The dragon's harem

Chapter 805 Lydia’s Curse

Another clone of the abomination walked into the outer sheds of the school where the artificers’ class was. The place looked like a large garage filled with magic gems, half-built golems, and strange machinery that most people in the world couldn’t tell what they were.

“A lot of humans here, I’m starving for souls.” He smiled and all the students stared at him, confused. But his smile didn’t last long as his eyes opened wide, staring in silence at the large man standing in the middle of the shed talking with one of the girls.

Arad’s clone was there, talking with Mira.

“I’ll deal with him. It won’t take long, you keep drinking them. Sorry, but I might need the extra power.” He patted her head.

“You are supposed to be fighting the main body.” The abomination gasped.

Arad turned toward him and started slowly walking. The teacher ran in, “Wait, who is that?” He asked Arad.

“Didn’t the chairman call all the teachers into her office?” Arad looked.

“He doesn’t listen to anything when focusing on making something.” Mira replied in the back.

“Betty called?” The teacher gasped and Arad walked past him. “That won’t matter anymore. Stay here and protect the students.” He said that, but he knew this was the last abomination clone on the loose, if he handled him, the place would be safe again.

Arad’s muscles started expanding and his feet began cracking the ground as he walked, a faint purple aura started burning beneath his clothes, and the small specs of dust showed in the sun rays burned around his body.

“Well, it doesn’t matter. Humans can’t handle this well.” The abomination started lifting his arm, ready to blast Arad and everyone behind him.

CLACK! Arad instantly closed the distance with a sword swing, slicing the abomination’s arm from between the middle and index finger up to the shoulder.

It was then that the abomination knew he messed up, he noticed that the sword Arad used was made of adamantine, a dull metal, but it’ll grow sharper the tighter the user’s grip is. It’s a weapon that grows stronger proportionally to the user’s strength, and for it to grow sharp enough to cut his skin, flesh, and bones, was an absurd feat.

At that moment, the ground shook and all the metal equipment in the shed lifted off the ground and smacked everywhere, a bright light flashed across the windows as a wave of heat washed over the whole place. It was Lydia’s [Solar Wind]

In the moment the students gasped, Arad grabbed the abomination by the neck and teleported away, leaving everyone unable to comprehend what had just happened amid the chaos. Only Mira sat in the back, sipping on mana potions, hoping Arad would be okay.

Arad’s clone that was in the university flew with one of the abomination’s clones toward the forest where Lydia was fighting.

“Why! You are supposed to be fighting the main body!” The abomination clone growled, glaring at Arad’s face.

“Unlike you, I have people to protect in this place. It would’ve been bad if I wasn’t around.” Arad clenched his palm on the abomination’s neck, and the monster swung a fist at his face.

Arad opened his mouth and bit the abomination’s fist off like it was nothing, glaring at him with glowing purple eyes.

“We’re going to finish this off.” He threw him down at into Lydia’s divine flames, and the abomination hit his other clone with an immense force.

Arad landed beside Lydia, “Brother locked the place; no one would see or feel what happens here.” He said and ripped his shirt off, “Except Jack, he’s over there preparing a trap, keep him in mind while attacking.”

Lydia stared to the side and spotted him in the distance, unlike Arad, she didn’t have strong senses and was merely detecting the abomination by sniffing him out with her divine sense.

“Can you fight? This is the clone, right?” Lydia asked, taking a step forward with her armor burning in divine magic. fr𝐰ebnov𝐞𝐥.𝐜o𝗺

“It’s like a left and right hand to me, they are the same. But this is my left hand.” Arad cracked his shoulder.

“Makes sense.” Lydia’s divine flame faded and revealed something stunning, her fire didn’t burn the forest or the wildlife, the energy was targeted straight at the abomination. But that won’t last for long as the ground beneath her feet starts cracking and the plants began to wither and die.

Tar-like black and red glowing liquid dripped from Lydia’s sword and started spreading on the ground, rotting everything it touched from trees to animals and the abomination clone stood baffled. Her armor turned from silver into rustic black, her hair shifted from blond to white and her golden eyes glowed with a disturbing red and purple hellish flare.

“How could this be?! No, I know what this is! Alice….Fucking Alice Lisworth, that damnable devil lord.” He roared.

After Alice found out that Asmodeus, also known as the devil lord of the nine hells was in fact Amaterasu’s archon, a fallen angel that could fully utilize her divine power, she was stunned. But it quickly dawned on her that the devils were merely the jailers of hell, the ones keeping the sinners from jumping back to the world.

Using the connection she got to Alice from the hells, she can use her medium to receive Amaterasu’s power. This wasn’t uncommon, there were a lot of paladins and clerics that had an angle as a medium between them and their god for many reasons, one of them being a slight difference in interests.

In Lydia’s case, she was just unable to control the reflection of Amaterasu’s power and would kill herself if she tried to harness it alone, thus the lord of the nine hells, Asmodeus is tailoring the magic to fit a human body.

Divine and curse magic were two faces of the same coin, and this was a fact rarely known in the mortal world and the only one in history to manage to control both at the same time was Asmodeus.

Lydia would stop pulling divine magic from Amaterasu, clear everything out of her body to zero, and then pull the curse from Asmodeus, in that way she can have one at a time, but not both. This means she loses the healing capabilities of the divine magic, but instead gains Asmodeus’s curse which has a higher damage output.

Arad clenched a fist with a smile, “Let’s finish them quickly.”

Lydia pointed her sword at the two abominations, “Yeah.”

Doma smiled in Arad’s head. ^[Asmodeus’s curse is Rot. Everything that the sun doesn’t touch rots and withers away.]

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As two abominations roared, Lydia’s sword flashed, unleashing a beam of condensed black flames. ^[Asmodeus always mixes her rot curse with hellfire and the gravity of Amaterasu’s sun, this results in a beam that rots, burns, and rips everything apart.]^

The beam flashed between the abominations that barely dodged it, and it exploded behind them in a massive flare. Lydia wasn’t done and she swung her blade to the side, following one of the abominations with the still-firing beam.

The other abomination lunged at Lydia, but he forgot the second monster there. Arad grabbed him by the face and threw him into the beam.

The abomination burned but he immediately flew away by conjuring wings on his back. He stared at Arad with a raging face, “You fucking dragon! Get out of our way!”

“Hell no. You two are the strongest that I detected, fighting you requires a quiet place like this.” Arad lunged forward and swung his sword at the abomination, cutting the wings off. “You lack the strength needed to fight me. And doesn’t have enough defenses to resist Lydia’s curse. We two are your worst enemy.” Arad smiled.

“Fool! You’re the same as us!” The abomination swung around and kicked Arad in the neck, sending him flying toward Lydia’s beam. “Burn in the hell lord’s curse and die, you disgusting Asgorath born!”

The abomination being chased by Lydia’s beam smiled. Once she shuts off the beam to save Arad, he’ll run straight toward her and take her head off.

Lydia clenched her hands on the sword and roared, the beam growing far larger and stronger. The two abominations gasped, but their surprise only grew bigger when a second beam flew out of the first beam and burned the abomination that was running away.

“You bastard!” The abomination in the sky grew a second pair of wings and tried to escape, he saw it with his own eyes, that dragon Arad was eating the beam and shooting it back out of his hands.

^[Lydia is a lesser curse user than me. Feel free to swallow her curse so I can redirect it anywhere, you’re immune to curses cast by a curse user with less skill than myself. I don’t know about Asmodeus herself though, I never fought her.]^ Arad and Doma discovered this in their last fight with Lydia when she showed them this power.

Before the abomination could escape, Jack appeared beside him in mid-air. “Surprise!” He wrapped strings around him, stabbing him with several magic-blocking rods.

“How did you manage?”

“Not gonna tell you, die.” He stabbed him with the wakizashi, the divine sword.