The dragon's harem

Chapter 814 King Of The Void

^This feeling, something is burning my cells the moment they regenerate. The cursed metal had this effect, that's an attack from the pillar he had earlier?^ Vorvadoss roared and his body fully healed as he focused more on it. Regenerating isn't easy for him, but it's still something he can power through.

Arad lunged forward and started running toward him and Vorvadoss flew away as fast as he could. Currently, due to his magic, neither he nor Arad can teleport, but this shall be to his advantage, Arad can't be faster than him.

He looked back, only to see Arad bolting toward him running like a hungry tiger. "Wait! He's getting faster?" Vorvadoss gasped, but it didn't take him long to notice what Arad was doing, and it made him want to give up and run away. He did want to kill Arad, but after seeing what he saw, the task started to seem like a losing call.

Like how all animals run, they use their paws, hooves, and claws to push back on the ground to run forward. Some even use their claws to gain more traction, like cheetahs which are the fastest land animal, that isn't a monster.

Arad's claws weren't just pushing on the ground to propel him forward. They were doing something that only Vorvadoss's eyes could catch; they were pulling space itself from in front of Arad and pushing it behind him. Speed is the distance traveled, through time. Arad was actively making the distance he traveled shorter by pulling space and pushing it behind him, like pulling a rug.

To Vorvadoss, this was bullshit. That fact was absurd to the point he didn't expect to see it from a monster that resides in the moral world. If you can push space itself behind you, you can go even faster than what's normally possible. It's a way to bypass the speed of light limit, albeit neither Arad nor Vorvadoss were even close to the speed of light for it to be a consideration.

VROOOOOOOOOOM! Arad's heart grew louder and his wings started flapping violently, but he didn't take off and kept running. For a second, Vorvadoss thought Arad tried to fly and failed, but he quickly noticed something even more horrifying than before. Arad was intentionally flapping his wings like paddles to push space behind him.

This had made a big change, Vorvadoss was now certain that Arad was aware of what he was doing. He just prevented this dragon from teleporting so he decided to pull space around to run faster.

Arad had one massive problem, a problem that all living beings have. He can't grow, unless under stress. If muscles aren't stressed, they won't grow larger and stronger. If there isn't a need and an incentive, humans don't innovate. And if Arad isn't pushed to the limit, he won't grow stronger, and won't be finding new ways to use his power.

^He's growing stronger.^ Vorvadoss happened to be just perfect, a bastard that won't die even if Arad hit him at full force, a good punching bag.

Vorvadoss decided it was impossible to run away from Arad like this, he needed to damage him enough to buy enough time to run. If Arad teleported after him all the way to here, teleportation magic probably isn't the way to run away from him.

He jumped back with a clenched fist and the soul split sword in the other. ^What a pain to deal with,^ He dodged Arad's claw and swung the sword up, butting him across the neck.

^All I needed was to be more aggressive. I can't let him push me into the defensive.^ Vorvadoss smiled, ^Look, I managed to turn the table this easily, this should...^ With Arad seemingly taking another hit from the sword, this looked like the prime time for Vorvadoss to escape. At this moment he doesn't believe Arad can be killed by the sword, but is sure it'll at least slow him down. But it was strange; he didn't feel any resistance when he cut him.

Arad lowered his jaw, bit Vorvadoss's upper half, and blasted him away with an energy breath. By using his void and blood magic, Arad had slashed his own throat so the sword would miss him. The sword is useless if it can't hit, and Arad wasn't going to pull any punches.

How do you kill a creature that doesn't have a soul and can regenerate from being disintegrated, this was the problem Arad was thinking about. The first answer to come into mind was something his brother told him, Gojo had beaten Demogorgan so bad that he gave up on life; Arad could try to do the same for Vorvadoss. But this is a creature who survived being sealed for thousands of years, so it probably won't work.

^But it's worth a try!^ Arad charged at Vorvadoss as fast as he could, ready to throw another breath. But suddenly something new appeared and he stopped.

Arad stared at the strange thing in front of him, a humanoid figure hooded in a yellow cloak; he couldn't even clearly make out his face.

Vorvadoss froze in place, sweating in terror, ^It can't be! It's him!^

The figure turned toward Arad and looked up, even with that, Arad couldn't make out his face. Ineffable, he couldn't even process what this being was.

"Sorry, but I have to cut this fight here. I can't afford to lose another of my children." The figure said. "Even so I wished to speak with you; I have to leave at once." He could speak in the utter void, and Arad tilted his head.

^Get out of my way. Or I'll kill you with him.^

The figure giggled, "A threat from you isn't something that I should take lightly. For now, I need to be..."

Kayden appeared behind the figure, shifted into a six-armed monster with three heads and glowing red eyes, swinging six swords with enough magic that it made Arad want to run. "DEAD!" Kayden growled as he swung at the figure.

The hooded figure dodged Kayden's slashes and turned toward him.

^Lord Nyar!^ Vorvadoss screamed as he lunged in, swinging his sword at Kayden's head.

CRACK! Kayden shattered the soul-split blade with a bite from one of his heads. "Scram, Mutt!"

Kayden swung his swords at Vorvadoss and slashed his arms and legs before Nyar jumped in to deflect the other attacks. Vorvadoss then fell down, growling and unable to regenerate.

"Whoha… this is bad, he's seeing my little Vorvadoss as a dog. We're absolutely fucked if we stayed." Nyar waved his arms and they both disappeared.

Kayden stared at his swords, "Slashing his skin is still a problem…He's that dense…" He slowly turned toward Arad, "Let's leave…I'll…" He paused, Arad had disappeared as well.

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Nyar and Vorvadoss landed in a large hall of stone akin to a castle throne room but far larger. "I don't have much time as I'm still regenerating from that drakaina's kick. I'm getting back to sleep; you rule this colony and recover for the coming war." Nyar immediately disappeared and Vorvadoss stood, saluting the air. "Our lord and king, I shall follow your will to the end."

He turned to look back and saw what seemed like the horrid child of an octopus, a human woman, and a fox looking at him. "Our new king; Space Lord Vorvadoss. We're been waiting for decades." She approached him.

Vorvadoss smiled, "Get me a feast of souls. I need to regain my power first. We can then see what we could do." He walked with her.

"In the thousand years of your absence, we have managed to kidnap some humanoids and monsters that we set in our breeding farms. We can get a fresh supply of souls, do you prefer anything?" She said with a passive face.

"I do not have a preference. As long as the souls are strong enough." He nodded, walking with her into the back rooms where she pointed at a door. "This is the recovery room, we're developed it in the past century, it should serve you well."

He grabbed the doorknob and a large booming sound echoed through the castle. "Why does it do this? Is it necessary?" Vorvadoss looked back at her, and she looked different, a bit scared.

"Is there a problem?"

"This isn't the recovery room, it's the alarm…" She turned around and rushed toward the window with him. As they looked outside, Vorvadoss could feel it, a powerful signal approaching from the infinite void above followed by a white glow in the darkness.

"The fucker followed us!" He cried seeing Arad swooping down at the colony, ready to blast it to pieces.

The abomination living in the colony looked up and saw Arad's massive body appearing. None of them even knew what was happening, and some had started asking the guards if this was the new king they were awaiting. He did have a lot of magic which made it seem that way.

"You bastard!" Vorvadoss shouted out of the window, "This is our colony! STOP!"

[Void Expansion: Nuclear Chaos] Arad blasted the whole place to ash, and Vorvadoss barely managed to escape to another colony with a portal alongside that abomination woman.

"Lord Vorvadoss…" She mumbled, looking at him with a scared face.

"That fucking dragon! How did he follow us all the way here?" He punched the wall and shattered it. The king of the current colony recognized him and rushed in, "You're lord Vorvadoss, aren't you? What did happen?"

"Lord Nyar went back to sleep, he probably won't wake up for another decade. We need a way to deal with that fucker at once…" He glared at the king. "Get your…."

The alarm went out, and both Vorvadoss and the abomination woman froze in place. She slowly looked to the windows and could see Arad standing right beside their fortress, growling.

"Shi…"

[Void Expansion: Nuclear Chaos] Arad blasted the whole place, but Vorvadoss had managed to escape again thanks to the abomination woman sacrificing herself.

When Vorvadoss landed in the third colony, he immediately started looking for a teleporting device. He knew Arad would follow him, and that must shake that monster off. He ignored the colony king and made a run for it.

As Vorvadoss expected, Arad was after him and blasted the colony again.

For the next week, Arad kept chasing Vorvadoss across the empty void, nuking every colony he passed by. Each time, the slight delay that he needed to process Vorvadoss's teleport magic had made it possible for the abomination to escape each time.

But after all of that, Arad finally gave up on chasing him for one reason, if he kept going deeper into the void, he might not be able to remember and retrace his teleports back home as they are complicated spells and hard to memorize on the fly.

Arad landed back on the world's crust when he first fought Vorvadoss and tried to shift back into a human form before teleporting into the university. But, something was off, he couldn't take a human form.