The dragon's harem

Chapter 2357: Shattering Moon

Godvia gasped, her eyes forced wide open as the impact of the punch radiated across her entire body. She had hit the moon and bounced to the side, ending up in space. "What was that... the speed, the power, and... why is he a woman?"

Her eyes looked to the side, barely catching a glimpse of Arad’s face as he flashed toward her, kicking her in the guts with enough force to send her back to the moon. And when she hit the ground, her entire body bounced back, but thanks to her titanic draconic weight, she managed to stay on the surface this time. "Monster!" She growled, looking up, but the moment she did that, Arad landed in front of her.

"Guh," Growling, she lifted her arms, trying to be as fast as she could, and finally, she managed to block Arad’s punch. But instead of Arad’s attack stopping, his fist shattered her arms and hit her in the face, almost snapping her neck.

^He’s fast...^

Arad didn’t slow at all, as his other fist hit her with a left hook, and when she lifted her arms to blast him with a nuclear burst, the burst happened, but her arms were torn in the next fraction of a second, and she ended up getting blasted back by her own explosion.

Hitting a massive boulder, Godvia felt as if she was about to throw up, but she held it in and healed her arms, looking at the fire and dust. "Where is he?" And there he was, standing in the middle of the fire as if nothing had happened. His hair remained smooth, his black robe didn’t even have a scratch, and he looked like he was relaxing in a ballroom instead of fighting. Even that blast didn’t hit him.

Godvia’s yellow hair started glowing, and then her skin cracked. "Fine! Lord of this world. I’ll show you what an Elder Drakaina can do." The ground around them started cracking, and flames rushed out, soon followed by an endless torrent of magma. That wasn’t just molten stone, but molten uranium mixed with several other metals, more radioactive than anything Arad had ever seen, besides a real star.

Arad walked across the moon’s molten surface, looking up at the planet above with a smile on his face as the magma exploded everywhere around him. "Baal and Ophan did a good job."

"You!" Godvia shouted from afar as she flew toward him, seeing that none of her magma was getting close to him. "Burn!" The magma around Arad exploded, splashing itself toward him, but he managed to dodge it all with a simple and graceful strife to the side. "Burst!"

As the ground beneath Arad exploded, the entire moon shook, and Godvia tried to locate him among the flames and debris. But she couldn’t find him; not even her draconic senses were enough. She then quickly found where he was when he kicked the back of her head and sent her toward the ground like a meteor.

As she hit the ground, Arad gracefully landed far away from her and sat on a boulder. She, on the other hand, roared as she stood up. "That has to have hit you!"

"It didn’t." Arad replied with a smile, and then disappeared from her vision. "You’re too slow." He was beside her before she could even know it, and when she tried to spin around and hit him with a backhand, he caught her wrist and punched her in the face. Since he had her wrist in his grasp, she didn’t get sent flying, and he immediately unleashed a barrage of punches, playing with her like a paddle ball.

Knowing that she can’t easily escape his grasp, she cut her arm off and flew back. "You’re not fast. You’re teleporting." She regenerated her arm, and her hair stood up. "That’s cheating."

"You’re also wrong. I’m neither moving nor teleporting." Arad extended his hand forward. "You won’t understand even if I explained it. So do your best. Show me what you can do."

The veins on Godvia’s face and neck started bulging as her entire body burned with a blue glow. "Fine, I’ll show you what a true disaster is. I’ll burn you and this place all to ash." All of the magma that was rushing out of the ground started glowing, and Arad looked down for a fraction of a second and smiled.

The magma that Godvia created wasn’t targeting Arad from the start; it was aiming for the moon itself, rapidly seeping deep within its crust and eventually going for the core. Now, after just a few long moments, the magma had filled the moon’s inside and spread across its entirety, and Godvia is the one holding the switch.

Anyone else would’ve noticed that if they didn’t kill Godvia now, she’d detonate the entire moon from the inside, and Arad did see that as expected. But instead of trying to stop her, he stood there and waited for a few extra fractions of a second, letting her pull the trigger.

Light burst out of the moon’s crust, and the entire thing went up in flames, shattering into countless pieces as the explosion was massive enough to give the people living on the planet nightmares as they saw the entire moon cracking into fragments in the night sky, followed by a torrent of flames, ash, and blinding light.

Godvia floated in space alone, gasping and sweating. There was no air here, so she had to rely on her nuclear metabolism for energy, and that was quite draining. She could survive for thousands of years, but not fight at full power for long.

"This... should’ve gotten him." She looked at the debris with a worried face, as if expecting Arad to fly out of it and punch her in the face. But what he did was worse.

"That was a good one. Sadly, it didn’t hit." Arad was there, sitting on a floating rock, unscathed. "This might’ve killed anyone else beside me."

She stared at him, dumbfounded. "Impossible. That should’ve at least hit you."

"It didn’t." Arad replied immediately. You failed to account for one thing. "This is the inside of my stomach." He stood up and opened his arms. All of the shattered fragments of the moon got engulfed with a faint purple glow and started orbiting him.

"But even if we weren’t here, this still wouldn’t have hit me." The debris orbiting Arad accelerated and turned into burning meteors. "Can you still fight? Don’t tell me that was your all."

As the meteor shower rushed toward her, Godvia turned back into her draconic form and accelerated back, flapping her wings and unleashing massive bursts of nuclear explosions to shatter the meteors trying to hit her, and got faster.

But no matter how fast she got, she wasn’t able to run away from the endless rain coming at her. The meteors hit her, burst, and she fell, dropping down toward the world, engulfed in flames.