Chapter 2230: Give Him My All
Arad, who had just finished turning Capsella into a Vampire Lord, was now standing at the meeting table. He had sensed the half-breed trying to establish her dominance over the wind in his inner world and teleported to her immediately.
He didn’t even look down at her, and she didn’t dare move an inch. She knew that one wrong move and he’d tear her apart. You don’t just stroll in and try to control what a dragon owns.
Zephyr smiled. "Do you like her?" She looked at him, and only Arad’s eyes moved to look at her. "Zephyr, you should’ve told me about her beforehand. At least before she tried to spread her control everywhere."
He then looked down at the half-Breed. "What’s your name?" She flinched the moment his gaze fell on her, feeling as if she was about to be crushed by his sheer presence.
"I... go by Sherion now. Queen Zephyr took my spirit soul and shoved it into a djinn body, granting me the power of both races." She gulped and looked up at Arad’s face. When her eyes met his, she pissed herself as she felt him glaring directly at her soul.
She had gotten high on the wish powers that she got from this new djinn body and had thought that she could even stand toe-to-toe with spirit queens. But Arad was on a whole different scale.
Spirit magic doesn’t work on him, and wishes are just as useless, especially from a djinn as weak as her. The universe itself clearly told her that she cannot wish him out, and that was when the memories of when she died came back to her.
In Aella’s crowning, she realized that Arad was AO, and the universe itself killed her for knowing too much. But now that she was stronger and could know without dying, she was left with only one wish.
She wished that she had never known and had lived as a mere spirit in ignorance forever. If Arad could control the djinn’s wishes, he would easily break all of the universe’s laws.
"Sherion..." Arad’s face shifted back into his regular, stoic stare. "Do you know why I’m angry?"
She was already shaking. "Because I tried to use my djinn powers to take the throne of a queen?"
"I’ll give you a second chance to figure it out. Get it wrong, and I’ll rip your ears off." Hearing that, she looked back at Zephyr with a horrified face. "It’s your fault for doing something without telling me. Figure it out on your own. He has a very good reason to be angry."
Sherion knew that was done for. "Because... I tried to take something you own?"
Arad sighed, grabbed her by the ears, and ripped them off. She didn’t scream, didn’t move, just stood there with a pained face and tears flowing down her cheek. "I’ll tell you."
"All of the wind spirits that Zephyr sent to live in my inner world called for help. A djinn has ripped them out of Zephyr’s domain without their consent. You were a spirit before, so I’m sure you know and understand how personal and precious that link between a fae and their queen is. You have violated them all, and for that, you have to answer to them directly."
"Yes... I understand." She was already shaking, so Arad sighed. "There are 1256 wind spirits currently working in my inner world. Go there, restore their links with Zephyr, and get their forgiveness." He lifted his hand, put it on her head, and teleported her into his inner world.
Zephyr looked at him with a smile. "Weren’t you a bit too harsh on her? She didn’t know what she was doing."
"She was a spirit before, and she should have known. In fact." He squatted down and stared at Zephyr. "Why didn’t you stop her?"
Zephyr smiled. "She needed the lesson, and so did the spirits living in the inner world. If they had their bond protected as I instructed, her djinn wish wouldn’t have managed to hurt them." She stretched her arms. "Now, those fairies would keep their guard up against djinn interference." She threw a glance at Arad.
"Father, Focalor the Sultan of the Evil Wind Djinns, wants me to bond with you. He doesn’t care if it’s marriage, slavery, a spirit contract, or just a relationship of benefits. As long as a stable link can be forged." She smiled. "He even said that you can come visit the Elemental Plane of Wind whenever you wants."
She clapped her hands. "Everyone, leave. Only the spirit Queens shall remain." As all of the spirits left, Arad jumped down from the table, summoned a chair, shrank, and sat beside the Spirit Queens.
Zephyr stood, jumped on the table, and stripped. What Arad could see on her body was astounding. While she still looked normal, her aura was anything but normal. She had Spirit magic, Divine magic, Curse magic, Eldritch magic, and Djinn’s powers all burning across her body at a level that far surpassed all the other spirits.
She had more spirit magic than all of the present spirit queens combined. Her divine magic was twice that of Eris, and Curse magic she had could only be compared to the devil lords of the lower layers of hell.
But it was the last two that surprised Arad. Zephyr had as much eldritch magic as Damnation had at her peak, and she could easily keep that level of power hidden and contained. Then there was the djinn power, which Arad’s only reference could be Sherion, who was here moments ago... Zephyr had over ten thousand more power than her. Which was expected, as she was a princess, the daughter of a djinn Sultan.
But after just a few seconds, all of that power faded away as if it never existed, and Zephyr gasped for air, sweating like a pig. Forcing all of her powers to come out at once was taxing since most of them refused to coexist.
She looked at him and smiled. "What do you think of all of that? Disgusting, isn’t it?"
Arad smiled as he stood. "No, I like it." His body simmered a bit, and then his aura started changing. He started emitting all of the spirit magic of the other Spirit Queens out, then a horrifying output of divine magic pulled strait from Kali, all of that followed by Doma’s curses which eclipsed what Zephyr showed, and then came the parts that truly shocked Zephyr.
Arad’s eldritch magic far outclassed anything she had seen in her life as he let his own output out, followed by Merlin, the ten Nyar avatars, and all of the abominations he had inside him leak out all at once. That was a level of eldritch magic that would even give Amaterasu a scare if he surprised her with it.
Then was the part that made Zephyr freeze. Arad’s had Djinn powers, and they rivaled her father’s power. She easily recognized them as belonging the Sultan of the Elemental Plane of Fire, the Flame Goddess Kossuth.
If she and Arad fought now, who would win? Even she couldn’t tell anymore. "Hold up! How can use Kossuth’s djinn magic?" As Zephyr gasped, Arad waved his hand and Kossuth appeared by his side.
"Why won’t you ask her directly?"
"The... Fire Elemental Sultan? You know what it means to let Arad use your power?’ As Zephyr growled, Kossuth smiled. "Why should I care? If he wants to burn the universe down, I’ll happily start the first flame." She leaned on Arad. "I formed a contract with him like the one you have with Aella. But unlike yours, I gave him full ownership of myself and all of my powers."
"No, you can’t just do that!" Zephyr sighed in frustration, and Kossuth giggled. "I don’t know about you, and I don’t care what you or anyone else thinks or wants. I was always like this, and I’ll stay until I die."
She hugged Arad. "He is my husband now, and I’ll give him my all."