The dragon's harem
Chapter 870: Holy Fire Dragon Rider

Chapter 870: Holy Fire Dragon Rider

Arad sliced the T-rex into small pieces and stored the head as a trophy, the other students all gathered around the massive flames to cook the meat. There was no particular cook, everyone just sliced what they wanted from the meat with knives and started grilling it themselves, there was that much meat for them to choose from.

The drivers, Isdis, and her guards, everyone started eating, and soon they found something, all the T-rex's meat was as tough as leather and had a strong pungent smell to it. Most couldn't even get it close to their mouths, let alone try to chew it.

Zara took a large bite and stared at them, "It isn't considered a delicacy for taste but for its rarity. Only hunters strong enough to hunt it, or those wealthy enough to pay someone to risk their lives to hunt it are capable of tasting Death Jaw's meat." He looked at Arad who was chewing down on the beast's thigh.

"And Aron hunted it?" One of the students looked at Arad.

"That's right." Zara sighed, "He'll not only be able to survive here but probably would become one of the richest and most powerful hunters in the beast land with such power." He then looked at Matilda, "Unlike you..."

"Why bring me into the conversation?" she gasped.

"A human had surpassed you in hunting." Zara replied.

"You as well, I've never seen you hunt a death jaw. Don't compare Aron with anyone, he's the outlier." She cried, "Aron, isn't that right?"

"She's right," Arad replied while still munching, "It'll be unfair to compare me to most people. Instead of aiming too high, how about tackling what is in front of you first?" He looked at her with a smile, "Hunt a bison first, and then look at bigger prey."

Arad cut a large piece of meat and gave it to Ignis who was running around his legs and eating, she started munching, and Serin walked away from Mira's side and headed toward him.

"D...a...d!" She reached up with her arms and he looked at her with a smile, "Want some?" He sliced a thin strip of meat and crushed it in his palm to tender it. He then grilled on the flames and gave it to Serin.

Serin could barely eat it, the best she could do was nibble and suck on its juices. Arad patted her head, "You must eat to grow."

After eating their fill, Arad pulled the death jaw's poison gland and some of its scales to the class to see. He lifted the gland in his palm and approached Lucia, "Where do I put this thing?"

"Don't touch it directly!" She cried and rushed to bring a small leather bag and engraved a cold magic circle on it. "We're in the middle of a trip, we'll postpone studying it until later." She then quickly pointed at the scales, "Keep those, they are used in creating anti-magic armor and weapons, they are quite valuable."

Arad nodded, "I see..." He immediately turned toward Mira, "Can you make something with them?"

Arad usually only had basic armor like leather or steel as his scales provided all the defense he needed, wearing his old scales also didn't seem to make any sense. But, the death jaw's scales are a different thing. If those things can help him negate magic, or even reduce its effectiveness then it'll be a sweet bonus.

"Mira, are you making another thing?" Several students from Mira's class approached her and Arad. "Those scales must be hard to work with." One added.

"Yeah, they are resistant to magic so they'll be hard to use. And I'm not that good with stuff like this," She waved her hand over the scales, "I'm better with wood."

"How about a chainmail?" One added, "Link them with metal rings made from something like adamantine to get strong magic conductivity, this would allow the scales to both absorb mana and distribute what they couldn't absorb to nearby scales, effectively chaining their power."

"Would that work?" Arad asked but he quickly turned around and looked back toward Serin, she was standing beside Ignis. From the trees, tens of velociraptors crawled out, growling.

Everyone cried and Ignis stood beside Serin, grunting with fire gushing from her back.

"Serin!" Tina cried but Arad waved his hand, "It's fine. Just watch."

One of the velociraptors slowly approached Serin, sniffing the air as he growled. Serin lifted her tiny hand and reached forward, touching the monster's nose.

"They are dangerous?" Tina looked at Arad. "The hell are you thinking?!" Zara growled, "They'll rip her apart!"

The velociraptor's tail spiker up as he opened his mouth to bite, but at that moment, a golden spark flickered in Serin's tiny palm. A blinding flash of light exploded, and when it cleared, the velociraptor's body was stuck to a tree, bleeding.

Serin stood in her place, the ground around her smoking. That was a divine smite, she's a sorceress with a divine bloodline, Arad had once tasted that smite of hers, and he knew those monsters would killed in a single hit.

For countless days when Arad played with her, he sometimes pretended to be a monster, growling and rushing at her to bite. She just laughs it off, but he has managed to teach her that if someone beside him is acting like that, she'll let her magic out. It was like teaching a kid to slap someone, but this time it's a divine smite.

Zara stared at Serin with an open mouth, but he wasn't alone, everyone else stared at Serin with a shocked face, even her mother Tina. "That's my little girl." Arad smiled, the countless times he got hit with her smite wasn't in vain.

Another velociraptor rushed at Serin from the side, and she couldn't dodge, she didn't know how to do that. When the velociraptor opened his mouth to leap at her, his head got crushed beneath Ignis's burning claw. Individually, wyrmlings are far stronger than velociraptors. Ignis grabbed Serin from the back with a bite and threw her on her back. "Hold on!" She growled in draconic.

Laughing and giggling, Serin grabbed onto Ignis's back, divine magic started surging from her and rushing into Ignis's body, turning her crimson flames golden.

Ignis flashed her wings and roared, a golden spark igniting in her throat [Holy Fire Dragon Breath] A golden stream of fire gushed out of her mouth, burning one of the velociraptors and drawing a line on the ground with flames.

The velociraptors panicked, running around as the heat reached them, but Ignis wasn't going to let them run. She flapped he wings and jumped into a tree, using her claws to climb up, and then glided after them, swinging her claw down.

[Holy Fire Dragon's Iron Claw] She cut one of the velociraptors' necks in a single swing and

quickly followed with a tail strike to drop the next one.

"That's Aron's daughter?" One of the students gasped.

"She's riding a red wyrmling and fighting velociraptors?" Matilda gasped.

"Why aren't the flames burning her?" Selina mumbled.

Arad looked at them with a smile, "Serin can't control her holy magic, the best she could do is release it. There are two cases, if she likes the target, they would get infused with the holy magic, if she hates them, they'll get blasted in a smite." He pointed at the glowing Serin, "She's now releasing her divine magic into Ignis, and since she likes her, Ignis is getting

infused."

"That doesn't answer my question." Selina pulled her staff, she was ready to assist Ignis and

Serin.

"Serin's clothes are made from red dragon leather, and since Ignis's flames are infused with Serin's holy magic, Serin is resistant to them. In this case, she only feels like she's sitting on a warm stool." Arad explained with a large smile on his face.

"I know it doesn't seem like it, but all of Serin's clothes were enchanted with defensive spells. Aron was getting paranoid after she dropped from her bed and got a bump." Mira scratched her head, "Even her diaper is made of enchanted demon spider silk."

"I tested her clothes," Arad smiled, "She won't get hurt even if those monsters bit her. Of course, unless they aim for the exposed head." He cracked his neck, "It's about time." Two velociraptors lunged at Ignis from the sides. She can dodge and attack one, but she'll be moving at a rapid pace and Serin won't be able to keep holding onto her back. She has to take one bit on her tail and fight the other one.

Arad pulled a sword and took a stance, everyone stared at him, this was the first time they saw him actually using a weapon. They've heard he's a fighter, but they didn't know just how

powerful he is.

"Action Surge, Adrenaline Rush." Arad simply pretended to use those skills and lunged forward at a blinding speed, slashing all of the velociraptors in the blink of an eye with a

thunderclap.

Ignis gasped as she saw him standing beside her, she was expecting the velociraptors' attack, but it seemed he had saved her. Arad squatted down and patted them both, "You've done a good job. Sorry for interfering, but I'll not let you two get injured."

The velociraptors' corpses fell on the ground, bleeding as everyone stared at him lifting Serin from Ignis's back and walking with them to the carriages. "It seems this place is a bit more dangerous than home, please keep her close by." Arad gave Serin back to Tina.

"Can I have the ones I killed?" Ignis asked and Arad nodded, "They are all yours." She rushed

back to bring them.

"Are you by any chance that strong?" Matilda approached Arad with a confused face. "The death jaw and the swarming biters. Those are notorious for killing hunters." "Aron is the strongest fighter here." Isdis came from behind her, "That's why I hired him as our guard." She tapped Matilda's shoulder, "That size and those muscles aren't for show."