Chapter 2299: Arad’s Hibernation XI

Lilia nodded and looked at the war plan the two queens were going over. The plan itself was simple, but clever. It outlined where each of them would part her flying continent, where the dragons would move, when, and the numbers sent to each location. Just looking at the plan, a regular person might conclude that this massive draconic war would destroy the planet’s surface, but the moves themselves were so precise and clean that the people on the surface would only notice slight shifts in the temperature, distant thunder, and flashing lightning.

"So, what are the stakes today?" Lilia asked, and Lola licked her lips. "Gold and gems; the one who loses this time has to pay." She glared at Mary with glowing rainbow eyes as her heart started beating like a loud bongo drum.

"Those moves are quite bold." Mary returned the glare with a large grin as she pointed at Lola’s moves. "Do you remember what will happen if your attacks spill to the surface? Or is ten years enough for your peanut brain to forget?"

Lola burst laughing. "Of course not! I’ve planned for years, and this time I won’t fail. One bold charge to win for the coming years!" She swung her arms, and Lilia sighed, rubbing her face. "That’s what you said last time. You’ll be humiliated again."

Lola paled for a second. "Oh, about that... I don’t mind Mary or you, but surely not the others..." She looked at the walls, and all of the drakainas lined there. Each of the Queens have a Hundred Drakainas as counselors here.

Gojo looked around at the drakainas. The weakest of them was a Great Wyrm, and the majority were Elder Drakainas. But one thing drew Gojo’s attention... their magic was linked to this massive room; they can’t leave.

That in itself wasn’t a problem since this room wasn’t a regular room, but a whole Demi-plane created by Lilia’s magic, and the two floating kingdoms{The Flying Fortress of the Metallic Dragons and the Radiant Floating Rainbow Mountain of the Chromatic Dragons} were here once.

The large door at the room’s corner doesn’t lead back to the Mortal World, but to that Endless Demi-plane, and that’s where those powerful counselors live, having divided this small world into two hundred different domains.

The Queens use those counselors for several different things, and probably for everything. Those counselors advise the queens on the war, maintain this Demi-plane, clean the royal chamber, entertain the queen, and are even used for sexual pleasure by the queens. But what scared Gojo a bit is that the queens would eat any of the counselors who don’t want to serve anymore, and then replace them with a new drakaina from their kingdom.

He could even see several races of dragons that he had never seen before, and some of them were far too horrifying.

In the corner of the room stood a fully invisible and horrifying Elder Drakaina; if Lilia hadn’t pointed her out, Gojo would’ve never noticed her. She was a pure Force Drakaina, or as they are called, Translucent Dragons. She controls the element of Force and serves under Lola.

In the other Corner there was a silvery-looking Elder Drakaina, which was supposedly a Mercury Drakaina, and beside her a Polonium Elder Drakaina, whatever that metal was... Gojo only knew that she was more toxic than most of Claug’s concoctions.

^I guess... not all Metallic and Chromatic dragons exist in the Mortal World.^ Gojo thought, and he was right. Those two Queens don’t just rule the mortal world dragons, but the dragons in all other worlds, and that was the reason their royal chamber was linked to a single one so they wouldn’t keep hopping from one world to the other.

Then came the realization that horrified him the most. In the Mortal World, each of the queens is lifting a continent-sized piece of land above the clouds to act as their respective homeland... well, that wasn’t the end of the story. The Queens are using their power to lift similar continent-sized pieces of land in every single world that they rule.

Their power was already absurd, and now Gojo came to realize that those two queens were even more powerful. Shouldn’t they stand with the gods with such an absurd level of strength? The answer to that was funny at best, and horrifying at most.

The two queens were already powerful enough to stand as divines; the only reason they aren’t is that the spots are already taken by Tiamat and Bahamut. Leaving Tiamat, who changed several times, aside, Bahamut is Asgorath’s son, and he is still alive to this day, ruling with an absurd level of power; and he is also Mary’s father.

Mary is willing, wanting, or planning to kill her father, so his throne is safe. And for Tiamat... from what Mary said, it won’t be strange to see her coming here to have some fun with the two queens, so Lola won’t be taking the throne of someone she sleeps with.

Another scary part is that only Drakainas are allowed here with the strict restriction that absolute obedience to the queens is mandatory. But they still allowed him here, and from what he learned, he is the only dragon allowed here.

He sighed. "Mary, got anything about souls?" As Gojo asked, Mary, Lola, and Lilia all looked at him. "Souls... those are a bit complicated." She waved her hand to one of her counselors, "Bring him all the books he need. Even the restricted ones."

That counselor nodded and immediately flew away, returning a minute later with a stack of books. She set them on Gojo’s desk, bowed, and returned to standing in her spot.

"If you want to test the magic, feel free to use any of my counselors." Lola waved her hand, and Lilia immediately shoved her foot in her mouth. "He sure appreciates the offer, but soul magic becomes harder to use the older the target gets because their soul is bound even more tightly to their flesh. Dragons have even tougher souls."

Lilia then shifted her head to look at Gojo. "If you want, I can give you young humans to test on. I got everything from fresh out of the womb to elders over a hundred years old."

Gojo waved his hand. "No thanks, too many variables. I’ll test the magic on my own souls. I got two, so I should be fine."

Hearing his response, Lilia burst laughing. She then stopped. "You won’t ask where I got all of those humans?"

"It doesn’t matter how you explain it. It can’t be good."

Lilia smiled. "But it is, in fact, good, mostly." She looked down at Lola and immediately pulled her foot from her mouth, since Lola seemed to be enjoying herself.

Lilia then waved her hand, and two humans appeared wearing ragged clothes with pale horrified faces. A man and a woman.

"The criminals who die in my world are rarely sent to hell, since I need bodies for my experiments." She swung her hand, and the man was beheaded. The splashing blood was caught with magic, and his corpse floated up in a bubble-shaped barrier.

Lilia then pulled a black soul from the man’s corpse, approached the woman, and pushed the soul into her stomach. "See? Now she is pregnant with him. Nifty, isn’t it?"