The dragon's harem

Chapter 967: The Perversion Of Knowledge



[Fire doesn't work on him] Yog's voice plagued Arad's head, but he ignored her. He knows what he's doing, and he wouldn't be wasting mana on a useless spell.

With a quick step, he rushed at the bear and swung the fire sword. The bear easily dodged it but Arad moved even closer, extending his range and slashing at the bear's eyes. There was a catch with all magical resistances and immunities, Arad wanted to abuse that fact.

Resistances and immunities don't extend to anything that already left the body like spit, urine, or tears. The moment the fire flashed past the bear's eyes, it dried them instantly, blinding the bear.

Using the same momentum, Arad's ice sword flew right after his fire one. The bear's monster regeneration kicked in as his eyes were about to hear and tears were about to flow again...the ice sword froze them solid, preventing regeneration as well as slashing them open. Hannah gasped, "Those moves?!" She couldn't believe how Arad was moving despite his size. The graceful moves of Isdis's royal swordsmanship mixed with Alcott's rough and extreme sword techniques, it was a sight to behold. And what was more terrifying, is that Arad was keeping two spells active at the same time.

Arad jumped up, kicking the bear's lower jaw swiftly as he spun mid-air, letting go of the two swords. Arad then swung his palms at the bear's ears, slapping them with Dalla's art, bursting the monster's eardrums and shaking the brain.

[Not so fast, go my bear!] Yog growled and Arad was ready to strike the bear down. The bear rejuvenated with magic, swinging his claws at the new unarmed Arad.

"BEAR A BEAR!" Gogonbronso cried in the back, aiming her staff at the bear with a stance. Green magic rushed out and struck the beast, pralazying it in place. "Bend the knee and bow to my mighty magic!" She growled.

Seeing an opening, Arad caught his falling ice sword and slit the bear's throat open. As the blood splashed out, Arad's upper body kept spinning with the slash as he winded up a slap, smacking the bear square in the chest.

The slap was targeted to be right above the heart, sending a shockwave through the body. The small blood vessels would burst and the blood would be forced through any possible opening. In a fraction of a second, half of the bear's blood was ejected out of the slashed throat, dropping it dead.

[Damn it, you can have this win. Here you go.] Yog sighed in a disappointed voice.

[Level: 1]==>[Level: 2]

[Max MP: 250]==>[Max MP: 300]

[Max HP: 250]==>[Max MP: 300]

Arad caught his fire sword as he sighed, the bear was finally dead. The two weapons faded away as he looked back at Gogonbronso. "That was an amazing spell. It stopped the bear from moving!"

"That's my great magic, Paralyze." She said with a proud smile, puffing her chest.

Hannah looked at Arad, "What were those moves? Are you some kind of martial master?"

"No, I'm still learning." Arad cracked his neck the wound on his throat started bleeding a bit. He immediately stopped the bleeding with a [Healing], but that was enough to give Chloe a scare in the back.

"Don't move too much! And why did you get close to the bear!?!" she jumped off the carriage and rushed toward Arad to check on him, only to find herself unable to look at the wound in his neck for how short she was.

"Chloe is right! Take a seat inside the carriage, I'll drag the bear with Hannah's help." Jimmy rushed to check on Hannah before they could start working on the bear. Arad approached the carriage and sat in the back, thinking about what he should do.

Yog is on the other side of the world, to reach her he must travel a long distance. There is no mistake, she wants him to learn teleportation magic. But casting complicated magic with a human's body and capabilities is extremely hard, he won't be able to teleport over long distances and might not even manage to teleport anywhere unless he had been there before.

The first hurdle he is facing now is casting volume. With his draconic powers, every one of his scales can be an exit spot for magic. That meant he had hundreds of millions of magic-casting exits. Even if his use was inefficient, he made up for it with volume.

Humans don't have any magic-casting exits and must utilize tools like staffs or wands, the rare talents could be able to cast magic directly, but they'd have a lesser output than a single draconic scale, that's why humans make stave cores from dragon's scales and bones.

Arad's current body was that of a talented man and could cast magic without a tool, but he still couldn't match a tenth of what one of his scales could achieve.

Witches like Doma, Eris, and Merlin paint their nails with magic nail polish to turn them into extra magic casting tools which dramatically increase their magic output.

"Where is the closet city?" Arad asked, looking at Chloe who was sitting beside him.

"City? Our village is close, but I won't call it a large village, let alone a city or a town." She replied, looking at Hannah and Jimmy struggling to drag the bear's heavy body. "What's your name?"

"Arad." Arad replied with a passive face as he was still thinking about how to optimize his magic.

"Why were you wounded like that on the road? Was it bandits, or a large monster?" She looked at him with a worried face, "If it's something strong enough to harm you, we must form a large party to kill it."

Arad looked at her, "Would you believe me if I said it was Yog? She tasked me with reaching her tower on the other side of this world."

She looked at him with a skeptical face, "I don't... Would you mind if I used a holy spell to detect if you're lying? I've never heard of the goddess harming someone than asking them to

find her."

"Go ahead." Arad nodded and she glared at him with glowing golden eyes. "You say the goddess wounded you, and asked you to reach her tower on the other side of the world, is this correct?" She asked, her voice booming.

"Yes." Arad replied and she started sweating. "You aren't lying... To think you're a pilgrim."

"See? I wasn't lying." Arad sighed, "Your goddess is a handful."

She glared at him with burning eyes. "Your goddess? It's our goddess." She looked a bit angry.

"Sorry, little girl. But that thing isn't my goddess." Arad replied with a passive face. In a world where Yog is the sole goddess, Arad rejects her dominion in front of one of her clerics. This was blasphemy that would be punishable by burning, yet she gulped down.

Yog's divine aura around Arad didn't fade, the goddess was completely fine with him rejecting her as his goddess. This was something unprecedented, "You're a heretic, yet the goddess still calls you to her tower. It's not my place to oppose if the goddess is fine, but know this, had I known you're a heretic, I would've never helped you."

"Can't blame you." Arad looked out, but suddenly the sky turned white as a massive image loomed over the heavens, Yog was staring down at her people. When looking up, they could only see her feet, the underside of her robe was all blurred out.

[My people, I hope you're having a beautiful day.] Everyone dropped everything they were doing and prostrated themselves on the ground, listening to the goddess. She only appears like this when making a massive announcement to her beloved people.

Arad looked up as Chloe and everyone else were already on the ground, shaking. [Today is a blessed day, I got an exciting announcement.] She giggled, [There is a man that I blessed called Arad Orion walking on this land. I'll not explain anything to you, but he's on a pilgrimage to my tower and I hereby give him the right of freedom.]

The moment those words came out of her mouth, Arad could hear the four adventurers before him gasp.

[He's free to do anything he wants. You're nothing more than tools to him, and you aren't allowed to resist if ordered by him under divine freedom. Those who get harmed by him are granted access to my heaven after their death as compensation.]

She giggled, [Arad Orion, I'm sure you're hearing and seeing me. The more people suffer at your hands, the more mana I'll grant you. Make sure to make full use of them as test rats for your magic, start with that cleric before you.]

Yog's apparition in the heavens faded away as quickly as she appeared. Chloe slowly stood up with a pale face, sweating buckets as Arad was sitting right behind her. Jimmy, Hannah, and Gogonbronso slowly turned back, looking at Arad.

Arad sighed, "This is why I hate her..." He growled...^This isn't just a test of magic, but a test of morals as well. Arad remembered his first days as Ember told him about how mages experiment on monsters to test their magic and spells, Yog now is asking him to do the same, but to the humanoids in her world.^

[Come on, Arad...For each tear, I'll increase your MP by 2 and for each scream, I'll increase it by 10. Make her wail like a pig...] Arad could hear Yog's voice, seeing a massive shadow of black tentacles, green and red eyes, gaping maws and teeth surrounding him, giggling, [Do it,

I'm waiting]

That massive horrifying shape was Yog's true form, a monster of unimaginable proportions, intellect, knowledge, and sadistic perversion. A massive black gate stood before Arad, beckoning him to open it, behind it lays the forbidden knowledge of magic, the knowledge obtained from experimenting on humanoids.