The dragon's harem

Chapter 896: Cat Fight

With one step forth, Arad approached the large hot bath and slowly walked in, finally taking a seat. Now that his muscles have recovered, he’s able to move better than before. “Rest for a bit.” Astrid said as she looked at him from the showers, “Warm up your bones a bit. All that you need now is food and rest.”

Arad cracked his neck and back, looking at his hands. He stood in the water and Astrid tilted her head, “I said to sit up…”

Arad moved, attempting to take a step forward. His body suddenly disappeared, and his foot landed in the corner of the bath. A shockwave burst where he stood, and it clapped like thunder. Everyone in the bath cried in surprise, staring at what they thought was another explosion.

The speed of mana was a third of the speed of light, teleportation magic seems instantaneous, but it isn’t. The mana speed limit is its limiting factor. But what Arad is beginning to grasp now, the art of accelerating instantly will allow him to surpass that if his base speed allows it. Right now, Arad could accelerate from zero to 1500meter/second {Around 1640Yard/second or 4921 feet/second in elvish} in a thousandth of a second, and stop at the same rate.

“ARAD! Don’t stand naked over there, come back here!” Mira called him from the hot bath and he looked back, smiling. “I’m on my way.” He did the same, accelerating and stopping almost immediately, but this time, there was no shockwave. Using his void, he erased the air around his body to prevent the sonic boom from occurring. It was a single, silent step. frёeωebɳovel.com

Arad sat beside Mira and leaned on the bath’s edge, looking at the ceiling with a deep sigh. “He was too strong. But I got a plan to defeat him tomorrow, this training won’t last long.” He smiled.

“That won’t be happening.” Frida started approaching them, and Mira immediately jumped to sit on Arad’s lap. She glared at Frida, and she sat on the opposite side of the bath. “I’m not getting closer to him.” She giggled.

Isdis also approached, looking at them, “Mira, that’s my place.”

Mira stood and moved out of the way, letting Isdis sit on Arad’s lap. Since he and Mira spend a lot of time together at the university, Isdis who was left home barely gets any time with Arad, which gave her priority in what little time they got together.

“You lot really seem to get along.” Astrid approached and sat beside her sister, putting one leg on another, and looked at Arad and his wives. “Don’t they fight a lot among themselves?”

“Oh, they do, and a lot.” Arad replied with a giggle, “Mira loves to cook meat a lot, and she always gets yelled at by Aella for not opening the windows. Isdis’s sense of cold is a bit off and she prefers it to be a bit colder, which is uncomfortable to the rest. There are another two, Eris is the opposite of Isdis and she’s always emitting heat, she also occasionally sets furniture ablaze when playing with her magic. The one they don’t fight with a lot is called Merida, probably since she makes and fixes all of their clothes.”

“I mean more like catfights.” Astrid shook her face, “You really seem to be keeping them well together. It’s hard to have multiple wives and have them agree and be on good terms. Mother always complained about it, but she seemed grateful that it seemed to be working fine on her part.”

“There is no need to fight amongst ourselves…” Isdis looked away, “It’s in fact better for us to get along, we can then have some respite.” Remembering the nights with Arad, her hips began itching. Even though she looked forward to it, she wasn’t that fond of the fact it could last hours. Only Eris and Merida seem to be able to withstand Arad’s full affection. If someone like her got Arad all for herself, she’d never walk again after three days.

“Yeah. The more the merrier, right?” Mira agreed with Isdis, a wry smile on her face. They can’t even tell Arad to make it shorter, as it indeed takes him hours to finish. That was simply due to the large gap of strength, which made the moves themselves not stimulating enough for Arad unless he ramps up quite a bit, which only Merida and Eris could withstand.

Outside the bath, Lyla was sitting with Hati. They were drinking just seconds ago, and wouldn’t have stopped of Hati’s daughters didn’t snatch the drinks away. Those two women had even started crying like babies, their milk snatched away.

“Can you two get a grip on yourselves a bit?” One of the Hati’s daughters growled, glaring at her mother, “Don’t get drunk.”

Hati shook her face and her expression cleared, “Of course, I won’t. This amount of alcohol only affects me when I’m actively letting it do. How large do you think my liver is?” Hati giggled, “It’s massive, and will never get damaged.” She patted Lyla’s head, “She’s been drinking and crying a lot. I had to listen to her a bit.”

“About that man?” The daughter sighed. “Why do we care about her lost husband? He’s dead, right?” The daughter looked back, “What we care about is Arad Orion and no one else.”

“Come on. Are you saying that it’s bad that he cared about your mother? We can’t be unfair to Arad’s family.” Hati leaned back, putting her feet on the table, “I’ve called Ereshkigal, she doesn’t know anything about a man called Rotgar, at least not the one we’re looking for.” “So, he’s lost? That can’t be the only possibility, what if he turned into an undead right after death, she wouldn’t know about him in that case. Necromances are plentiful in the world.” The daughter replied with a passive face, “Looking for him is futile, and we can’t waste time with the current condition of the world. You must know that better than me, Mother.”

“I know, that’s why I called someone who isn’t really that good at following precise orders to help. She’s powerful, but can’t really help with Arad’s case as she lacks…. the artistic hand.” Hati looked forth, and a hand touched the door from the outside.

“Wait…” Hati’s daughter gasped as sensed the magic coming from outside the door.

The door burst open, and a cat woman with black hair and golden eyes stood there standing tall with a muscular body riddled with scars. Her eyes looked left and right, stopping at Hati and her ears twitched a bit.

“HATI-Nya!” The woman lunged at Hati, pushing her to the ground. “It’s been a long while- nya!”

Hati giggled as the woman started rubbing her head on her like an excited cat, “Selena…get off me…it tickles.”

Lyla lifted her eyes and looked at the woman, in her drunken dream, she mumbled,

“Matilda?”

“Nya?” The woman turned toward her, “Matilda-nya? The girl is a black tiger-nya. I’m a black Jaguar-nya.” She patted Lyla’s head, “Call me Selena-nya. And you stink of alcohol-

nya.”

“How was the battle of Alrondo?” Hati asked.

“Painful, but I managed to push them away.” She looked at her scares, “Got injured pretty bad though-nya, but I’ll heal full in a few days-nya. Mother-in-law is taking care of them in my

place now-nya.”

“Sorry for calling you right after you came back, but I’ve got a job that only you can finish, without causing a massive scene that is.” Hati looked at her, “Can you track her husband?”

She looked at Lyla.

Selena bent over Lyla and sniffed her, “It’s old-nya. But I can do it-nya, if he’s still in this world-nya.” She jumped over the table and went outside in the blink of an eye, immediately landing on the fence of Hati’s house.

The students who were moving outside saw her there and gasped, no matter how they looked at her, such a muscular woman wasn’t something you see each day.

Selena paused for a second, turning aside and her eyes landed on Matilda. “Nya?” She jumped and landed beside Matilda and started sniffing her. “This smell, a mate? No, you’ve got

blood-nya.”

Matilda jumped away, “Who are you?” She cried.

“Join the pride as long as you can-nya. If you waste time-nya, you’ll be left alone-nya.”

Selena said with a smug smile.

“I asked who you are!” Matilda clenched her fist and swung at Selena’s face; a black spark of lightning burst forth in a thundering clap.

As the dust cleared, Selena had caught Matilda’s fist with her hand and was looking at her with

a smile. “The-nya you want-nya?” In the blink of an eye, the two of them disappeared as Selena snatched Matilda and jumped with her far away. Matilda could only feel the extreme acceleration for a second before the two landed in a forging land.

Selena threw Matilda away, and she stood with a scared face. It was as clear as day if she could move her this far that quickly. ^I’ll lose…^

“AROOOON!” Matilda immediately screamed, knowing that she couldn’t win, her only option was to call for help from the only person she knew to be far stronger than her. “He won’t hear you here-nya.” Selena cracked her knuckles, “I’ve got work-nya, but I can play with you a bit-nya.” She glared at her with glowing yellow as black lightning started rumbling from her back. “Black Jaguars or Black tigers, let’s see who’s the best-nya.” ZON! Matilda disappeared and appeared beside Selena, swinging a kick at her face. Selena easily blocked the kick, “Weak-nya. You won’t be Arad’s mate while being this weak-nya.”

Selena clenched a fist, “If you’re in heat, prove yourself.” She punched Matilda in the guts, sending her flying to the trees. “And bring him a hunt.” The first sentence where Selena isn’t mewing like a cat is the first sentence where she’s dead serious.