Having fully recovered from her training fight with Amaterasu, Eris returned to the private quarter for the day and dropped onto the living room's couch as a maid brought her sothing to drink.
"You're exhausted, aren't you?" Isdis approached her, and Eris smiled. "Well, I doubt I'm as exhausted as you are. All that paperwork must be driving you mad."
Eris sat beside her and ordered the maids to bring her so tea. "I'm getting a lot of help. Arad learns fast, Rey and Ray are as skilled as I, and Roberta is a goddess when it cos to finances."
"I can't imagine Arad working like that. Can he even hold a pen with those massive hands?" Eris smiled, and Isdis giggled. "He was awkward at the start, but he has already gotten used to it. In fact, he has better handwriting than I."
"Unlike , my handwriting looks like I'm writing with my feet, chicken scribbles." Eris leaned back, "I bet even kids can write better than I do." She then threw a glance at Isdis, "Do you know what shocked the most? I recently found out that so cultists were trying to predict the future by deciphering so holy scriptures. Turns out, it was my grocery list."
"It is that bad?" Isdis was taken aback and then scratched her head. "I'll give you a book or two to rewrite and practice. Try to at least make it clean." She then looked back, "And look who is back."
Arad walked into the living room and dropped onto the couch beside Eris. "I'm beaten. How are you two doing?" He took a deep breath, and they looked at him for a second.
"You look beaten up." Eris could sll the dead blood inside his veins, and he couldn't hide the fact that he was pretty hurt from her.
"Yeah, Kali gave quite the thrashing. Fighting her is one of the only few things that can push to my limits." He threw a smile as Eris, "Hopefully, you can do the sa in a few days." He could also sll that she was tired as well, having drained a lot of her divine power.
Unlike mortals, Eris was a goddess. Her body didn't produce any wastes, she didn't sweat, and her blood flowed golden with divine magic. She slled like incense, and no matter how battered she was, her body remained perfect.
In simple terms, while mortals have their health, stamina, and mana, all of which need their bodies' basic functions to persist, she didn't have them, only having divine magic. So cutting Eris or injuring her didn't make her bleed, but only drained her divine magic, which she uses to maintain her divine body.
Of course, strong gods can mimic life far better. But Eris is still a novice divine, even if she was getting trained by Amaterasu. Arad could still notice the shift in her power. "Don't exhaust yourself before the fight."
She giggled, crawling near him. "Well, the mortal is speaking like that to the goddess. Aren't you a cheeky one?" She leaned on his chest. "Do you think you can take down even if I am weakened?"
Arad smiled. "Well, what do you think? Can I defeat you?"
She sighed, "That's the point, no matter how I look at it. Defeating you won't be easy." Looking at his chest, she could hear his heart beating, see his blood flowing under his skin, and feel the tense hardness of his muscles. He felt like a really powerful spring, barely held at the breaking point. Just thinking about fighting him was enough to make her feel squeamish.
Isdis approached them and sat on Arad's lap. "Well, look at him. I don't know which of you two is scarier. A goddess of murder, or a dragon that can scare that goddess." She then threw a glance at one of the maids standing nearby. "What do you think?"
The maid looked at them for a second, then approached. "To , all of you are scary. One touch from you and I'll freeze into a statue of ice. I am nowhere near a regular trained man, let alone a divine goddess, or Lord Arad himself." She looked at Arad, "One finger alone is enough to kill a thousand of ."
Eris shrugged, "Fair enough, his thing is bigger than your forearm. You can't possibly match him even if he were a regular man." Indeed, even if Arad didn't have any powers, he would still be a twelve-foot-tall giant.
Isdis giggled. "But co on, one touch of won't freeze you."
The maid stared at her with a passive face, not believing a lick of that. "Yeah, one of the drakainas in Arad's world told us how you summoned a mountain-sized glacier of ice and could survive a fall from space."
That was also true, even if Isdis wasn't as powerful as the rest in Arad's harem, like Kali or Eris, she was still far stronger than anything that should exist in the mortal world, and with a single flick of her wrist, she could freeze the entire castle.
Arad threw a glance at Eris. "Isdis had been working, and I hear you were training with Amaterasu. How did that go?"
Eris smiled. "You won't believe . She brought an Avatar as powerful as , being powered by an equally sized and heavy sun, and I managed to win. I even murdered that Avatar."
Arad lifted an eyebrow. "Even if you two were equal, I can't imagine her going down easily."
He was right, and killing that Avatar was no easy feat for Eris. "I had to use my trump card to finish her off. I ca at the right ti. I have this one move that I could never test on anyone due to how deadly and dangerous it is."
"Dangerous in what kind? The kind where it can hurt you, or the fact that it is too destructive?" As Arad asked, Eris looked around, thought about it for a while, and then smiled. "It isn't harmful to , it is just… uncontrollable at my current divine power. It is probably sothing I shouldn't use until I fully master my divine powers."
Arad leaned back. "So… how destructive are we talking?"
"World-class disaster, while it should only affect one person, I can't seem to contain it." She looked a bit sad as she leaned on his chest. "It was the sa with my Elental Expansion at the start, uncontrollable, incomplete, and it wasn't sothing I could pull out in a closed room without killing both friends and foes."
Isdis smiled, "That is the cost of growing too strong, too fast. You rarely get to fully understand and master whatever power you have." She looked at her hands. "I can grow trendously stronger if I keep sharpening my cold magic, but even now, I find it hard to control Silver's bloodline." Frozen air started dripping from between her fingertips as she ran them over Arad's chest, and then pointed at the maid standing in the back.
"You are right to fear . My control is bad enough that if I wanted to make an ice cube with Silver's power, I would freeze an entire throne room. In a battle, that is good enough, but not in normal life." She then flicked her fingers, and Kory appeared out of nowhere. "Why did you call now?" She growled as Isdis had just pulled her out of training.
"It's been a while since I had so fun with Arad, so I was going to have him for a bit and though you would want to join." Hearing Isdis, Kory's eyes sparked. "Should've said that from the start!"
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