The dragon's harem

Chapter 998: Sucking Blood



Arad's long journey in Yog's world had started. Followed by the four cardinals he made his way toward his first stop, a five-hundred-year-old vampire that lived in an old abandoned mansion, terrorizing the local cities and villages.

Legends have it that that vampire commands an army of over a thousand ghouls and zombies, all capable of using magic and durable enough to survive a barrage of cannons. An immortal vampire with an invincible immortal army.

"I've seen him, Arad Orion." An old villager testified. "For a moment I thought he was a wall. He had two large greatswords strapped to his back, four guns on his waist, several daggers and wands strapped to three belts around his chest, and a load of bullets and black powder dangling from his thighs."

When asked what messed up the whole forest the villager started shaking, "The woman with him in silver armor. She lifted her sword, and divine tribulation fell from the heavens."

When Mesharra pointed her sword at the sky, she activated her weather magic to summon a massive lightning storm. Black clouds bloated the sun as blinding heavy rain mixed with fist- sized hail came crashing down, followed by an ear-deafening lighting rampage. Hundreds of lightning bolts fell from the clouds, all raining down upon the forest where the vampire had his mansion.

A woman testified, "The divine woman with him, she touched the armored one's back with both of her hands, whispering a prayer which turned the rain into holy water. Then the other two dashed into the forest."

Arad and Echidna raced into the forest to see who reached the vampire first. But the first thing they met was the vampire's immortal army. Mesharra's lightning storm infused with holy water had only managed to kill half of them. It seems that the older ghouls with more necrotic magic had managed to build enough resistance and constitution to survive.

But, that army was in for a nasty surprise. With a single clap and a flick of her fingers, the dead animals of the forest, the fallen ghouls, and the zombies, all came back to life behind her.

As Echidna and her army clashed with the vampire's immortal army, Arad rushed between the falling lightning bolts and heavy hail rain, dodging spells and spears. When he reached the mansion, he smashed the door open with a flying kick, landing inside the main hall.

The vampire was a tall and thin pale man who stood nearly equal to Arad in height with long flowing silky black hair and glowing red eyes. He slowly walked down the stairs wearing black leather pants, a white baggy shirt that was too big for his upper torso, and a sleepy look on his face.

"The hell you want with me? I'm sure I didn't get in your way." The vampire looked at Arad with glowing red eyes. He ran his long fingers through his hair, and glared at Arad, "I might go on a rampage now."

Arad looked at him with an amused face, "Well, I first wanted to talk to you nicely, but when I asked around for where I could find you, pretty much anyone knew and they were kind enough to tell me a few stories about you."

"Hooo, what kind of stories." He smiled, "My mystical power, my immortality, the countless heroes and armies that fell beneath me, or that compared to you lowly mortals I'm a demi- god?"

"Count Von Lios, more like cunt Von Lios." Arad glared at him with a large grin and blackened face, his eyes burning purple with magic. "You've got no mystical powers, you're just a vampire. Immortality is a lie, and you sure aren't the one to change reality. What armies and heroes did you kill? Those were knights and soldiers sent by the kingdom, strong but nowhere near a full army or a true hero. And that you're more of a failed devil than a demi-god, and even if you were a demi-god..."

Arad giggled, "I've already killed a lot, demi-gods and vampires alike...you're nothing more than a mosquito flying over filth. I feel a bit disappointed that I need to suck your blood."

"Did you come here to mock me?" The vampire growled with an amused grin on his face. "Do you think you can kill me? You'll drink my blood? A mere human? You're nothing more than a mortal bug to be sucked dry. Know your place."

Arad drew one of the two greatswords on his back and pulled a long rifle from his magical pocket. Arad closed his eyes, pointing the rifle at the vampire, and held the greatsword over his shoulder. He exhaled, "Blood for the blood lord, endless souls impaled on steel rods."

The vampire's face paled and sweat rushed down his head, he instantly jumped at Arad, roaring with his claws extended forward, "You bastard die!" He didn't know why, but hearing those words had sparked a nerve. He could feel his blood boiling, just as if he was standing before Akasha, the eldritch vampire ruling over all vampires in this world.

Arad deflected the vampire's attack with a downward swing of his greatsword and shot him in the chest, barely missing the heart as the vampire dodged away.

As Count Von landed, his wound refused to heal and he coughed a mouthful of blood. "Silver bullets made from a melted statue of Yog and hardened in the fresh blood of a hundred volunteer nuns, all virgins. No fiend would regenerate from its wound."

"How about this?" Von's eyes flashed red, but Arad didn't even flinch. Von gasped, looking at him in shock. He tried to control his mind and failed so he tried to explode his eyes or lungs, but no matter what he did, Arad's blood couldn't be controlled.

The door of the mansion slowly opened up and Mary was standing there, holding a strange holy symbol akin to a dragon's claw, her eyes closed and her hands tucked at her chest as she prayed. The moment she set foot inside the house, a shockwave burst through Von's blood magic, erasing it.

"He drank nothing but holy water for the past days, I prayed to him day in and day out, and his entire body is dripping with holy magic. Your blood magic isn't enough to stain him." Just her mere presence had made Von understand that he was in a really bad situation.

Von turned into mist and retreated deeper into the mansion. Inside the basement, he kept several cells filled with human cattle for blood. Arad was a human, and he had a holy priestess with him. He could use those people he has as a distraction to run away.

He waved his hand and rushed into the cells, finding the first woman close to him. "You'll..." Von froze a strange sight before his eyes. A glowing fairy floats before the naked woman, mystical sparkles of lighting falling from the ceiling with a deep sense of calmness.

"He did more than such your blood..." Plum said with a sad face, "Don't worry, I'll shove something even bigger up his ass."

The whole basement exploded with massive tree roots growing everywhere. The people that Von kept in his basement were carried safely to the main entrance beside Aarad as Von himself flew to the back, his left arm crushed to bits with plum chasing him with an enraged face.

He swung his claws at her but she dodged them with ease, flying right through his stomach and coming out of his back drenched in blood. The massive sharp roots that followed after smacked Von all over the house until he landed beside the fireplace, healing all of his wounds except the bullet wound that Arad made.

With a single flick of his fingers, all the roots rotted away and he giggled, "I got your roots!"

"So shove them up your ass!" Plum shouted as a one-foot-thick tree trunk grew beneath him, impaling him from the ass to the throat and lifting him into the sky, destroying the mansion's

roof.

Even while impaled and showered with holy water, Von instantly regenerated, shattering the tree trunk that impaled him in an instant.

Simultaneously, a large zombie threw Echidna into the sky toward Von, an explosion erupted inside the mansion from which Arad flew straight up toward Von, and Mesharra dropped from the clouds, swinging her sword down with a thunder roar and blinding arc of lightning.

In a quick exchange, the three swung at Von, cutting his escape route, and Arad managed to put a bullet through his heart, knocking him out.

He was powerful, but not something that Arad, Mesharra, and Echidna couldn't defeat when working together. Mary heard something crash on the ceiling and when she rushed upstairs with Plum, she found Arad and the other two dragging the chained body of Von. "What happened to the victims?" Arad asked and Mary smiled, "I healed them and Plum is guarding them downstairs. They should be fine." The four of them walked downstairs and Plum awaited, waving her hand with a large smile on her face. The victims were lined on the

floor, asleep.

Arad approached her, "We're done here. We should head back." He was dragging Von behind him. He was a pretty famous vampire and should be a good one for Arad to get vampirism

from, can't find anything better anywhere close.

But the moment they were about to walk away, Arad felt something strange, the air getting colder and dryer, and he could smell his blood. His heart was awfully loud and his mind felt a bit foggy. This didn't seem to be only happening to him, the four with him also felt that way,

it felt strange.

He looked back, seeing the figure of a woman cloaked in black standing in the shadows. Everyone noticed his startled face and turned around, seeing her walk into the light, only her burning red cat-like eyes visible.

She removed her hood and her long blood-red hair rolled down, her flour-like pale skin reflected the sunlight to the point she almost illuminated the darkness behind her. Her eyes

stared at Von, and then at Arad and his friends.

"Kneel." One word escaped her mouth, and the four women smacked their faces to the ground, bleeding from their eyes and ears. She looked surprised, Arad remained standing as if

not bothered at all.

"Why aren't you kneeling?" she asked, slowly approaching Arad.

"Won't you be disappointed if I did? Not my first time facing someone like you." Arad smiled,

his skin was slowly turning red from the heat boiling inside his chest. As a human, his body won't be able to endure this extreme fever for a long time.

"So you expected me?" She smiled, "Akasha, you call me the ancestor of all vampires." The

line that Arad said to Von earlier, it was for this moment, he tested his luck and gambled to see if whatever this world's blood lord would appear or not. She seems to be here, and her name is Akasha, a woman similar to Ginger in look but far paler, and leagues stronger. "So the blood lord of this world is called the ancestor of all vampires?" He started walking toward her as she approached him as well. "Not just called, I'm the ancestor of all vampires in this world. I came here with Yog when she built this world."

"That short piece of shit never mentioned she brought a vampire here as well." Arad smiled

and Akasha returned the smile, "Mind your words, she's my stepmother. My mother is Akame, the red queen of undead and my father is the overgod." From her long and red fingers, golden divine magic started dripping out.

"A holy vampire? Why do I feel like I know someone like you?" He tilted his head, she was similar to Eris. No, Eris is similar to her.

"Since you managed to draw my attention, it naturally means I'll draw your blood. Arad

Orion, the man that my stepmother brought to our house." She liked her red lips, "I want a

sip."

"Go ahead, I don't mind." Arad replied with a nonchalant face. She looked at him, surprised, "Really?" She giggled, "Stepmother said that I'd end up stepping on if I tried doing this, but I guess even she doesn't know you well." She ran her fingers on his neck. "You don't mind becoming my pet little vampire, do you?"

"If you want to drink my blood, then do it." Arad nodded and she reached forward, licking his

neck before taking a bite. But at that moment, she felt something sharp on her neck...it took her a second to realize it, but Arad had bitten her back at the same time.

The moment she bit him, she turned him into her slave vampire spawn, but since his body had

already started moving the moment she bit him, the signal was still carried to his muscles and he managed to bite her. The only way for a vampire spawn to free himself of their lord's dominion is to bite and such their blood, no one was strong enough to steal his freedom back from Akasha, but Arad had outsmarted her before she could even know it.

She pushed him back and jumped away, staring at him with a terrified face. Immediately she could feel her power growing weaker and weaker, he had sucked her blood after becoming a vampire directly from her blood, he was now challenging her stance as the queen of vampires. "Your stepmother is a short little piece of shit, but you should've listened to her." He lunged at her, swinging his sword. The four women still couldn't move, their blood was already almost disintegrating, and mere mortals weren't strong enough to stand before a vampire like Akasha, but Arad was built differently. Now that he outsmarted her and attained vampire powers, his abilities are growing back to a ridiculous rate, while Akasha is weakening. The fight between Akasha and Arad took only a few minutes. Arad swung his sword at her neck, she dodged and thrust her arm through his chest. He managed to pull back and regenerate, but at that time she had already come in for another attack, swinging her foot at his hunched head. He had already faced Vlad before, it didn't take him long to find similarities

between her and him, and what he feared the most was for her to have a vampire army.

Arad was lucky, Akasha as a vampire focused on her power and not an army like Vlad did,

which meant that as long as the fight lasted long enough, Arad should absorb enough of her power to win.

Akasha's clock was already ticking down, Arad had bitten her, she must bite him back to retrieve her title or her whole status would've ended up transferred to him. She was basically becoming his spawn now that she had been bitten.

In the end, one kick of Arad managed to drop Akasha down, his foot stomping her face to the

ground and making sure her teeth weren't able to bite his flesh. DRIP! Arad could feel it, she

had fully become his spawn, and he had gotten her power. Yog was already standing before them, looking at Akasha with an amused face.

"I want to say. 'I told you!' But you lied earlier, I didn't tell you you'll end up stepping on." Yog giggled and Akasha growled at her. "Don't you dare..."

"Do you know what I told her?" Yog looked at Arad and he shook his head, "I don't want to know, I'm sure it'll be something vile, considering you're the one we're talking with." "I've told her that if she wants to drink your blood, she better suck your dick off, and get

blood from there." She looked at Akasha, "If you did that, he wouldn't have been able to reach your neck."

"I said don't tell me." Arad growled.

"I hate you..." Akasha mumbled.

"My little girl Akasha, what did your mother tell you before about me?" She bent down and

looked at her.

"You suck at jokes." Akasha sat up as Arad removed his foot from over her face. "That's right my dear, I can't joke. And you do you know why?" She started tapping her cheek.

"The forbidden knowledge." Akasha mumbled.

"That's right, remember when I first came here with you? Remember what I said then."

Seeing Yog's smile, Akasha remembered the old days.

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"Why did you bring me here?" Young Akasha, who didn't look any different than her current

self asked Yog as they first walked into the new world.

Yog looked at her, "What answer do you want? The truth, the lie, or something in between?

The truth is quite forbidden."

"The truth, forbidden knowledge or not, since you game the option it means I can know it."

Akasha glared at her.

"I'm giving you to someone as their vampire spawn. Don't worry, he'll treat you nicely. But

it'll take them a while to arrive..."

Five thousand years later, Akasha finally remembered those words, seeing Arad before her.

She looked at Yog, wanting to ask how long was she planning for all of this, but the words didn't come out of her mouth.

Yog looked at her with a smile, clearly asking her to remain silent. "Go into his blood. That's

where you belong."

Akasha sighed, "Any advice?"

"Just be obedient and you'll be fine. Don't worry, I made sure it'll be to your liking. Believe

me when I say that I know you better than you know yourself. I know everyone better than they know themselves." Yog faded and Akasha disappeared into a splash of blood, flying right into Arad's body.

Arad couldn't believe his plan worked, but he'll take the win. His current vampire powers almost rival those of Vlad, but it's still far from being enough to even scratch Gamond. "To the werewolf."