Chapter 873: Bringing Them Back
Arad lifted the thug's leader by the head and turned him toward himself, "Who'll pay for the broken window?" He glared at him.
The leader reached into his pocket and pulled some gold coins, "I'll do it..."
Arad took the gold and threw him out of the shop, "I don't want to waste time cleaning blood, scram." He growled at them and they ran away.
"Sebas leaves for a few minutes and they come...I guess we need to tighter security." Roberta sighed, looking at Arad with a smile. "That should be a merchant called Dimiris if I'm not wrong." She approached Arad, "Can we stop by the castle to inform the royal guards? They'll deal with him."
"Yeah, we'll get Bob to fix the window. Are you all right, mother Lyla?" Arad nodded and approached Lyla.
"Yeah... I just hope they won't trash the shop while we're away." She tilted her head with a worried face.
Arad nodded, "I see... Dorian," he said and a thin man emerged from his shadow and bowed. He was wearing the clothes of a priest with a necklace shaped like a dragon on his neck.
"My lord..." The man kneeled, "To think I'll be called." He said with an excited face, his hands shivering.
"Get ten people and guard the place. You'll deal with a builder and maybe some guards, but I don't want any thugs to trash the place. And, don't kill anyone, especially thieves. They know not to attack shops related to me, but newbies might get ahead of themselves." Arad said without even looking at him.
"As you order, I shall not spill a single drop of blood. Do I get permission to call the guards to take the thugs to jail?" He said with a passive face.
"Of course. I'll inform the guards," Arad turned and gave the vampire priest a bottle of blood. "Use this in case any of you get harmed by the sun. It'll protect for a few minutes if Zia is right." Arad then turned back to Roberta and Lyla, "He's a trusted man, we can leave the place."
"My Lord! Your words are a waste on me." The vampire priest smiled.
Arad approached Roberta and Lyla, "Did you get all of your things?" He looked at the bags they were carrying, and they indeed nodded. Arad walked forward and touched their shoulders, "First stop, the castle. Are you used to this yet?"
[Void Step] ZON! Arad teleported with them to the castle, but they landed alone. "Where is Arad?" Lyla gasped, looking around with a surprised face, "We really went there in the blink of an eye."
"Yeah." He flipped his palm upside down with them standing on it, but they didn't fall. To them, the origin of gravity was his palm. "The same is true for my neck, once you sit, you shouldn't feel worse than a normal horse. But some get scared of height, so be careful." "Be safe." Baltos waved his hand as Arad slowly trotted into the forest.
"You're going to run there?" Roberta asked.
"I'm not heavy, am I?" Lyla looked at Arad, "I know you're a dragon and all, but don't exhaust yourself." She patted his neck.
Arad giggled, "I'm stronger than I look." Said the massive, almost thirty-meter-tall bodybuilder dragon with enough might to shake mountains, but he was in fact, stronger than
he looks.
Arad ran across the forest like a big cat, his wings tucked to his sides. With a single leap, he reached the first mountain and jumped to another, quacking the ground all the way to Alina as he moved at an extreme speed.
Roberta and Lyla cried on the back of his neck, terrified at how he was moving. In their life, they never expected to get such a ride, a trip that should take days, he was making them in a single leap. A massive flock of wyverns scattered from one of the mountains the moment Arad landed, and they all looked at him, terrified.
Seeing the wyverns, Arad expanded his wings and flew into the sky. Behind him they followed, basking in his presence. "Where are you all going?" Arad asked the wyverns.
Their leader, the oldest of them pointed west with his head, "Hunt, food, migrate." Wyverns migrate every several years to fight new hunting grounds, which is why they don't kill
ecosystems.
"It's on my way, remain close." Arad smiled as he flew, and the wyverns kept close to him as they flew above the clouds.
As the wyverns flew with Arad, they sang and roared, chanting to the glory of the dragon they flew beneath. Even monsters had a hierarchy to them, and dragons were at the top almost everywhere. To the wyverns, it was like commoners who always traversed the harsh lands alone, finding a royal parade that allowed them to tag along, enjoying the protection of the
king's presence.
Lyla looked at the wyverns, even one of them would send cities into emergency protocol, all of those were at least A-rank monsters, but all of them flew carefully beneath Arad's wings. And when accelerated to save time, all of them would land on his massive back. Roberta tried to touch one of them, and they all were extremely calm and docile, even though wyverns were known as raging monsters. As nature dictates, the wyverns could tell with a single sniff, those two are females, and since they are sitting on the dragon's back, they only
expect one thing.
In around four hours, Arad delivered the wyverns to their new hunting ground and reached the beast kingdom, landing in the forest near Iron Snake Lake Village.