Chapter 895: Getting A Bit Leaner
Chapter 895: Getting A Bit Leaner
Zia’s screams filled the whole bath as Isdis tied her with ice chains inside an ice-cold bath. Albeit Zia was stronger than Isdis, she and all of Arad’s vampires are sworn for protection, and if there is one thing they can’t do, that is use their power against Arad or any of his relatives.
Albeit Zia’s countless calls for help, the other nuns had a higher calling on their hands than helping their leader. Their lord, the one who sleeps, the nuclear chaos had needed their help. Their hands moved, and their bodies responded. For the next hour, only on their job, they focused.
“This should feel better to him now.” Astrid smiled as she looked down at a clean and sparkling Arad. After polishing his scales, someone would be surprised at how reflective they were. Pure darkness, but a slightly reflective one, obsidian scales were glistening like fresh paint on a new car.
“It’s indeed…” Frida looked at Arad’s back, unable to move her eyes away. He looked as if his body was sculpted from a massive gem, dripping with magic, powerful, yet gentle.
“This is our lord…we’ve worked for a lot…” One of the nuns gasped as they all started staring at him, entranced. Tina looked around and realized that something was off, “Isdis! This isn’t right!” She cried.
“What? Is there something going wrong?” She looked back and immediately noticed it. Why is everyone staring at Arad looking so relaxed? Their eyes fixed forward as their expression slowly faded.
“Trying to eat my husband with your eyes?” She growled, lifting her arms up, “I’ll cool you down before you go into heat! You animals!” [Ice Storm] As she swung her palms down, sparks of frozen snow emerged from her elbow and blew over everyone, jolting them with a wave of cold wind. They all cried at the same time, jumping back with surprised faces.
“What did happen?!” Astrid cried. She looked at her hands with a confused face, but couldn’t remember the past few seconds, but instead felt a strange feeling rushing up her stomach and into her chest. A faint thirst swelled up in her throat and a tingle tickled her groin. It felt strange, weird, and quite alarming. Sadly, her feeling wasn’t uncommon, everyone else here besides Isdis, Mira, and Tina was feeling it, a strange feeling that came from looking at Arad. “I’m back!” Bath’s door opened as Merlin walked in, her chest bouncing left and right as she looked for Arad, “Arad! Where are you? I’ve heard you’re quite exhausted…” When her eyes stopped at Arad, she gasped. “Wait… The hell is this!” She immediately pulled her staff from between her breasts. That’s where she had the magic circle for storage drawn, as it’s close to the heart.
[Polymorph] As she cast her spell, threads of magic rushed from the tip of her staff and covered Arad’s body, turning his shiny and glossy scales even darker, giving them a mat finish. “Why didn’t I notice that?” She growled, but quickly mumbled to herself, “I don’t see him like this very often, do I?”
“Merlin! What’s happening?” Isdis rushed at her, and Mira’s voice could be heard calling from inside Arad’s mouth, asking to be let out. Zia casually broke the ice chains holding her and went to free Mira. She wasn’t really bound by Isdis’s magic, she chose to remain chained in the frigid water as that was what her Mistress wanted.
Merlin looked at Arad as she shoved her staff back between her breasts, “Remember how Yuwaku was born from Arad’s majestic body and Zephyr’s magic? She’s a nymph. They are born from sources of great beauty and magic.”
Now that Arad was growing stronger on his own, boasting even more magic and raw energy, seeing him curled like a cat in his draconic form, such a massive and majestic monster, an obsidian dragon as black as the night sky, sparkling with pure magic like the stars.
It was the same as an extremely beautiful woman on the streets, stealing everyone’s eyes as she passed by. Arad sleeping there emitted a powerful awe aura, putting everyone in a trance as they gazed upon his majestic beings. It didn’t help that those who looked at him were either nuns that worshipped him as their god, or two Fenrirs that knew who he really was. Mira rushed toward Isdis and Merlin as Zia freed her. “What did happen?!”
“You were inside his mouth?” Merlin stared at her with a lifted eyebrow, and Mira explained that she couldn’t fully control her divine magic, so she was just releasing it in the hope of providing Arad with some healing.
“We need to hurry, otherwise we might have another nymph pop out of nowhere.” Merlin scratched the back of her head, “The majestic obsidian dragon and the thousand mystic maidens sitting upon his back. That’s an image that would certainly give birth to a nymph if allowed enough time or magic.” She looked at Arad, “We’re quite lucky he’s weakened now.” “Arad! Can you hear me?” Merlin shouted, looking at him and he slowly opened his eyes, staring at her with a feint burning flame flickering in them. “Get back into your humanoid shape, that should help suppress the image. And how do you feel now?”
“Nothing…changed…” Arad growled as he shifted back into his humanoid form, falling to the ground. Zia rushed in to catch him, but he teleported to the hot bath with [Void step] and let her fall on her face instead of catching him.
“That was close.” Astrid approached Merlin, “We didn’t expect such a thing to happen. We’ll be more careful and watch the magic around him.” She turned toward Arad, “Of course, you won’t be better yet. We still haven’t started the healing process; all we did was clean you up so your body can absorb what is to come after this.”
She pointed back toward two pools of water.
This massive bath was made since Hati and her daughters needed to wash their massive beast forms. She was a massive wolf, a nine-tailed silver wolf of majestic proportions, reaching the clouds with her head. One step, and she could crush down several cities. Throughout history, she known by many names. The silver wolf of the end, the divine beast, the nine-tailed beast, queen of the monsters, the holy nine-cloud thunder god, and the jingling bell of the silver moon. Whenever any of those names is mentioned, it’s Hati.
Through the past five thousand years she had discovered several ways to recover, and one of them was the opposite treatment. Heating the target in burning divine magic, and then cooling them in ice-cold holy water. That exchange allowed the body to absorb the healing faster, which resulted in quicker recovery.
“You’ll go into the sauna, then into the first pool, then back into the sauna but at a higher temperature, and then into the second pool with an even colder temperature.” Astrid smiled, “And we repeat until a certain threshold of absorption is achieved.”
While Isdis and Mira wanted to go with Arad, sadly they couldn’t, no one could. The heat he was thrust into wasn’t something that even steel could withstand, only he could survive it. Eris might’ve endured it, but the shock of getting into frozen water right after would kill her.
When Arad walked out of the sauna his body emitted enough heat that he felt like a red-hot metal, the water beneath his feet evaporated and the frozen water nearly exploded as he
touched it.
White Arad went back and forth between the sauna and the pools, the girls and the nuns took this time as a chance to wash themselves, they’d been working on Arad for quite a while and they needed to take their share of the bath.
As Merlin scrubbed her arms, she looked at Astrid, “This is one massive bath. Is it kept in a dimensional pocket? I sensed some weird magic while coming in.”
“It’s a part of the great infinite maze. Millions of cubic white rooms one hundred meters wide each all linked together and stacked into a single massive cube. All the rooms constantly switch places tens of time each second using teleportation magic, which make escaping it impossible without a key.” Frida was the one to reply and she said that with a proud face. “Infinite maze? Are you talking about that one…” Merlin had only heard about it in old scriptures, a sacred land, a pathway that links multiple parts of the universe that was built by the overgod from a dungeon to be used as a hub for operation. She only knows about it since her teacher Lilia from the mage tower, and as well Betty, both pestered her about how her Labyrinth magic has the same potential.
“Yeah, mother has…” As Astrid was about to speak, the water in one of the pools where Arad was cooling down exploded as he walked out, smoking with holy magic. The muscle damage
had healed.
After several switches, Arad’s skin looked to have started taking on a darker tone akin to oak
as his scales slowly soaked with the healing magic. Albeit feeling much better, he looked a bit leaner than before as the muscles managed to relax even further due to the severe injuries and recovered into a better state.