Chapter 1042: Locked In The Bath I
"The chairman…" Selina couldn't be more disappointed. But she couldn't lie to herself, she also was interested in seeing how that muscle monster Arad looked. "What is she doing there?"
"I don't know…but if you want to join the bath you must hurry." She turned around, "Please follow me."
She took them back to Hati's home where they found the house being strangely silent. The sound of Mira's hammering steel in the workshop had long since stopped and not a single cry of pain could be heard from Merlin's room. Hati's daughter was right, everyone must be holed up inside Hati's massive bath.
Lucia gulped down, she was a vampire and Arad was the one who turned her. She had felt a painful rush of power surge across her body this morning and she was certain it was because he had gotten several times stronger. For some reason, she couldn't shake the thought that the reason they were called to join his bath was because of that.
"You four finally came." Hati approached them, "Please take her into the bath with you as well." She pointed back at a woman who looked in her late twenties with short black hair and glowing honey-colored eyes.
"Who is she?" Matilda asked and Hati smiled, "One of Arad's friends, call her Zul."
Hati indeed had an ulterior reason for packing Arad and everyone else inside the bath, the war outside the world was getting a bit unstable and some abomination had indeed slipped out into the world. With all of the strongest gods fighting at the frontlines, none of them was left to stand guard and protect Arad and those close to him.
For that reason, Hati packed him and everyone else inside her bath and asked Kali to stay in her true form just in case.
One of Hati's secrets was her bath, not many people knew that it wasn't a part of her house but a room from the legendary Infinite maze of the overgod. She had taken one of the maze's rooms and attacked it to her house with a gate and turned it into a bath. Once Arad and the girls are inside she'll lock it, effectively cutting them from the outside world.
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Inside the bath, Arad sighed, "Why is everyone here?" For a moment he wished this would be a simple bath with just him and his wives where he could have some special time with them, now he has to worry about every other woman around him.
"Why do you look worried." Betty shouted as she sat naked on Arad's shoulder, "Are you getting shy?"
"Aella…" Arad waved hand and Aella snatched Betty from his shoulder, "Stop acting like this!" But before Aella could finish her sentence Betty was already standing between Arad's legs, "She can't get me here." Only for Merida to kick her back.
"What a strange place." Lala looked around, unlike everyone else she wasn't fooled. She could sense that her link with Amaterasu and Gracie had been severed, "Something big must be going outside." She licked her lips, "But I won't mind being locked up here with you."
"If you want my wives to kick you just say it." Arad walked to the shower room.
"Come on, no need to play hard to get." She waved her hand at him, "But seriously, care if we talked privately for a bit?"
"Privately?" Lunara looked at Eris, "Did you hear what that succubus said?"
"Fine…" Arad pointed to the sauna, "We'll talk there."
"ERIS!" Lunara cried, "Go stop him! He feels for her charm."
Strangely enough, everyone seemed to be fine with the two of them going alone there, the only one who asked to join was Sena.
"Are you all sure of this?" Kory looked at her mother, "You won't stop those two?" She looked at Arad's wives.
"Arad has the power to smack that succubus away," Gamond replied with a nonchalant face, getting into the shower.
"If Eris and Sara trust her, we don't mind it at all. She must have a reason." Aella added as she looked at Kory, "Calm down, everyone here won't dare land a hand on Arad."
Inside the sauna Arad, Lala, and Sena sat there looking at each other. "I'll start from the end, we're severed from the outside world." Lala looked at Arad with a serious face. "Hati must be up to something, and I'm worried it's nothing good."
"I too noticed it. The moment we all walked inside she locked up here. We can't even get out." Arad seemed worried about it as well. He had never seen such magic before. Even Vorvadoss's space magic can't get him out of here.
"That's why I came here with you two." Sena looked at Arad, "I can't tell you why, but Hati has her reason."
If Sena told Arad that Hati is protecting him and everyone else from the abominations he would want to get out and fight those abominations. But he shouldn't do that, the outside world would get burned to ash.
With Arad and everyone here in one place, the gods can copy their life signal and broadcast it in another location, setting a trap for the abominations. Sena was certain that Arad's mother was there waiting for them.
Arad looked at Sena for a moment and she giggled, "Do you like my chest?" She squeezed her breasts.
"Fine, I'll trust you for now." He scratched his head, "And no, I don't like them if they don't have milk."
A large grin crossed Sena's face as milk poured out of her nipple, "Bet?" She could modify her body at will so such a thing wasn't hard to do.
Arad ignored her and walked out of the sauna.
"How cold…" Sena looked a bit sad only for Lala to growl, "Princess, what the hell are you doing? Do you want Gracie to skin me alive?"
Sena looked at her, "Sit."
Lala immediately sat on the ground with a scared face as Sena looked at her with an evil smile. "For a servant, you too seem quite lax around Arad. Forget stepmother skinning you, I'll do it myself."
"Your Highness, mercy please." Lala was shaking but Sena burst laughing.
"Come on, did I scare you?" She helped her stand up. "I'll never harm you, aunty." When Sena was training under her stepmother Gracie Lala was a simple maid working in Gracie's castle at the time.
Sena used to have Lala bring snacks for her during training, help her skip classes and even train with her.
Lala looked at Sena with a still terrified face but a relieved smile crossed her face. "You are the overgod's daughter after all…I'm nothing more than a mere servant."
Sena giggled, "Your job was to clean the floors in the morning and kneel before Gracie in the evening to worship her."
"Indeed, but when you came to train my job shifted to standing by your side." Lala smiled, "I hope today ends well."
"Don't worry, me and Kali are here. Even if you can't trust my power, Kali is a whole other matter. She is on the same level as Amaterasu." Sena walked out with Lala and they saw Kali relaxing in the hot tub, stretching her muscular six-blue arms.
^Her Highness is right, the goddess of destruction is here with us, we've got nothing to fear. Even if Nyar himself were to show up, she'd wring him like a rag.^ Lala thought.