The dragon's harem

Chapter 863  Back To School With a New Title

As the festival in Gojo's land continued, change was taking place in the university. Words of Uranus taking over the massive desert spread like wildfire and some people started panicking. It didn't take a single week after the fight of Korah/Jordan for the news of it to reach the students, they couldn't believe that such a monster existed.

White Gojo and Alcott were there, and most of the credit went to the named monster, Uranus. His title quickly changed from the kingdom destroyer to the divine eater. A monster so powerful that it hunts and feeds upon the gods.

"Did you hear?" Matilda said with a tired face, "They say Uranus punched a god to death and ate him. Those people are ridiculous, such a thing can't happen." She sighed.

"Gods can't be harmed by mortals…" Selina added, and slowly lifted her head, looking at Arad sitting before them. It's been three weeks since the incident and his soul recovered enough that he can morph again into a humanoid form and his curse has finally settled down.

"I agree…I can't imagine, punching a god…." He could clearly remember when he bites Korah's face off. "By the way…" He immediately tried to change the subject, "About Jack's body modification, did you get anything?"

"I can surgically install a magic crystal inside his body, but I can't possibly guess how would his body react. I've seen your research on the adventurer Gura, but that doesn't seem to help with how." She searched through her back and pulled out the papers Arad had written for her.

Matilda looked at him, "That's an A-rank barbarian, how did you manage to talk to her? I mean, barbarians are already hard to talk with, they get enraged on a whim. I can't believe you managed to have a full interview with her, even get blood samples without a fight."

One student stared at them from the side, "Barbarians love big muscles. She was struck dead by his look, he's as tall as the doors and as wide as them."

"Are you stupid?" Matilda growled at him, "Barbarians value strength, not look. She wouldn't care less if he's huge or as thing as a broom."

"But it helps. Doesn't it…Just look at him." The student smiled, "You see him and you can know a punch from him would hurt."

"I'm not punching anyone unless they attack me first." Arad said with a smile. "Gura is surprisingly nice and easy to talk with."

"Still…" Selina stacked the papers and pushed them toward Arad, "Gura herself doesn't know how her crystal works, she got it in a freak accident. I need to research more, it'll help to experiment a bit…but that… how should I say it…" She scratched her head.

"Not fond of experimenting on humans. I can catch you some bandits." Arad tilted his head.

The three stared at him with a passive face, "Them being bandits doesn't make it right. What are you thinking about?" Matilda sighed, "How about people who won't die and are used to pain, like werewolves and vampires?"

"It won't work, those are magically built different than humans. Can you get me to meet the person who installed Jack's arm and liver?" Selina asked with a serious face.

"Ah, his name is Cain. An old herbalist living in Alina." Arad smiled, "I'll take you to meet him on the weekends."

"Everyone! Get on your seats, I'm starting the class." Lucia walked toward her desk and lifted her large book, tapping her head. "Your classmate Arad here has been out on a long break due to an injury, please share your notes with him. We don't want him to be falling behind."

Arad looked at her, "About that, I already finished everything." He said with a passive face.

"Finished what?" Lucia gasped.

"I borrowed Selina's notes yesterday and revised them, I even finished copying them to my notebook." He showed Lucia his notebook, he had already finished writing over fifty pages. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Hold up, one night? Everything?" She rushed in and looked at his notebook. It was faint, but since she taught a lot of people she could tell that not all pages were written by the same person. The people who helped Arad tried to mimic his handwriting, but it was obviously done in a hurry.

"Well…can you make us some of the potions and alchemical concoctions that we went through? I'll bring everything you need from the lab, you can see it as a small test." She smiled.

"Of course." Arad nodded. Even though he had the vampires in his stomach help. Apparently, some of them were scholars and apprentice alchemists so he had them help, there were even people among the bandit vampires who knew how to forge documents and handwriting.

As Lucia went out, Matilda turned toward Arad, "Are you sure? One night isn't enough to go through everything. I don't know how you got everything written down, but live memory won't help in potion making."

"I can do it." Arad nodded with a smile.

"Forget about that." The student from before looked at Arad with a smile, "I want to know, what kind of thing injured you like this? We haven't seen you since the beaver incident, don't tell me those little wood eaters got you."

"A huge demonic monster was in there. I managed to beat it, but got injured pretty badly." Arad looked out the window, "The beavers are fine." He could remember, he had moved them into his territory after coming back. For now, they are working to help develop his land under Mira's orders.

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"Look, my lord Arad…" Flatail smiled, "Hundreds of beavers beating their wood all day long for you and Lady Mira's sake." He tapped the ground with his tail, "I'll beat it over and over until I die."

"You mean hammering. You were asked to build a dam, but a more civilized one…" Arad pointed at the beavers hammering large wooden poles into the river to block it.

"They are hitting the wood with a hammer so it's a beating…like you don't say hammering beavers, beaver doesn't get hammered, unless it's sir Alcott…he gave us wine and said getting drunk if called getting hammered." Flatail titled his head, "They are pouring wine on their wood."

"I don't know…" Arad said with a slow voice, "I know how to speak, but not why words were chosen. But forget about that, since you're building a dam, what about the river after it? The farms still need water."

"About that…" Flatail lifted his hand and shouted at the beavers. "AHHHHHHHHHH!"

They all looked at him and shouted back. "AHHHHHHHHH!"

"They say the wooden pumps are already deployed. The responsible beavers would start pumping their wood as soon as the river starts to dry." He waved his hand, pointing at the wooden water pumps on the sides.

"I see…" Arad smiled, "If everything is going fine, I'll go back. Just work as Mira and Isdis ordered. I'll come check on you each week. I've already informed Ignis about you, she won't hurt you."

"Thank you…" Flatail said with a passive face, that little red drakaina attacked them the moment they started building the dam. She thought they were trying to damage wildlife and burned their dam to ash.

Even a red wyrmling is still as dangerous as a large lion, that breathes fire and is intelligent.

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Inside the class, Lucia returned with everything and asked Arad to show off if he really learned what he missed, and to her surprise, he immediately made all the potions and concoctions. Unlike everyone else, his learning speed seems to be out of the chart, as if his brain isn't human.

Several minutes after he finished, someone started knocking on the door. He could tell who it was by the smell, but Lucia couldn't. She approached the door and opened it up, "We're in the middle of the class, who is it?"

She looked left and right and saw nothing. She closed the door with a sigh, "I thought this university is full of adults, who play such pranks at this age…"

The door immediately got kicked open and Betty growled at her, "Am I that short? You didn't even see me?!"

"Sorry!" Lucia cried, "I didn't see you…you're…" She was about to say too short and quickly changed her mind, "… suppressing your magic, right…I didn't feel you."

"Yeah…" Betty sighed and turned toward Arad, "Come with me to my office, I got someone that wants to meet you."

"Who is it?" Arad tilted his head, he could tell from a single glance that she was troubled. "Can't you tell them off?"

"It's complicated, just come." She grabbed him by the hand and pulled him out. He couldn't sense anyone in her office from here, whoever they were, they shouldn't be too strong. "Should I be worried?" He asked.

"Yes and no, it depends on how you talk with them. Please act respectfully as much as possible, she's quite old despite her look, and can get easily triggered."

They reached Betty's office and Arad grabbed the handle. "Listen, I know you don't like it, but be respectful as much as possible." Betty made it clear, that the one inside is a problem. At this moment, Arad already had one person in mind, Betty's grandma Luminous. From his few encounters with her, he can see why she's a pain.

"Excuse me…" Arad walked inside the office, only to see Betty in her underwear, tied with a rope to the ceiling lamp and growling. Arad froze for a second… "That isn't Luminous, or is she?" He had only seen Luminous as a ball of light.

"AH! The grandma? She's in the closet. This little Betty told me to fuck off when I asked to meet you, so I tied. The grandma came to save her, so I put her here." The one standing behind Arad walked toward the close, her white hair slowly turning red. She opened the closet door only for a blinding light to gush out.

Arad could hear Luminous growling inside, she was tied as well.

"So, it's been a while, little boy." Lilia walked toward the desk and jumped over it, sitting cross-legged as she stared at Arad with a smile.

"You're that woman from the tower!" He gasped, clenching a fist, ready to smack her into ash.

"You might be surprised, but I'm not the one looking for you." She smiled, reaching into her pocket. "It's an old friend of mine, someone who doesn't know how to joke."