However he wasn't interested in her right now, as what was previously a prohibited place for him, covered under a veil of white and black fog was now clearly apparent in front of him; he could even make certain of what was there hidden from him before.

"So it's a written mantra?" he muttered, as he moved from his place, to feel his body change. "A dragon? I can see myself now as a dragon!!" this was a great surprise for him, and instead of moving forward to check the walls, he started to check his own body, even rotating around himself, driving a smile over the stern face of Stefanie. "Sigh, an idiot will always remain an idiot if he even becomes a dragon!"

James kept checking his new body, the one he never saw before, with a grin that never left his face for a long time. after he got satisfied, moves his tail and wings, examined his claws and scales, he turned to Stefanie as she said:

"Finally done playing big boy?"

"this body is really cool."

"Spare me this nonsense, you are barely called a dragon," she commented, putting her own remarks over his small sized body.

"Will I grow larger? That's cool!"

"You are hopeless!" she simply shook her head, before saying:

"Now you have don't something not achieved before and that would put more pressure over you. You are still weak, and the energy inside you isn't that stable yet. You need to go out there, eat and play with your girls, solidify your energy as much as you can."

He stopped flapping his wings trying to fly as he asked:

"They are also dragons, does that mean they can train like me?"

"No, they just took a portion of your energy, a small gift that's all. They can't be considered like you. All you need to do now is to raise your energy level and solidify it, and in turn they will also gain the same benefit."

He nodded as he asked:

"Should I train more?"

"All the time, lazy boy, you need to train your inner image all the time."

"Even if I'm sleeping?"

"…"

She preferred not to answer as the conversation already reached an unbearable level for her.

"Should I train now?" he asked.

"Just go out, I'm this close to killing you with my hands, OUT!"

The next moment he was expelled, returning to his real world. there he was sitting along while the other dragons were eating at a nearby hall, causing a ruckus of roars and chaos.

"They are really energetic," he muttered before observing his dragon body again. He marveled his body and considered it the most precious thing ever. The next moment he went towards the nearby ores, and started eating them.

This time he kept eating for days, reaching almost to a weak point. During this time, Rigo had already secured most of the big kingdoms, leaving only a dozen of them left, and this dozen proved to be a hard rock to crack.

They allied their forces together, in addition to that they spent most of their treasures on hiring mercenaries, causing the size of the army to reach a terrifying figure.

As for the seven forces coalition fleets, they sustained heavy damages on the course to here, making them like a huge wounded beast, very dangerous to deal with, and they had a very dangerous situation.

The main problem lied in their inability to even fortify the kingdoms conquered by them. The upgrade in the monsters' strength made it hard for them to leave only a small garrison at each kingdom, so they left a huge part behind only to deal with the monsters.

And now if they retreated, they would endanger everything they acquired so far. The portion they had from this deal made the seven forces quite greedy, not accepting the fact of losing what they gained, not resigning to retreat and let those dozen of large kingdoms without annexing.

And they had the excuse of punishment now, and if not dealt wisely and decisively with that, they might face a huge problem with their other followers later on.

It was such a deep mess that the only solution to it was to keep pushing forward even on the price of losing most of their fleets.

Defeat or retreat weren't an option here!

"We have to fight," one of the leaders said, in the presence of other leaders and Rigo. "Other than this we will lose everything gained so far and be the laughingstock of everyone."

"I have no objection to that, but shouldn't we ask for more reinforcements from home?" Rigo suggested, as the intel coming about the enemy wasn't optimistic at all.

"We can't send more troops here," another leader replied.

"Sure, but we can," Rigo said, before throwing off his offer, "I can summon double the size of our large army to arrive here in a week. However your cut in these kingdoms must be decreased to half, what do you think?"

They stuttered, surprised by his big hand. Double this fleet size meant ten thousand large cruisers, was Rigo, and James behind him, had such power already? That was fast and that was terrifying.

"Will that be enough?" one of the leaders asked while buying some time for his and others' superiors to give them their approval.

"Sure, with such an amount, no army can stand against us," Rigo reassured him. "What do you say?" he asked.

They remained silent for half an hour, then one by one announced their agreement. Rigo had already sent back home asking for reinforcements, and he planned to reduce their cut from this cake this time, making him gain much benefit for his leader.

The response he had was that James and the three girls were still inside, and so he had to give the order himself, arranging troops and summoning more to aid this new campaign.

He didn't want to spend so much money in buying new cruisers and troops, but he had to. He spent roughly a day before the meeting arranging everything, and it was luckily Islinda's last brilliant idea that made the treasure back home so full, could endure such extravagant spending.

In return, the leaders here were very happy with such an offer. Their current situation was very complicated, and without returning with a big victory, they would face many complaining questions and might get demoted.

Things went this way, as the growing empire of James kept expanding fast, amassing treasure in huge amounts, while Rigo kept waiting for the reinforcements to come, and James kept eating and strengthen himself with the ores and with the girls.

After two weeks, things were wrapped at the two sides at the same time. Rigo received his reinforcements a week after asking for it, making the fight turn much brutal, and the battles started to grow easier.

In a week they managed to control every single planet under the control of the dozen kingdoms, making this campaign end with a big pleasing victory to all partners.

After that, Rigo separated himself from the fleet, returning home after keeping part of it enough to secure these regions. As for James and the girls, they ate up all the stored ores so far, making them stop eating, and enter into a deep love session together.

After this long session, their energies stabilized much, and their dragon form receded to human form again. James had a clue or two about what was going on here, but he didn't explain much to them.

"You just got part of my strength, as my girls you should be grateful for having this blessing from me," that was the only explanation he gave to them after the persistence of the three to know what was going on.

For them, each one was seeing this from a different view. Islinda was the one feeling contented the most, as her personal strength gained such an imaginable leap. As for Dora, she was seeing this as a way to use in battles, especially ground one, against those annoying monsters.

Luna wasn't that acceptable to that form, as she felt it made her alluring sexy body lose its biggest weapon, attractiveness!

Despite the difference in their opinions, no one ever complained or praised this. Instead, they just glanced at each other, feeling more competition rising up, not only from them, but from the other girls James had under his harem.

Those girls who came from the seven forces were such a nightmare. These girls wouldn't stop at any lengths to reach James and try to seize him away from the three of them.

They knew they couldn't stop James from doing what he liked, especially if that meant for him to gain more dragon girls by his side, however they also knew they control and limit that.

Using the godly ore was the only means they had to do this. Any girl had to swear allegiance to one of them if she wanted to stabilize her energy like they did.