The dragon's harem - Chapter 1885: To Murder a Star

Chapter 1885: To Murder a Star

As Mira rubbed her face on Matilda’s soft, black fur, Arad was on the bed, busy with Selina. Unlike the other two, she liked a gentler approach, a slow and steady approach to love. She didn’t need him to be as passionate as he was with Mira, nor as rough as Matilda demanded.

A gentle touch, a loving caress, and soft work. She was easily spooked, rattled, and put off by any sign of eccentric behavior. Selina knew that she was a scaredy cat, too timid and too soft to put herself up there with the other people.

Just speaking with people regularly was a problem, so being naked and doing such things with Arad here in front of over twenty other people wasn’t easy at all for her. Even if Merlin’s medicine helped her now, nothing would prevent her from dying of shame or getting a heart attack just remembering tonight’s events later on.

So, there wasn’t that much movement at all with her. It was slowly pushed on, and the two rested like that for a while, barely doing anything at all. Arad let Selina soak in the moment, relax, and only moved when she was ready to.

For the first time, the maids standing by the walls could relax a bit, and some even went to pet Matilda. The night itself here was quiet, both Arad and Selina silently embraced each other among the flickering candlelight and shadows.

But while Arad, this Arad, was quiet, it didn’t mean he was relaxed. One of his incarnations was about to challenge the very will of the universe, to assert his dominance and existence by flexing upon the very gods.

“Hmm… A sun.” Arad asked as he floated in the middle of nothing, staring at a blinding sun with Eris at his side. “It is majestic.”

“Well, aren’t you a lucky one.” Eris smiled as she pointed at the sun. “That is now a part of my body. So, you are basically saying that I’m majestic.” She floated into his arms, wrapped herself around his chest, and then rested in his grasp. “I managed to make it by melting a lot of the matter you had stored inside your stomach, and I used a few hundred [Ho-white Nova]s and Amaterasu’s divine magic.”

Arad looked at her with a passive face, and glanced at the radiating sun without even blinking.

“That is a lot of matter and energy. You just absorbed about three-quarters of all the matter I had stored.” He looked at her. “But all of that won’t even fill a tenth of this sun.”

Eris shrugged. “I did use my Plasma divine magic to fill it. But Amaterasu did provide two-thirds of this thing.” She sighed, “I didn’t even ask, but the moment I tried to create this sun and was about to fail, she filled the rest.”

“Arad! Eris!” Amaterasu’s voice boomed in their heads, and the two flinched. “You… Amaterasu!” Eris gasped, and Arad sighed.

“You’re watching?” He looked at the sun, “Or, is this sun a part of you as well, since you provided most matter?”

Amaterasu giggled and then replied. “Of course not. That sun is a part of Eris, not me. I’m quite happy to not own a 100% of all the suns in the universe. Besides, I want to see how she’ll manage this. Making a Gravastar isn’t easy.”

Arad already knew that. They were supposed to crush this sun, this radiant star, into an object so extreme that it didn’t make sense. Arad could fathom the concept of a sun collapsing under its own weight into a black hole, or even the birth of a radiant blue neutron star, since those were perfectly simple.

If gravity won, a black hole is born, and if matter won, a neutron star is born. But what made gravastars so extreme and difficult to understand was because they are born from those two harrowing forces perfectly balancing each other out.

“If gravity wins, we’ll have a black hole. If matter persists, then we have a neutron star. If both fail, we’ll get burned in a supernova that might wound my stomach, and only if Eris manages to perfectly balance everything would we end up with a gravastar.” Arad stared at the empty void of his stomach.

“Amaterasu, you’re asking my wife to play with fire and for me to detonate a bomb inside my stomach. Are you a fool?” As he growled with a passive face, Amaterasu burst laughing.

“You can’t blame me, can you? Mira’s child would need this in a few weeks, even if he isn’t a void dragon. It is the perfect place to incubate a god’s power and prevent it from running wild.” She rolled on the bed she slept on. “I planned for this to take place a year or two in the future, when you’re a few stages down the line, and when Eris is much, much more powerful.”

“There is the obvious solution of you making it. But I guess that isn’t an option.” As Arad spoke, Amaterasu replied immediately. “So how about this? If she fails five times, I’ll make it for her.”

Eris flew out of Arad’s arms and looked at him with a large smile. “Don’t worry, I’ll make it happen. Who knows, in a few minutes, we might have already solved this problem.”

Arad looked at the burning sun once more and then took a deep breath of the nothing of his stomach. “Very well. We shall do it.”

He looked at Eris, then pointed at the sun. “You start, what should I do?”

Eris looked serious for once, and her eyes burned with divine magic. “I’ll first sever this sun from my domain, then cause its core to collapse on itself and implode. That should initiate the star’s death, and as it is exploding, I’ll crush it down with gravity.”

“And, my job is to get you out of here if something goes wrong. This is the inside of my stomach after all. In any case, I’ll be the one to end up with a sore stomach, or one with a gaping hole.”

This sun was massive, far too massive in fact. It was bigger than anything that Arad had ever seen before, and it dwarfed his elemental expansion like how the moon would dwarf a small kingdom. But thankfully, that didn’t matter much, because it was inside his stomach.

If this sun were floating outside in the void, Arad wouldn’t be able to swallow it whole, but since it was born inside his stomach, it could fit. But that also meant that he can’t spit it out now.

The sun flashed with light, Eris’s arms burned, and her entire body exploded with divine radiance. Arad felt the same harrowing gravitational pull that he felt when Eris first ascended into godhood, and now, it was all confined inside his stomach.

Thankfully, they were far away from his inner world, and thanks to his stomach, he could keep them separate. But if this happened outside in the mortal world, Eris would’ve just obliterated the entire world.

A goddess was now trying to shatter a star, a feat of cosmic proportion that mortals couldn’t imagine or fathom, yet Arad stood here, basking in the flames and radiation just a few hundred kilometers away from that sun’s surface.

The people living inside Arad’s inner world all woke up to stare at the night’s sky, a random star in the boundless darkness flashed violently, so brightly that it illuminated the world like a second moon. They couldn’t believe their eyes, but the vampires and priests of Eris could feel it better than anyone else.

Sol, the lesser sun, was now trying achieve a feat only touched by Amaterasu herself. This wasn’t the time for her faithful to sleep or wallow in their worldly duties. They all woke up to pray, to worship, and to grant her as much divine power as they possibly could. They didn’t know what exactly their goddess was doing, but they knew it was better for her to succeed.

To murder a star and achieve a new divine dimension.