The dragon's harem

Chapter 2358: Super Voids

As the people looked up at the shattered moon, many of them rushed to hide inside their houses, and panic was about to ensue if the vampires didn’t start calming everyone. Then came the drakainas, who flew across the sky, attempting to form a net of magic to catch anything that fell.

But nothing came down. The shattered pieces and meteors remained suspended in space as Arad knocked Godvia down, and watched in silence from space as her body rushed toward the ground, engulfed in flames.

He was there, staring down at the planet with glowing purple eyes, and the fragments of the shattered moon behind him stopped moving. The ones that orbited him slowed down, and even the falling Godvia got suspended in the air, as if carried by invisible tentacles.

"I cannot let you hit the ground. You’re far too hot to be allowed down there. The people cannot resist the curse." All of the stars in the sky faded away, and the fragments of the moon started moving closer to each other.

The moon reformed, slowly but surely, and only after a minute, it was full again and glowing bright blue from the radiation, bathing the entire world in its light. A few of the flying drakainas in the air looked up, saw Arad’s Nymph, and immediately recognized her. Their Lord was back.

As Arad lifted Godvia toward him, he looked at her half-burned human face and could tell she was still alive and well. But in the next fraction of a second, her body snapped, and her arms moved at blinding speed, rushing at Arad’s chest to strike him. She wasn’t done fighting yet. But as her hands were about to touch his chest, Arad didn’t even bother moving.

For a moment, she thought he gave up after using too much energy to fix the moon, but... she was wrong, far too wrong. She had no idea of the scale of the nightmarish monster she was facing, and now, she found out. Her arms moved through Arad’s body unhindered, and she couldn’t touch him. It was as if they were in a game, and he had no hit box. She knew what games were, as her prior human civilization was advanced enough to have them.

"I’m made of dark matter; we call it that because no one can see or interact with it." Arad stared down at her. "What you’re seeing is just a mere illusion formed by magic."

She growled. "Dark matter? The void force... I see, that why I, as a being of matter cannot even touch you." She clenched her fist. "But then, with enough gravity and energy, I should be able to reach you."

Arad smiled. "That’s true, but unless you’re the Queen of Stars, you’ll never be able to output enough to reach me." Arad glared at her, and her body got squeezed, as if she were tied by invisible hands.

"The universe is like cheese; the stars stick to each other thanks to gravity, and thus, super voids are left between them. Unlike all other void dragons, my stomach was special. I didn’t have a spatial pocket inside me, as that wouldn’t explain its near-infinite size."

As Arad looked up, titanic belts of stars started decorating the empty void. "I had a link engraved on my soul that led to one of the super voids, and we’re inside one. My stomach had always been one, and that’s why it looked to be so massive." His eyes shifted down to Godvia. "But now, having realized that, my control has extended to everything. Every single super void in the universe is now a part of my stomach."

His purple eyes shifted to black, and Godvia could almost feel her soul escaping her body. She didn’t know why those eyes scared her so much, but the reason was clear to many of the angels who made their way closer to watch. Those were the Lord’s Tenebrous Eyes.

"It doesn’t end there, but the entire universe is also engulfed by a thick layer of void, the same way a planet would have an atmosphere. That void is also a super void, and a part of my stomach." He glared down at her. "It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are, or what you are. You’ll always be inside my stomach, inside me."

"That’s impossible. That would make you a being on Amaterasu’s level." Godvia growled, and Arad smiled. "Raw stats, maybe. But she’ll still humiliate and beat me to a pulp. I just don’t have enough experience and haven’t lived long enough to be able to beat her in a direct clash."

As Arad said that, Amaterasu appeared from behind his back. "Come on, I’m not going to hurt you. In fact, I’m quite glad. Thanks to you taking control of those super voids, now I feel the gas I had inside me is finally out. You’re not only helping me hold the universe together, but also forming a protective barrier around it."

Godvia paled as she saw Amaterasu just show up like it was nothing, but Arad looked back at her and saw that she was still wearing a blindfold to cover her eyes. Even so, thanks to those eyes, she now knew that he was self-aware.

She knew he was aware he was AO, and he knew she knew. "If I have the power, I’ll help." Arad replied and turned his gaze back to Godvia. "For you, I’ll get a planet where you can live in peace, and I’ll ask Merlin to see if she can make a barrier to hold your curse off."

"So..." Godvia looked at Amaterasu. "You had her backing you up?"

Amaterasu smiled. "I didn’t back him. I just fed him. He is the one backing me up now. Thanks to his help, we even managed to catch a victory in the war. I don’t think any other void dragon can match him, so you’re quite lucky to end up caught by him." She then looked up. "Even so... it didn’t matter if you fought him here or in the mortal world. His dark matter is everywhere."

She then smiled. "Do you get it? This is just the dark matter. A Nymph’s power. His other sides haven’t woken up yet." She tapped Arad on the shoulder. "And he is just a Mature Adult dragon."

Arad looked at Amaterasu, and then at Godvia. True, if he is like this as a mere Mature Adult, what will he look like as an Elder Dragon? Probably he’ll grow large enough that the universe can fit inside his stomach and that he will be able to easily create a new one, or take the existing one and swim with it in the outer void the same way a void drakaina swims in the universe with a world inside her stomach.