Chapter 906: Still Reserved

Chapter 906: Still Reserved



After dinner finished, Merlin called Arad and the rest to her room, warning them beforehand about the influx of magic inside. They all stood before the door, and Arad reached for the doorknob, slowly turning it open. Pushing the door open, a flash of majestic light washed over them.

Mira gasped as they all walked inside, unlike them, her room was far more massive, several times bigger than their rooms combined. But this wasn't something provided by Hati, it was Merlin's magic at work. She had used this spell multiple times before to make the inside of the carriages larger, but now she had infused it with her labyrinth magic, turning her rooms into something akin to mini-one-room dungeons.

Merlin was already inside the room, resting on her large couch with Astid massaging her shoulder, Frida on the other was painting her nails purple with magic-infused ink. "Welcome to my humble abode, Arad." She stood and looked at them, waving her fingers and tracing a purple thread in the air.

A large ceramic table emerged from the ground; it was large enough to fit Arad. "This should be enough." She looked back at Astrid and Frida.

"Yeah." Astrid replied, "Can we get to work already?" Frida sighed as she approached the table.

"They'll massage you while Mira supplies healing magic and I supply magic." Merlin explained what was going to happen to Arad. Currently, Astrid and Frida are going to be doing the job that Merida and Eris would fulfill, Arad is extremely powerful, and for him to work at his maximum efficiency at all times he needs special care, a care that mostly only his wives could provide.

Using teleportation in the middle of acceleration seemed fine as long as you nail it, but even with perfect execution and timing, the sudden shift in space, the rushing magic, and the turn in acceleration and deceleration cause some cells to teleport before others, leading internal damage that spread across the whole body.

While Arad's outer appearance seemed fine and he didn't feel anything besides being tired, he was in fact suffering from a decent chunk of damage across his whole body. 15% of Arad's cells have already died due to the tiny malfunction in his teleportation magic and he needs healing to be able to go at 100% of his power tomorrow.

This amount of damage might not be clear today, but it's a multitude of tiny and minuscule amounts of damage that accumulated through the day, and they'll keep accumulating if Arad doesn't get attention and proper healing.

Arad took his clothes off and laid on the table, looking down with an exhausted face, "Fine by me. Do what you want." He indeed didn't feel like he had taken any damage, and even his vampire senses didn't detect any damage in his body, trying to heal himself or regenerate isn't working.

Merlin approached Arad and smacked him on the forehead gently with her staff, "I can confirm that now that you're in my labyrinth, your whole body is damaged. Flesh, bones, organs, even your hair is damaged, I'm taking any balding husband."

"Smacking my head isn't going to help that hair grow back." He looked at her with a smile on his exhausted face.

Merlin glared at him, "That damage, it's most accumulated on your brain and spine, did you throw them you?" crouched down and glared at his eyes.

Astrid and Frida who were getting ready to start gasped, they looked at him and Merlin with confused faces. "Throw what?"

matter who. One of you should let Arad hug her for a bit."

Merlin immediately looked at Isdis, "You, Mira is applying her magic to his back."

"Well, let's see." Isdis smiled and approached Arad. He slowly extended his arms forward and hugged her torso.

"{That doesn't work, get a bit down. Arad, hug her across the chest.}" Doma immediately told her to crouch down so he could reach her while lying on the table. The moment Isdis did that and Arad hugged her, Merlin's debuff managed to activate on him.

Even when Arad is calm, his body is always putting a minimum amount of caution and defense. He isn't doing it on purpose, but in this current situation, he isn't in a situation

where he's fully safe.

Merlin, Astrid, Frida, Isdis, Mira, and Tina all where in the room, and Arad could only relax around three of them. Isdis, Mira and Tina. His body is naturally defending itself against Astrid and Frida by remaining harder than they could damage, and by keeping his magic surging stronger than what this small labyrinth that Merlin made could affect.

When even Arad himself couldn't understand it, Doma who was watching him for a long time could explain it to the rest. Arad sets a clear line between his wives, his servants, and anyone

else.

Arad's power is almost completely sealed when dealing with his wife and children so he won't hurt them by mistake. All of his movements become extremely docile and gentle and his magic drops by a massive amount. That is why Mira could drag him by the ear with ease, but sadly that didn't change the hardness of his scales.

While with his servants, Like Zia, Arad's power isn't reserved, but he's also holding back quite

a bit. He treats them with respect and is careful all the time to make sure they are safe from his power. A strange example would be Tina, he treats her more like a wife than a servant now

that he adopted Serin.

While the previous two categories are protected by Arad's unconscious mind, the rest can only be protected actively. His power isn't held back to make sure they are safe, he actively avoids harming them, but sometimes that isn't enough.

After hearing the explanation, Merlin thought back to her coming fight with Arad, she needs

to earn his trust, the trust he needs to treat her like one of his wives. She could see it now in effect, he was still weary of her magic deep down.