the blink of an eye, a wave of magic spread through Arad’s stomach, setting boundaries and separating space itself. Eris, who was in her heaven, felt it, but she didn’t react. While she was Arad’s wife and had her heaven inside his stomach, she didn’t own the place, and those two knew how to take care of Arad’s world best, as they are literally his Archangels.

The separation only took an hour, but when it was done, it was as if nothing had changed. Eris’s heaven was still on the purple sun, and there was no fiery hell to be seen floating around. But the realm was indeed separated. If a mortal went to the sun and looked at it, they wouldn’t find Eris’s heaven there anymore, as it had been veiled into a whole different dimension that aligned with the same space.

The Holy Dimension was a vast white plane of shimmering light, a warm embrace with a cold breeze, and it was where all of the divine heavens of Arad’s wives were now located. The one controlling that space now was Baal, and only he could easily mold it by pulling power out of Arad’s soul, so everyone had to play by his rules.

Eris was the first to inspect the change, and she liked it a lot. With her heaven being shifted to the Holy Dimension, she didn’t need to waste divine energy to maintain it or make sure her power didn’t seep to the planet and burn the people living there. She could now relax, focus on her own star and power, and would even be able to practice in the void without accidentally erasing everything with a collapsing star.

The people living in the Mortal Dimension felt the change almost immediately as well, since the density of divine magic in the air dropped rapidly, and now they had to be directly linked to one of Arad’s wives to access holy magic. Mana also changed; in this case, it got even stronger, as it was the neutral state between the Holy and the Cursed, so the wizards got a huge buff.

Then, there was the lightless Hell. At that moment, there was nothing there. Just pure darkness with Ophan floating alone in it, holding the empty realm without anyone in it. But that loneliness didn’t last long, as while she floated, she suddenly felt someone sitting on her shoulders.

Ophan didn’t even need to look back, as she could easily sense the horrifying demonic magic on her shoulders. Kali was there in her orphan form, wrapping her legs around Ophan’s neck. "This place is empty, isn’t it?" Kali spoke, and Ophan gulped. Last time, she got beaten to a pulp by Diana, so having to deal with Kali was scary.

"It is..."

Kali pointed down with a finger. "Then, do you mind if I filled it up? I’ll build a decently sized realm, and appoint several Demon Lords to rule in it. When Pin is done with her mission, we can plop her here beside what I’ll build, and we can even add more realms since the space here is basically infinite."

Hearing that, Ophan gulped. "I don’t mind. In fact, that would be nice. But what about everything else? The Demon Lords you pick must be powerful enough to influence the space and control it."

Kali laughed. "Of course they will be able to do that. I was thinking of having Lunara and Merida build new realms for themselves here. Of course, I’ll supply them with enough demonic magic to achieve that." She jumped from above Ophan’s shoulders and landed on the void, transforming into her true demonic form.

Kali cracked her knuckles, looked down, and took a deep breath. She was absolutely, unequivocally, and undeniably the worst at building things because she is Destruction. But even she can at least put a few things together.

"Let’s start with a realm for Lunara. She is the Demon Lord of Severing, but since she is a wife like me... I was thinking of giving her a special promotion. Since severing covers slashing damage, let’s give her piercing and bludgeoning damage as well." Strands of golden light came out of her fingers, and she started weaving them together with her six arms like a spider, forming what could only be described as a golden tapestry of divine magic.

"The Demon Lord of Severing, Crushing, and Penetrating." Kali wove those types of destruction into the very fabric of the coming realm, and then added a silver touch. "But she is also a Moon Hare; that’s her Demonic Release, so let’s link this realm directly to that, and seal a demonic gate on it."

"You’re creating a whole realm?" Ophan couldn’t believe her eyes. She thought that only Creation could work this fast. "Of course, but if Isabelle was in her prime, she could’ve created this entire realm with just a thought. I here need to weave it from scratch, and even with my six hands, it’s taking a lot out of me."