Arad stood and looked up, seeing the sky above him shift and twist. The Flying Fortress had arrived.
The tallic Dragons’ Flying Steel Fortress was a massive flying continent of steel, armored plates, and cannons the size of volcanoes. Millions of massive artillery cannons and balistas all moving and aiming at anything the fortress flies by.
Just one of those countless cannons could blast a whole city into outer space with a single shot. It was terrifying to think that Arad himself saw this fortress as far more threatening than Sylph’s heaven.
From what Arad could sense, the fortress was massive, almost four thousand kiloters in diater, hexagonal in shape, and surrounded by a haze of illusion magic for camouflage.
Even to Arad, the fortress’s ability to perfectly camouflage itself and blend into the sky was utterly incomprehensible.
From what Arad knows, Mary is the na of the tallic Queen. She is Steel Drakaina and the mother of ti dragons, the daughter of Bahamut, the only Platinum dragon, and the God of tallic dragons.
He had t her several tis and could rember her harrowing power, especially that ti she went to the past to threaten him and Tina. It didn’t matter how powerful he is now, she can always go to the past and kill him right after he was born.
And if her ti powers weren’t enough, this entire Steel Fortress was made from her draconic magic and lifted into the clouds with her Gravity Magic. She is the one moving this entire thing like it’s nothing, making it clear she is nothing short of a monster that Arad didn’t want to fight.
Arad only had to wait for a few seconds after the fortress showed up before a dragon approached him. This ti, it was a great wyrm steel dragon, looking like a young twenty-five-year-old man with no beard, silky short auburn hair, and radiant green eyes.
"Oh my, you’re huge, aren’t you?" The dragon landed a few ters in front of Arad, staring at him with a gentle, carefree stare.
Arad stood and stored his chair away. He glanced at the dragon for a mont and then looked at the fortress. "I expected Kinryuu to co. But you sll like the Queen."
The dragon tilted his head slightly and smiled, his green eyes reflecting the world behind Arad. "Of course I do. She is my mother."
"Mother said I have to go pick you up. I didn’t know what to expect from a human emperor that is also a dragon with your unusual track record."
The dragon’s silver armor shifted and moved, turning into a flowing noble coat. He was mimicking the attire of Ruris Kingdom generals, albeit it looked a bit different from what the generals wore today.
"I served in the army of Ruris three hundred years ago, died to an arrow to the neck." He giggled, his clothes shifting once more, this ti into rags, "I was also a beggar there for a couple of years. Ah, I rember that gentle, noble lady. She picked off the streets, fed well, then at night tortured to death and threw my corpse into a ditch for the rats to eat."
He smiled, "Guess how she died."
Arad glared at him, "You killed her?"
"I ca back as a noble, married her, then abused her for two decades before throwing her into the sewers to get eaten by the rats. She never got another poor soul tortured since the day I got my hands on her."
Arad frowned, "Could’ve just tipped the guards."
"What could they do? She had over fifty victims before , and no one did anything." He took a few steps forward, "Soone had to make her cry."
Arad looked up, sighed, and then glared at the dragon, "So? What’s your na? Why are we talking about this?"
The dragon smiled, "Loki, and to let you know, I rarely stay at the fortress. Guess where I was last?"
Arad looked at Loki for a while, "I can’t quite figure it out. I believe we never t."
"Of course, we didn’t. I was living my life as a humble slave to one beautiful vampire lady in Vlad’s kingdom. She was tall, beautiful, and quite gentle, unlike the other vampires." He frowned, "Until soone dropped a sun on our heads."
"Oh, so you were living in Vlad’s kingdom... Sorry, at the ti, I wasn’t in control of that [Ho-white Nova]." Arad scratched the back of his head.
"I know, I know. Mother told ." Loki sighed, "But, what a waste of a beautiful lady. I was even considering taking her with after my little playti ended."
"Care to describe her for ? Vampires rarely die, and Vlad took many of them with him." Arad looked inside his stomach, where Vlad’s entire army was.
Loki’s eyes flashed, "Yeah! She was tall, a bit taller than now. Her eyes and hair are black, she has a mole beneath her lip on the right side, a large chest, a powerful build, and a twisted personality. Lady Ferloin."
Arad closed his eyes, sending a ssage to Zia.
"Zia, I’m here with a dragon looking for a vampire woman called Ferloin, tall, with black hair and eyes, a mole beneath her lip, and well built." Arad sent the ssage and waited for a few seconds before he got a reply.
"I got her, but she is locked away. She did prey on humans without notifying the church. So, basically, they attacked and drank the blood of potentially innocent people."
Arad nodded, heard Zia’s full report, and then turned back to Loki. "I got her, but right now she is a criminal. I have rules set for who the vampires can feed on."
"Can’t give her to ?" Loki looked a bit sad, and Arad shook his head, "I can give her to you, that won’t be a problem. I believe you will make sure she doesn’t cause any more trouble, right?"
"Of course, who do you think I am? I’m Loki, a prince of the tallic Dragons!" He puffed his chest with a proud smile.
"Yeah, I’ve seen good Chromatic dragons, so I’d assu there are enough evil tallic dragons out there as well." Arad looked at him. "And from my experience, nobles and royalty are the most evil."
Arad then waved his hand and Ferloin appeared in front of him, wearing a white gown and with both her arms and feet shackled; she even had a tallic gag so she won’t bite anything.
She looked around and Loki patted her on the head, "Don’t worry, it’s , Little Garry. We’ll talk later." He imdiately teleported her away and turned toward Arad.
"Thank you for handing her to . I hope this will be the first amongst many fruitful relationships." He waved his hands and started flying, "Would mine follow ? The fortress’s gates are wide open."
The two flew up, floating into the sky without wings, carried away by the mystical waves of the Queen’s gravity magic.
The closer they got to the fortress, the more worried Arad got, because the place looked more and more hostile.
A massive storm surrounded the massive fortress, shrouding it in heavy rain, lightning, and violet winds. From his spot, Arad could spot massive lightning rods that dwarfed the mountains on land, all of them drawing the lightning and directing it back to the fortress to be used as energy.
This was how the fortress recharged its energy reserves.
As they got closer, all of the cannons suddenly shifted and pointed at them, then they moved and aid elsewhere. Arad knew that if he were alone, they would’ve fired at him.
So of the cannon barrels were over a kiloter wide, making even Arad’s draconic form seem like a fly staring down the barrel of a gun. To think such a structure is operated by a single drakaina, and to think it drifted across the sky without a single human noticing its existence.
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