The dragon's harem

Chapter 2359: Queen Aron

What falls under the Dark Matter? Eris thought as she saw the unconscious Godvia being carried away to the newly dug lair that they prepared for her in a desolate, planet-sized Meteor. She had just left Arad back at the Private Quarter, talking with Isdis and the rest of the queens about the current situation of the empire.

If she and her angels weren’t the only ones resistant to the curse, she would’ve been sitting there in the meeting with them. She really wanted to see what changed about Arad’s Nymph form.

Unlike most of Arad’s evolution, the Nymph’s powers came out at their fullest, and he didn’t seem to need time to get used to them. He just toyed with Godvia a bit just to mess with her. In fact, right now, Eris was certain that the Nymph could easily beat her.

Back in the Private Quarter, Arad sat on his massive chair, looking toward the table in front of him. They had prepared a chair that could hold a ten-meter giant, but sadly, Arad’s Nymph body was only three meters tall, so he looked tiny on it.

While not all of his wives were present, most of them were present. "So politically, everything is fine?" He looked at Isdis, and she nodded. "Yes, we’re basically untouchable now. Most of the kingdoms and empires in the mortal world won’t dare get in our way."

"Did any abomination show up?" He asked, and Kali shrugged. "None showed up here. If they did, my demons would’ve been on them immediately." She smiled. "But since the world is fine, what about you? You only got this body now?"

Arad looked down at himself. He was a Nymph now, and also a divine being.

"Right now, this Nymph body is a Goddess of Darkness, Nothingness, and the Ineffable Universal Bodies. By darkness, I mean dark matter, which is both matter that doesn’t interact with reality and matter that would annihilate when touching real matter." He extended his hand forward, and a stream of darkness flowed out of it like tar. "It’s usually invisible, but I’m making it dark so you can see it."

He then erased that dark matter and conjured a stream of black mist. "This is the void, the state of nothing, and the same as the elemental power of void dragons. Basically, space itself. I can bend and control it at will, and also impose my divine power to force nothingness on something."

Moving from the void, he finally reached the last part of his portfolio, which was the most complex of it. "Ineffable Universal Bodies... what this means is that anything that is unknowable in the universe."

With a simple flick of his wrist, he summoned a massive black sword and ignited it with dark red flames. "The same way there are stars and planets of regular matter, there are many more of them made of dark matter, and those are the Ineffable Universal Bodies that I control. This blade is made from a crushed antimatter star, the same way I could make swords from black holes." He pointed it toward Kali.

Kali smiled. "This blade doesn’t cut, crush, nor pierce. It annihilates anything made of regular matter it touches and releases massive amounts of energy. Simply swinging it through the air unprotected will unleash a blast powerful enough to scorch an entire continent."

"So..." Merida looked at him in silence for a second. "Isn’t that what you could do before?"

Arad smiled. "Well, it’s similar. But there is a catch: I don’t need to waste energy to crush matter now. All I need to do is activate the dark matter that already exists, and I can easily wipe an entire planet." He then made the sword disappear. "Also, thanks to this authority, I have access to almost the same scale of power and control as Amaterasu."

"What about your blinding beauty?" Mira asked, and he shrugged. "It’s even stronger, but I won’t be using it unless I’m forced to. It’s just a one-hit kill now. There aren’t that many beings who can fathom the expanse of dark matter."

Isdis looked at him. "Okay, so let’s focus on the present. What should we call you? The original plan was to declare the Nymph as one of the queens to allow you to operate safely. Should we still go with that?"

All of the wives seemed to agree that that would be easier to handle than explaining how many forms Arad had.

Arad nodded. "What should we call it then?" He threw a glance at everyone, and they started throwing names back. Everyone had a new idea after the other, until one of the maids spoke.

"Why... not call her Aron? It’s the name you used back at the magic university." That maid was one of their classmates at the time, and she seems to have managed to make it into the maids by gaining Mira’s favor.

Hearing that, Arad smiled. "That might work well. It’ll hide the facts, but still allow those who know the relationship between me and Aron to guess. Queen Aron is it then." He then threw a glance toward the maid. "It’s been a while, Fia. How was Mira treating you?"

Fia smiled. "Are you trying to get me into trouble?" She then giggled. "She worked me to the bone. I spent days drenched in sweat helping her in the forge and workshop, and I ended up with a few more than a lot of wounds." She shook her hands. "Sadly, I got no scars to show you, as Lady Mira’s divine magic can erase it all."

Mira looked at her with a smile. "That’s it, you’ll be melting glass for the next month. Those windows won’t make themselves."

Arad clapped his hands. "Well then, since we’re all back here. Let’s train a bit. Who wants to fight me first? Don’t worry, I’ll hold back as much as I can."

They all stared at him with glowing eyes, and Kali was about to jump on the table and claim her turn first, but then Mira pulled her back by the hair. "I’m going first. I’ve been training for a while. Isabelle, come here!"

Isabelle, who was sitting on her own chair at the corner of the table, sighed. "I’m a primordial divine..." She then stood, turned into pure light, and flew into Mira’s hand, taking the form of a massive sledgehammer.

Arad stood. "Very well, but you won’t come at me alone. Camilla! Join her; you’ve grown stronger since last time I fought you, so get up and show me what you can do."

Camilla, who stood at the corner of the room, gasped. "Yes! My lord!"