The dragon's harem

Chapter 2361: Mira and The Hammer of Creation

Arad had just taken all of the paladins down, so only Camilla and Mira were left. The two charged at him simultaneously, and they weren’t slowing down, not one bit. With each swing of her sword and claws, Camilla got faster and faster, and Mira followed right after her with one heavy blow after the other.

With how much Arad limited himself for this fight, Camilla can’t kill him with one hit, but Mira can. The Mixture of her divine body, the Hammer of Creation, and a massive flood of divine magic is enough to easily blow right through him now.

A demigod, no matter how weak, is still a demigod with enough force to be nearly unstoppable. Since Mira wasn’t a fighter, many people, especially those working with her in the workshop, thought her divine body just made her freakishly strong and durable, which wasn’t anywhere near the scale of her power.

To her hands, steel feels like soft dough, her skin can easily endure the heat of molten metal like its just lukewarm water, and even a massive anvil feels to her as if it was a tiny soft pillow. Then there was the divine magic she had, which was already several times stronger than anything a paladin like Camilla could output.

CLANG! Arad tried to block Mira’s strike with his sword, but he still ended up getting sent flying back, with the bones in his arms ringing. He really wanted to use more power, but it wouldn’t be fair that way. He had to keep himself restrained to their level, which wasn’t easy at all.

Seeing that her full-power strike wasn’t enough to shatter his sword or break his arms, Mira frowned. She had fought Eris before in training, and even she reacted more to getting hit than Arad does. "You’re really like a cat." She started swinging her hammer around. "You don’t show it when you’re hurt."

"Of course I won’t. Showing weakness in a fight is an invitation for a finisher." Arad replied with a smile, and he was right. If he had shown up that Mira’s strike hurt him, she probably would’ve kept pushing and putting pressure on him to finish the fight up, which would’ve been bad.

When Mira stopped swinging, divine magic burned from her arms and flowed to the hammer, reaching the head and making it even bigger and glowing golden with light.

[Creation Magic: Nail Rain] She swung the hammer at the ground, and the golden light shattered like glass. Arad looked up, and he could see millions of steel nails emerging above him, which immediately shot down with enough force to pierce through three feet of the stone ground.

Creation magic, Isabelle’s specialty. She can directly turn divine magic into matter that won’t dissipate over time like what happens with regular magic. It was basically the opposite of Kali’s destruction, which destroys that matter.

Arad swung his sword up, sending a wave of black anti-matter flames that burned all of the nails coming toward him as he jumped back, getting some distance away from Mira.

This was the true start of this fight, when Mira and Camilla were finally going all out.

Mira screamed, reversing the flow of the divine magic between her and Camilla, so instead of only Camilla pulling divine magic from Mira, now Mira could pull power from Camilla. And she didn’t pull divine magic.

Mira’s muscles grew larger, and her bones immediately became denser, and with a single leap, she covered the distance between her and Arad. "Pulling the properties of beasts..." Arad smiled as he deflected her hammer, only for her to kick him in the face and send him flying into the air.

He had never expected that a day would come when Mira, of all people, would kick him up to the clouds, but here he was. And while he was mid-air, Camilla emerged by his side as she had jumped after him, and her massive bastard sword was already burning with enough divine magic to make even lesser gods worried.

[Divine Detonation]

Hitting Arad directly, the divine magic exploded into a titanic blast, pushing the clouds away as the fireball grew larger and larger, and Arad himself was sent right back to the ground toward Mira, who was ready to smack him away like a baseball.

But it was then that Arad’s sword ignited with black flames, and Mira knew it was going to hurt. With a single swing, the flames rushed down, and in the next fraction of a second, a massive mushroom cloud erupted as the flames touched the air and ground, exploding with enough force to crack and shake the nearby mountains.

"LADY MIRA!" Camilla, who was blasted away by the shockwave, screamed, but she didn’t have the time to worry about Mira as Arad was already upon her, and she lifted her sword to block at the last second, getting hit with a blast herself.

The black flames didn’t burn; they reacted with matter and combusted back into pure energy and heat. Blocking them with her sword only resulted in her sword and forearms being erased and turned into pure heat.

As she hit the ground, she looked up and could see Arad falling down at her, charging a second hit to finish her off. But before he could hit her, Mira’s hammer hit him right in the face, sending him flying aside, while the hammer itself remained above Camilla. A fraction of a second later, Mira’s body got pulled toward the hammer, and she landed right beside Camilla.

Looking at her, Camilla gasped. Mira’s left half was burnt to a crisp. Such wounds would’ve killed any regular mortal, even seasoned fighters. "I got in time." Mira smiled as her wounds started rapidly healing, and she tapped Camilla’s chest with her hammer.

Almost instantly, Camilla’s forearm regenerated alongside her gauntlets. Arad, who landed far away, looked at them with a smile. "Impressive healing for a demigoddess."

"Creation assisted in it." She hit the air with the hammer, and her divine magic rang like a bell, getting forged right back into a bastard sword similar to the one Camilla was using. "But really, aren’t you a bit too rough with me?"

Arad laughed. "Do you really think so?" His eyes turned black. "I’ll get even rougher if you don’t pull it out. I can already see it burning inside you."

Mira smiled as she took a step forward. "Of, fine. I’ll show it to you." She lifted the hammer up. "It’s still imperfect, unfinished, ugly, and unusable. It’s like an ugly piece of art that’s worth nothing... but... it’ll still do the job fine." Hitting the ground with the hammer shaft, the entire sky turned golden.

[Elemental Expansion:...]

[Great Equalizer]