The dragon's harem

Chapter 872: A Quick Trip



Matilda's mother looked at Arad with a gentle smile, "I'm not telling anyone...I can tell at a glance that you're not here to cause trouble, but I can't be too careful." She lifted her palm and black lightning rumbled from her nails, reaching as high as the trees. "I'm just testing your patience. Void dragons are the most human of dragonkind, I remember those words well."

"You still want to fight?" Arad cried and she lunged at him, suddenly accelerating as fast as her black lightning. But even such a fast attack wasn't enough, Arad dodged her strike and glared at her. "I thought we were done here?"

"Told you, I'm trying to test what kind of person you are. I haven't even used my bloodline yet," She stared at him with a smile. Most dragons get enraged when taken lightly, but Arad didn't seem to reach no matter how much she taunted him, on the opposite, he seemed more concerned about trying to dodge without hitting her.

"Fine." Arad stared at her, his eyes glowing purple and pink, "Let's pretend this never happened."

The world around Matilda's mother changed and she found herself standing back at the front door, Arad looking at her from behind Zara and Matilda. "Are you, all right?" He asked with a smile.

She looked around, confused, "Wait...what?" She gasped.

"What up with you?" Zara looked at her, "Did you get sick while I was out?" He approached her and touched her forehead, "You're a bit hot, probably a fever. Rest inside, I tend to the guests."

"That isn't it." She looked at her hands, her mana had dropped almost to half, that fight with Arad did indeed happen, but why was she standing there?

Mira blinked twice and looked at Arad, immediately hitting him with her elbow to the liver, "What did you do?"

"She attacked me first." He whispered to her.

"When did she do that? We just arrived." Mira looked at him with a suspicious glare.

"Our fight barely lasted nine seconds, I don't like to last any longer anyway." He smiled and Mira quickly understood. "Doma's magic...don't just use that whenever you feel like it, it's confusing."

As everyone walked inside, Arad had to walk sideways through the door to fit in, just like Zara. Both of them were just too large and had to get their own couches to sit on. Matilda rushed to the kitchen to make something as her mother was kicked back to her room by her father to rest. Mira couldn't just sit down so she went to help her alongside Selina.

"Sorry for the mess, I doubt they expected any guests." Zara said with a smile, looking at Arad.

Arad looked around, the wooden walls were covered with beautifully tanned and lined monster leather. The couches and pillows were all filled with cockatrice and a type of feathers that he didn't know, making them extremely soft. Even the cups were made of extremely thin steel and had handles from monster horns.

The house might look primitive at first glance, but everything here might be worth more than a horse. Especially the couches they are sitting on, the leather on its own shouldn't be cheap.

"I wonder what Roberta would say?" He smiled...but quickly remembered something, "Wait..." He stood.

"What's up?" Zara looked at him.

"We forgot something, I'll be back." Arad rushed out of the house and headed to Isdis's carriage.

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Sitting in the carriage, Isdis sighed, "Why can't I go with them?" She looked at Merlin. "You're the princess, you can't just go to Zara's house with Arad, that'll raise suspicions." Merlin replied, "Just sit tight and wait. We'll get back with him tomorrow."

Isdis growled, leaning on the table, "Why...I don't want to wait until tomorrow."

Isdis's carriage door opened up, and Arad was standing there. The guards recognized him and let him enter. "Isdis, where is Roberta, wasn't she supposed to come with you? I thought she was in a different carriage, but now I noticed that her smell had grown weaker."

Isdis looked at him, "Yeah, she was supposed to come with us, but had to stay due to work. Don't worry, she wrote us a ton of papers and guides to follow. They are kept in a separate carriage." She pointed at one of the carriages in the back.

Arad sighed, "To think..." That was the carriage from which he smelled Roberta. "I'll go bring her out. She shouldn't be left out."

"We're almost two thousand kilometers away. How long will it take you to go back and forth." Isdis stood, "She indeed looked sad when work piled out...but if it'll take you more than a day..."

"One hour at most. Even when carrying her, I shouldn't take more than four hours." Arad turned around and cracked his neck, "I'll be back, go tell Mira and Matilda to cook for more people." He jumped into the sky and disappeared.

"Got it!" Isdis said with an excited face, "You've heard him Merlin, we're going to stay with them."

Merlin sighed, "This would cause a lot of trouble..."

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Arad teleported 40 km away and shifted into his draconic form, taking flight amongst a flock of Pterodactyls, with a single bite, he ate one of them, and then another, and another, a small snack before the trip.

The Pterodactyl flock quickly scattered as they started getting eaten by this huge dragon, and they looked back, only to see him about to accelerate. With a single wing flap, a shockwave burst from his body as he flew into the clouds faster than sound.

Such a massive creature shouldn't be able to move that fast, but those are dragons, and why they are feared.

Back in Alina, Roberta was walking with Lyla, Mira's mother through the large open market of Alina with Sebas guarding them. "The market is doing fine..." Roberta sighed, "I'm glad there are no problems. I'd expected more issues to arise with Arad's village opening its own market, but it seems there aren't any."

Lyla looked at her, "Of course, the people living there aren't from Alina. The market's

customer base didn't change."

As they walked, Sebas suddenly stopped and gently bowed, "Master, what a surprise, I didn't expect to see you here." Arad was standing there before them.

"Roberta, mother Lyla. It's been a while." He approached them with a smile.

"Wait, you're supposed to be in the beast kingdom by now." Roberta gasped.

"Mother..." Lyla blushed, "Come on...how is Mira doing?"

"Mira is doing fine." He looked at them, "I noticed that Roberta was missing and I came ton/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

pick her up."

"What?" Roberta sighed, "I can't go, a new dungeon appeared to the east and I'm working with the guild and Baltos to deal with it." She shook her head, "Someone had to do the work, I

can't just leave."

Arad looked at the side of the street, a flower was growing from the cracks in the sidewalk. A tiny fairy floated around Arad and sat on his shoulder, "I'd love it if that dungeon got cleared. It's hurting my back as it's neither fully inside me nor outside. I can't stretch with it on."

"Loci says the dungeon should be destroyed. Get your thing ready, I'll be back in a few minutes." He disappeared again and the two looked at each other.

"Where is he going? To check the dungeon?" Lyla asked and Roberta nodded. "Probably..."

"You two better get ready. A simple dungeon won't keep master busy for long." Sebas smiled, "It might be a ten-layered dungeon, but all it's good for is being a small waste of time." As he said those words, the ground beneath them shook as a pillar of light illuminated the sky. The people cried, thinking it was the spell of some wizard.

"That has to be Master Arad clearing the dungeon, you better hurry." He started walking and the tow rushed after him. They first stopped by Roberta's house as it was the closet and she picked some of her things. She already had them prepared for the trip.

"Sebas, please head back to the castle and inform the ministers and everyone else of my departure. Since it's with lord Arad, it can't be helped, they have to finish work on their own." She smiled and Sebas shook his head, "I'll take you to Lady Lyla's house first."

Sebas did take them to Lyla's house so she could pick up her things and then left for the castle, Arad should be back any second now, so they aren't in any danger. Unlike Roberta, Lyla had no idea about what was going on so she didn't know what to take and what to leave. Roberta started telling her about how hot and humid the beast kingdom is, and that it tends to rain a lot there. With that information, she slowly packed her things.

CRACK! As they were inside, they heard something loud, the window on the lower floor

shattered.

"Finally, that old man left." The man who barged inside with a bunch of thugs smiled, "Get them, we can't negotiate with Baron Orion without something to hurt him with." They've been bribing and threatening people to be their watch, that way, even Sebas couldn't notice

anything strange.

Roberta and Lyla rushed downstairs, and they saw the thugs inside, "There they are...tie them." The man said with a smile, but the door behind him opened, Arad walked inside with dust still dripping from his shoulders as he just finished clearing the dungeon.

"Mother Lyla... Roberta?" He said, towering over the thugs.

"Arad! They are thugs, they said something about tying us down." Roberta gasped, pointing

at them, "And they broke Lyla's window."

Thud! Arad grabbed the leader's head, "You'll do what to my mother?"