Dragon King's Harem Chapter 4. Argod Escavia de Emperor XIII of Drais Empire"James ..." A fn male voice came. The voice sounded ge full of dignity.'Who ...'The voice came again. "James ... James ..."'Who's calling me ...'I opened my eyes slowly. The first sight I saw was a beautiful night sky. 'It's so beautiful ...'I turned my head from side to side and realized that I was lying in the middle of a dark meadow. I frowned in fusion. "Where am I?" I whispered. I tried to remember what had happeo me before I arrived at this strange pd remember how I died on my way to the hospital. My hand touched my body to exami and realized all the wounds on my body had disappeared without leaving any scar, as well as my clothes. There wasn't a single cloth on my body but strangely I didn't feel cold at all. I exhaled a long breath. 'Of course, I'm dead now ...'I stood up and looked around me in amazement, thousands of colourful small lights scattered like fireflies. 'Is this afterlife?' My hand stretched out slowly, trying to cate of them and the small light nded on my hand easily. My smile began to develop on my lips as I looked at them.The voice that called out my name came babsp;"James ..."I looked around once again, trying to find the in of the void did not find anyone. "Hey, show yourself!""Promise me you won't run," the voiswered me."I won't," I replied.A hard wind blew violently, messing up my hair and the meadow. The small lights around me disappeared from my sight. "Roaaaarrrr!" A loud majestic roar sounded from the sky.I raised my head, my eyes widened in shock mixed with disbelief. My jaw dropped in amazement. A huge bck dragon flew above me. Reflexively, I prepared to run or retaliate for whatever the dragon would do to me.'I thought dragons were just imaginary beasts in the game.' I remembered st week, I pyed a game with Larry and our st mission was to defeat a bck dragon. But the bck dragon in that game was nothing pared to the huge bck dragon that was flying around above me. That dragon was bigger than 2 rge ercial pnes. Rather than 'scales', the dragon's body was covered in strong bck armour. His sharp and strong looking cws made me sure that he could split me in half in just one move. The tail looked like a ly arranged colle of sharp thorns. His huge wings with sharp thorns at the tips of the bones spread out majestically. His blue eyes glinted among the stars in the sky, two bck horns on top of his head aween them were sharp spikes that formed like a as if to signifying that he was not an ordinary dragon.- Whooosssh!The dragon waved his huge wings and slowly desded near me. I raised my hand to protect my eyes from the strong winds that hit me and staggered backwards a few steps due to that gust of wind. But as the dragon nded, his feet were repced by a pair of human legs, his huge 'dragon's body was repced by a man's well-built body with eight packs abs. That dragon had a muscur body but not over, but one for sure, just from his aura alone, I khat dragon was a very strong fighter. The dragon head was repced by a man's handsome cold fa his 20s. His bck hair covered his neck, a pair of elf-like ears appeared between them and two bck horns above his head. His blue pupils formed vertical slits just like a feline glinted in the dark. His two bck wings shrank to his size and disappeared when he folded them. Instead, a pair on wing tattoos appeared on his back. Aattoo in the shape of a king's was on the side of his neck. His tail was repced by a bck tail which looked less terrifying than before. And just like me, not a single piece of clothing covered him.The dragon walked towards me. While I stared at him with caution. "Who are you?" I asked suspiciously.He stopped two meters in front of me. "I've been waiting for you, James Frozenlight.""Answer me! Who are you? How do you know my name?" I asked once again.He politely nodded his head. "I am Argod Escavia de Emperor XIII. The king of the Drais Empire." Then he looked at me. "As I said before, I've been waiting for you, because you are the only person who has the same soul resonance as me."“Drais Empire? Soul resonance? What's nonsense is that?” I frowned and stared at him in suspiixed with disbelief since I had never heard anything he said before.He smiled. " I know you're fused. But I need your help to take over my position as king in the Drais Empire."I chuckled in disbelief. "Are you crazy or something? I'm dead! How I be king?" Then I realized Argod's dition should be the same as mine since we were ierlife pbsp;"Wait --- we are dead. Is Drais the empire in this afterlife world?" I made a wild guess."No, Drais is the stro empire in Igixar with the royal dragon lineage as its king. It is in a world that is different from your world, and this world," Argod expined."Wait, wait, wait." Argod's expnation made me even more fused. "Are y to say I live again?" I asked in fusion."You are dead, but I am not. My current state is worse thah." Argod lifted his head to the sky, feeling a gentle breeze on his face. His sadness was clearly visible on his fabsp;"This pce isn't an afterlife. This is a pce between life ah. And I'm trapped here ..."An awkward chuckle ing out of my mouth "Are you kidding me? If you are trapped here doesn't that mean I'm the same as you?"Argod returned his gaze to me. This time he looked at me with a serious gaze. "I was trapped but you weren't. That's why I asked you to repce me to lead Drais. After all, this pce will be my st battlefield.""Last battlefield?" I said in fusion. I swept my gaze arourying to find out who he was fighting with but there was nothing there except the two of us. It was so quiet, there weren't any sounds of animals or is here. "There's no one here."Argod raised his hand and poi the bck clouds mixed with fiery red fre in the sky as if it were a rge volo floating in the air. "I fought with that thing."I turned around and stared at the terrifying clouds heading toward us. Everything uhe cloud suddenly turned bd died."What's that?" My eyes locked on that strange cloud. The cloud was still far from us, but I k was dangerous.Argod walked over to me and stopped beside me. His eyes fixed on the cloud were filled with anger. "It's the curse that the Dark Lave to the royal dragon lineage." He turned his gaze on me. "That curse will eat up a royal dragon's body and sciousness slowly. If it does not succeed in taking over its host's body, it will move to our offspring and every time it moves, the curse will bee stronger. Sooner or ter it will turn us into a new Dark Lord. "I frowned as I turod. Even though I was still fused, I started to uand. "Then, does it mean I am in you?" I guessed."Yes. This pce is inside my body, my sciousness. I've been fighting that curse for my whole life and I'm within my limits. Even if I ehis, my future son won't be able to withstand this curse. That's why I decided to finish everything aroy that curse forever, "said Argod."You mean ..." I stopped my words since I didn't want to say my bad guess. But frod's words, I knew what would happe and the reason why Argod summoned me here. Argod was intending to sacrifice himself to destroy the curse arust his unfinished duty to me. That's why Argod asked me to repce him as king.Argod firmed my unspeakable words with a bitter smile. “James Frozenlight, I know you don't know me. But I've been watg you for a long time.” He held out his hand to me. "Help me. Repce me to finish my duty as a king."I g the hand in front of me briefly before returning my gaze tod. "Are you sure to entrust this to me? You already know my professiht?" I didn't mind this, since I knew Argod had no other choice. But being a king was a big responsibility for a prostitute like me. Moreover, I didn't know anything about Igixar.Argod smiled. "Trust me, I will rust my empire carelessly. Besides, I know you are suitable for this duty."I sighed and nodded my head repeatedly. "Fine. Just don't bme me if I made some mistakes." I tood's hand, indig I agreed."I know you do it," said Argod with a gentle smile. In an instant, our hands shone brightly as Argod's memories poured into my head and made my head feel full and heavy!"Ghhhh!" I gritted my teeth out of pain. My eyes closed tightly and my sweat was dripping.As the seds passed, the pain was getting worse. I felt my head about to explode! Then Argod spoke. "From now on, you are not James Frozenlight, but Argod Escavia de Emperor XIII. The king of Drais Empire."Argod stretched out his other hand and a bck portal formed behihen he released my hand."Wait! How I trol my power?!" I shouted, but the portal sucked me in like a vacuum er."Do you remember the game you pyed st time? You trol it the same way, with your mind. Good luck, James Frozenlight ..." he said. After those words, my sciousness disappeared.Argod turned around, his gaze fixed on the dark cloud as the portal behind him closed. "Noill end our long fight."The tattoo on his back disappeared as his wings spread out. Likewise with the tattoo on his neck which began to fade as his form turned into a bck dragon. "Roaaarrrr!" He flicked his wings, creating a huge wih him. There was only ohing he could do to end the curse that had made his family suffer. He had to destroy it with his life essence. In other words, his soul would be destroyed along with that curse.Although he had wao do this a long time ago, he realized that his status as a royal dragon was important. He was Igixar's protector and his lineage must not be broken! If Igixar's protector disappeared then the war between tribes would ain, just like what happeens of thousands of years ago. The great war destroyed so many tribes and almost made some of them extinct. Even though many of the tribes fot about this, he, as a dragon king, didn't. That memory would be passed down to every royal dragon to remind them of their duties.Meanwhile, with the curse getting worse, he khat sooner or ter the royal dragon lineage would bee a new vessel for the Dark Lord that his family had defeated tens of thousands of years ago. That's why he decided to sacrifice his life to end the curse and summon another soul to take over his body to tinue all his duties and especially tinue his lineage.Bravely, Argod lunged into the bck cloud as he mustered all of his power. A huge explosion shook the sky and ground in that unfamiliar pce. Slowly, the bck clouds disappeared and the darkurned bright, like the m sunlight repg the dark night. Argod flicked his wings in the mid-air as the light shone on his body which slowly turned into shards of dust. This was the first time he could feel warmth in this pbsp;'James ... I'll leave everything to you...' Then his body disappeared.