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All this time Aria stayed silent until she saw that Alice started gathering her attribute to replicate what Lilia did a moment ago, it took her a moment before she decided to ask what was on her mind.

"Do you know the process to cultivate the soul? now that I have awakened my ice attribute… my manual shows a new section for soul cultivating".

Lilia more or less expected that, although she could deduce that Aria's manual was a high level one, she could not see it's secrets since she didn't have the same constitution as her.

She put on a comforting smile.

"Don't worry, although I'm not a soul cultivator one of my old friends is one so I know the basics of it, for them on the mortal division there is only one process "mind insight", similar to the way your soul idol is created you need to meditate while remembering everything you have experienced, according to my friend the trick is focus on both your best and worst memories and once you came to a conclusion with them you will reach the "spirit opening" realm".

Aster hugged Aria, "what kind of masochist invented this way of cultivating he thought", although it sounded easier than body cultivation, having to revive and afront your worst moments was something really hard, especially for those who have suffered gone through a lot like Aria.

Aria smiled feeling Aster worry for her.

"I will be fine, all the things my family made me go through were what allowed me to meet you that day at the inn so I already know that I have a good ending for that episode of my life ".

Lilia completely agreed with her.

"She is right darling, in fact I bet she will recover the years she lost only cultivating on the energy path thanks to that, reaching the spirit opening is not a matter of time but of character growth so if my supposition is correct Aria will be able to achieve it in approximately one year".

Aster sighed, "I wonder if Aylin might be able to help Aria on soul cultivation… she had that calm and relaxed aura around her after all", he thought before saying.

"Fine… just be careful".

After excused himself before leaving the training room while Lilia stayed to supervise Alice and Aria on their first session of body and soul cultivation, Aster returned to Lilia's room or more accurately "their" room since now they will be sleeping together every night.

The reason as to why he left the training room was that he needed to do two things, the top priority was to create Lilia's ring, originally, he wanted to give it to he before crossing the last line but just as the say goes: man proposes, God disposes and the devil decomposes… he didn't have the chance to work on the ring before he had sex with her.

"This is also a good chance to test out Rigel's flame", he thought.

Of course, he wasn't stupid enough to use the black star ore he got on the auction to test his flame so instead he took out one of the swords he bought on the Kraft family weapon shop, he held it with his left hand while summoning a tiny hand sized portion of Rigel's flame on his right hand.

Unfortunately, when the flame touched the sword, this suddenly cracked before breaking into little crystals.

This repeated a couple of times until Aster found the proper amount of flame to use on the sword without breaking it, he practically reduced the size of the flame to a quarter of what he originally was using, the biggest difference was that the instead of freezing the sword the metal became easier to manipulate as if it was some kind of fluid but without losing the shape of the sword.

The best comparison Aster could think of was a certain robot villain from the future which appeared on the second chapter of a movie series, it was weird, wherever the flame passed the metal of the sword adopted that unique state only to lose it after he separated the sword from it, after moving the flame around the sword, it became unrecognizable with some spirals and other weird curves on the edge.

He took out another sword and put it on the ground in front of him, while using the same intensity of flames but on a larger scale, this time the flame was big enough to cover the whole sword, he started moving his hands as if he was drawing on the air and the previously destroyed sword recovered its original shape which he recreated using another sword as the model.

"How convenient, I didn't need to het the metal or anything it just became easy to mold, it makes sense that Rigel is called the star of creation… I can't imagine how useful this flame will be for a blacksmith or an alchemist", now that he more or less understood how to use the flame he only needed to find the correct amount of intensity to process the black star iron.

But first he tried molding the metal of the sword to take the form of a ring, it was hard because he was controlling the metal by making movements with his hands, he found an especial difficulty on making the little details because the metal distorted way easily.

After failing a couple of times, he dispelled the flame, the metal was unrecognizable and it also looked worn out as if it had been eroded by the pass of the years.

"Damn… this flame is really hard to control", he threw the metal that was not suited to be used anymore but before he could take out another sword to keep on trying, but this time he tried a different thing, instead of just keeping the flame still he created little wisps of flam on the tip of his fingers.

This new method seemed to work better in fact Aster noticed that focusing the flame in small quantities made it easier for him to manipulate the metal, after a couple of minutes of concentration he was able to finish the model.

Feeling satisfied of the result he took out the piece of black star iron and started working to imitate the model, once the main body of the ring was finished, he took out a red gem called fire ruby and placed it in the middle part of the ring.

He noticed that if he wanted, he could have changed the form of the fem just like he did with metal but since he only already fused the gem on the metal, he didn't dare to change anything else.

In front of him it was the result of the best he could do right now with Rigel's flame, a ring made out of black metal decorated with a red gem.

Aster nodded.

"Pretty good if you ask men, I wonder what would that Kray guy expression would be if he knew I used the black star iron to create a ring hahaha".

The sooner the better was one of the best ways to act so based on that he immediately decoded to give Lilia the ring but when he was about to leave the room, he noticed his communication talisman glowing.

"Mm?", for a moment he thought that maybe something urgent happened since he saw Kail's mark on the talisman but then he remembered that it was time for Kail's report.

As expected, it was a message from Kail, apparently after the ruckus he created on Ghaleria the day of the auction the Rein family basically ran away from this planet because they were afraid of the possible retaliation that might come thanks to Kray's actions, so now the one in charge of everything regarding the Rein family was Kail.

The Rein family patriarch ordered all of them to remain low until the day of the secret realm exploration in Zartia comes in three years, even the Wolfstein were afraid of getting involved so Isaac washed his hands off the whole situation and isolated himself for "closed door" cultivation.

Speaking of the exploration, Kail gathered some rumors about it and apparently the Rein family invited some "guests" to come with them but he couldn't find any other information about them since only his father stablished contact, the other important notice was that Kray will be grounded for a long time to "reflect" on his actions so he won't be attending Arthur's birthday ceremony.

Aster was amused by the results of his actions.

"Originally my idea was to scare them away on uncle Arthur's birthday ceremony but it seems like they won't be going anyway hahaha".

According to Kail's report, out of all the big forces that planned to attend Arthur's birthday be it to court Aria or some other reason, only a few decided to come due to the recent horror the Rein family suffered.

On the other hand, both the Kraft and Asher family did not abandon the planet, Wieland Kraft publicly declared that he had some interactions with the "golden reaper" and there wasn't any bad blood between their families and him so there was nothing they should be afraid of.

Aster smiled remembering the good impression Wieland left in him.

"Those who owe nothing fear nothing, huh? That old man from the auction house surely is quite smart, by saying that the Kraft and the Asher will flourish for the following years while the Rein family needs to keep a low profile and Isaac just plays dumb".

"I can't wait for the ceremony of tomorrow".

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The rest of the day went by quite fast, both Alice and Aria were quite tired due to their first experience cultivating body and soul respectively so they fell asleep quite fast, as for Lilia she happily cuddled with Aster after he gave her the ring he created.

Since there wasn't going to be any night activities Aster spent the whole night in the mind space practicing a new trick, he planned to use on Arthur's birthday ceremony in case the situation required him to do so.

Before he realized it was already morning, the first one to wake up was Alice and since she noticed that her mother was still sleeping, she helped herself to take the first kiss of the day.

"Mmm "

Aster opened his eyes feeling the soft pair of lips of his sister pressing against his, he internally smiled.

"Looks like she took my request quite serious huh?", yesterday he told the girls to wake him up with a kiss every morning and this time the winner was Alice since she woke up before Aria or Lilia.

Alice was all smiles right now.

"Good morning ", she said

Aster returned the kiss before saying.

"Good morning sis, did you set some kind of alarm or something? You are usually the last to wake up hahaha".

Their little conversation woke Lilia up and she saw his daughter already flirting with Aster which made her feel a bit jealous.

"Good morning darling, come give mommy some love ".

Aster shook his head, "come on is too early to be competing between each other", he thought but he still gave Lilia a morning kiss, the last one to wake up was Aria, it seems like soul cultivation is quite tiring which is understandable considering that mental fatigue is harder to get rid of than the physical one.

Lilia carefully examined both Alice and Aria just to make sure they weren't suffering any side effect or deviation it's better to be safe than sorry after all.

Lilia nodded, she took out a pair of pill bottles from her storage ring and handed one to each of them.

"Alice your body is quite sturdy so I don't see any negative effects, I'm giving you this "flesh nurturing" pill, you only need to take one per month and it will help you to have a smooth progress on body cultivation until you reach the body solidification realm".

"Aria… you don't show any sign of suffering deviation but is normal to be mentally fatigued and suffer from slight headache due to the tension soul cultivation put in your mind on the first stages, this "mind cleansing" pill will immediately cure all that, the effect is quite long lasting so one per month should be enough too".

Both of them took their respective pills and they all stood up from the bed, since Arthur's birthday ceremony started midday, they took a quick bath before Lilia transported them to Ghaleria to take breakfast on the fragrant pavilion.

When the waiter went to get their order, they heard someone knocking on the door of the room.

Aster opened the door and the one outside was Eric Asher who had his usual smiling expression, behind him the old man Egil was standing with a somewhat defeated expression.

"Yo, my friend I saw you entering the restaurant and I came to say hi, I hope you don't mind hahaha", said Eric.

Egil Asher sighed.

"Good morning little friend, please don't take it against my nephew he is a bit pushy when it comes to people, he finds interesting if you have some free time can you listen to what he has to say?".

Aster allowed them to enter the room.

"No problem come on in, we just recently ordered our food so it's going to take some time until the waiter deliver the dishes".

Eric entered without any doubts while Egil followed after.

Aster sat back in the middle of his girls while Eric and Egil took seat in front of them.

He noticed that Egil expression changed to a humble respectful one when he saw his mother so it was obvious that the old man could somehow feel that Lilia was stronger than him.

Eric smiled.

"Uncle Egil, told me it is a sign of goodwill to present first so I'm Eric Asher the youngest son Einar Asher the current patriarch of the Asher family".

Aster actually found Eric fit to be his friend, he was quite straightforward and his personality was likeable so he didn't mind getting along with him, but he still decided to test the waters.

"I didn't present myself before, my name is Aster Drage, the ladies at my side are my mother Lilia, my big sister Alice and one of my future wives Aria".

Eric laughed.

"Hahaha, now that I how a man should be surrounded by beauties, let me offer you a toast to commemorate this moment", said Eric while asking his uncle to take out a bottle of something called "monkey wine".

Egil sighed, "this stupid nephew always looking for an excuse to drink my precious wine… whatever my older brother will have to give more to make up for it", he thought.

Seeing his uncle pouring wine on cups he had on his spatial ring, Eric was happy.

"I will call you brother Aster from now on, this wine is made by a spirit beast called rock monkey, they gather a special kind of fruit and ferment it to make this wine which has cultivation enhancing properties, it is kind of hard to get since the pack leader of the rock monkeys is a beast on the middle stage of the star axys realm so I hope you like it".

Aster drank the wine in one go, it actually had a sweet taste as if it didn't contain ay alcohol and he immediately noticed the spirit energy entering his body at a slightly faster rate than before.

"Good wine", he said.

The girls also drank it while Egil heart was bleeding, while he didn't show it on his face this wine was his personal reserve, the Asher elders formed a team from time to time to raid the nest of the rock monkeys, half of the wine they managed to get was stored on the clan and the other half was divided among the ones that accepted the mission and the patriarch.

Eric nodded.

"That's good to hear, there is also other thing I wanted to tell you, the first time I met you I saw the young miss of the Ghale family with you and I noticed she was already your partner, my older brother is one of the guys that had a crush on her for a long time so I would like to ask you to… please at least spare his life if you fight with him later today, ah just to be clear I only knew you were related to that girl after I met you so that was not the reason to get close to you".

Aria suddenly connected the points.

"Wait you are the young brother of that brick head?", she asked in a surprised tone.

Eric found her reaction quite funny.

"Hahaha, yes Ebbe Asher is my brother".

Aria saw Aster frowned expression and she knew that he didn't show mercy for anyone who tried to force her into marriage before so she explained.

"Don't worry, that guy was the only one who actually kept his distance from me after I rejected him, in fact just like his young brother he is quite straight forward hahaha, I remember him asking my father to accept him as his son in law while presenting some spirit beasts as a present in the front door of the Ghale family grounds".

Eric bowed his head which made Egil surprised

"This brat who doesn't show respect for anything nor anyone is actually bowing his head… maybe the wine was too strong", he thought, until he heard Eric saying.

"My brother is a bit stubborn but he never tried anything malicious to have the attention of this bis sister, so I ask you to not be too severe in case he tries to propose again later".

At first Aster thought the Asher family was trying to wash their hands using Eric as a medium that is why he frowned his face before but considering how Aria explained the situation he was convinced that Eric's brother was not one of the guys in his list so he calmed down.

"I have never wielded my sword against anyone who didn't deserve it and considering how Aria explained that she wasn't pestered by your brother I don't hold any grudge against him so there is no need to worry about that… however why did you ask me to spare his life, your brother is probably older than me so he should be quite strong isn't he?".

Eric let out a sigh of relief, having gotten Aster's confirmation he returned to his usual relaxed self.

"Certainly, my brother is at the middle stage of the star formation realm which is not that bad considering he is seventeen years old but… how can he stand a chance against the "golden reaper".

Aster smiled without any intention to deny his affirmation.

"Oh, I'm quite interested on how did you know that?", he said.

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Egil almost choke with the wine he was drinking when he heard his nephew saying that the little boy in front of them was the "golden reaper", the day of the auction he was one of the spectators so he saw with his own eyes how Kurt Rein lost one of his arms just because a slight touch of those terrifying golden flames.

Like many others that were seeing the show he tried to simulate what would have happened if the attack was directed at him instead of the Rein family members and although he was at the peak stellar constellation realm, the best outcome he could imagine was him losing either an arm or a leg before running away for his life.

Eric nodded seeing that Aster didn't bother to hide the fact that his supposition was correct.

"To be honest I was half guessing, you see my body constitution is called "Barbarian King" body and it is a type of constitution that mainly focuses on body cultivation, you probably already know but there aren't any body cultivators on this planet… nah according to my older sister there aren't body cultivators in this sar cluster besides me"

"I'm not bragging but my constitution is a quite high ranked one so even when I met elders who were above the star tribulation realm, I didn't feel pressured by their body aura but when I first met you although I kept my cool on the surface… every cell in my body was screaming "Run", coincidentally when the "golden reaper" summoned those golden things I got the same feeling so I just connected the points".

Aster was surprised listening to Eric's explanation, because he seemed to know a lot more about cultivation than the average people of the Rodia star cluster and also, he didn't notice that Eric was a body cultivator, he turned to see his mother because she didn't say anything about that when they met.

Lilia just shrugged.

"He probably has something to hide his cultivation path, I haven't heard about his constitution but if it is truly mostly suited for body cultivation then he probably has a high sensibility towards danger, mm like an enhanced version of instincts".

Eric pointed one of the ornaments on his neck which seemed to be made out of the bones of a spirit beast.

"That lady is right, this is the legacy treasure of the Barbarian heart sect which was given to me due to my special constitution, since I'm only in the earth origin realm I'm not suited to travel in a spaceship yet so I have to stay in the azure sky planet until I reach the star formation realm and this treasure hides my cultivation path from the eyes of others in the meantime".

Egil felt his legs giving up, "just like that this stupid nephew of mine told basically every secret of our Asher family to someone he has just seen twice!!!!".

There was only one thing Aster didn't understand.

"I get the part about your brother and all that, but was it necessary to tell me al this, your uncle seems to be having a mental break down right now, you know?"

Eric laughed.

"What's the use of hiding all this when you are probably not a native of this star cluster, besides if you wanted to kill us, I have no doubts that both me and uncle Egil would have not been able to leave this place alive… since that lady over there gives off a stronger presence than the patriarch of the Barbarian heart sect", he said while pointing at Lilia.

Egil shook his head.

"You brat, why the hell didn't you tell me about all this before we came here?".

,m Eric shrugged

"Because then you would have not allowed me to come here if I told you right?".

Egil sighed, "I swear this stupid brat is going to cause my death someday", he thought.

To be honest Aster was indeed interested in the background of the Asher family now, considering they seemed to have some relation with another star cluster where there were probably mortal transcending realm cultivators but right now their food arrived, and in an hour, they needed to attend Arthur's birthday ceremony so his curiosity would have to wait at least until the party.

"How about we continue this conversation on the party later?", he said.

Eric nodded before standing up.

"Sounds good to me, see you in the party brother Aster".

He and Egil left the room and the waiter entered with their dishes, while they were eating Aster wanted to ask Lilia some things.

"Mom, have you ever heard about that Barbarian heart sect?".

Lilia shook her head.

"No, to be honest I only know about forces that have at least one peak transcending realm cultivator be it a Law integration or a Gate transcending one, I suppose the best cultivator on that sect must be an early-stage genesis manifestation cultivator, since that treasure, he was using was at most a middle stellar rank treasure".

Aster seemed to contemplate things for a moment.

"Are you completely sure of it?".

Lilia smiled.

"Immortal rank treasures are really rare darling, even if you know a master blacksmith, the materials needed to create one would need to be from at least a heavenly comprehension realm spirit beast and there would be an 80% chance that the creation fails, so stellar rank treasures tend to be the legacy among low and medium tier ranked forces".

Aster smiled.

"Well, that being the case I guess I already know our first stop once we leave the Rodia star cluster".

He has been thinking were will they go once he reaches the star formation realm on the future and the star cluster where the barbarian heart sect resided seemed to be a good starting point, not like he was going to join tat particular sect but there were probably other forces, so he will just look for one which rules didn't restrict his freedom.

Once they finished eating Aria guided them to the Ghale family grounds, there were some people waiting in line to enter while others were allowed to enter directly, the guards of course didn't dare to keep the young miss of their family waiting so their group entered directly.

Arthur personally came to welcome them.

"It's good to see you attending this old man's humble ceremony, for a moment I nearly had to cancel it due to some maniac nearly killing the first son of the Rein family patriarch on Ghaleria… luckily the administrator of the auction spoke on behalf of our city saying that the only ones that caused that were the Rein family".

"Pffft- hahaha", Aria and Alice couldn't hold their laughs back, which confused Arthur because it was quite a serious topic.

"I'm sorry dad but the "maniac" you are talking about is in front of you", said Aria while pointing at Aster.

Arthur's eyes widened but after a moment he just sighed.

"I guess I should have supposed it… whatever the auction house guards fixed the hole in the street so we didn't have to spend anything on that, and your little act made the Rein family afraid enough to practically leave this planet, although I heard that the youngest son of Kalas Rein stayed to act as the supervisor".

Remembering Kail's current status Aster smiled.

"Uncle Arthur I have a present for you, unfortunately I'm not going to give it to you on public but I bet it's going to be the best birthday gift you have ever gotten hahaha".

Arthur was immediately interested in his future son in law words.

"Oh, then come with me to my studio and let's see that present you mention".

Aster took out his communication talisman and said a few words before putting it back on his spatial ring, they went to Arthur's studio and waited a couple of minutes until they heard someone knocking on the door, Arthur opened the door and to his surprise in front of him the youngest son of the Rein family patriarch was standing outside.

"Come in", said Aster and Kail obeyed.

Once the door closed Kail immediately kneeled in front of Aster.

"Hi boss and young ladies".

Arthur's mind went blank seeing the scene that was developing in front of him.

Aster smiled before saying.

"From now and onwards you will also assist Aria's father, you must treat him with the same respect you show to me, of course keep all this in secret from other people eyes".

Kail bowed his head.

"Understood boss!!!".

Aster nodded, he turned to see Arthur before saying.

"This is my gift for you, all the resources available in this planet from the Rein family, happy birthday hahaha".

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Arthur was in awe.

"I'm too old for this kind of surprise, but I gladly accept it".

Aster nodded and Kail left the room, a guard from the Ghale family told Arthur that the last confirmed attendant just arrived so it was time for the party to start, even if it was his birthday as the host, he had to be present to greet all the representants of the families and forces that came today.

Arthur guided Aster and the girls to the main courtyard of the mansion where all the people were already accommodating on their seats, of course there were some free spots left at the right side of Arthur were normally the great elder Aria as his daughter and some other important people like the first elder would sit.

Aria did take her seat next to her father but when the first elder was about to sit, he felt his body going rigid, he turned his head and saw the kid that sent flying the guards on the main hall last time, still he tried to ignore Aster but then he heard Arthur saying.

"First elder, please take one of the free seats at my left side".

The first elder felt angry, the patriarch was taking the side of some outsider, traditionally the right side was reserved for the most important members of the family while the left side was for the honored guests, he might have not minded if it was the seat right next to Arthur but the old man Sebastian was occupying it so he was going to take the second seat at the left which he considered a humiliation to his status.

He wanted to explode but remembering what happened last time he calmed down before trying a different approach

"Patriarch… according to out tradition only the most important members of the family can sit on the right side, normally I wouldn't pay too much attention to it but this is a formal ceremony so…".

Before he could finish speaking Aster interrupted him.

"There is no need to worry about that, I will have a public "family" bond with Aria in a couple of minutes after all".

The first elder felt his blood pressure rising but he didn't have any other option but to swallow his complains while Aster sat next to Aria and he could only sit on the left side since Lilia and Alice took the other two free seats on the right side.

The first elder felt humiliated so he directed a poisonous gaze at Aster while thinking, "just wait brat, the Rein family might have almost retreated from this place but they sent a new elder of the stellar constellation realm, let's see you acting all high and mighty in front of him later humph".

Now that everyone had an assigned seat, Arthur stood up and used spirit energy to amplify his voice.

"I Arthur Ghale, humbly greet the distinguished people that had decided to pay a visit to my Ghale clan despite the recent chaotic situation we are in!!!", he said while stealing some gazes at Aster.

The first act of the party was that each representative presented their gifts for the host, this was a way to also present their families or forces to the other attendants, normally the one starting should be the Wolfstein family representative but since the incident with the "golden reaper" Isaac basically washed his hands of anything related to Ghaleria.

Surprisingly Wieland Kraft was attending the party as the representant of the Kraft family, and since he was the "strongest" cultivator present all the other guests tacitly accorded that he had the right to be the first one to speak.

So, the old man stood up to present his gift.

"The Kraft family wishes the Ghale patriarch a long and prosperous life, I hope this little present is to your liking", said the old man before a member from the Kraft family took some steps ahead and presented a little chest with some crystal bottles containing liquids from various colors.

Of course, Wieland explained the contents of the bottles so everyone could understand their value.

"This is a set of spirit elixirs with multiple purposes that are effective for anyone below the star axys realm, from healing to detoxifying and improving the absorption of spirit energy, the details of each elixir are written in the label of each bottle".

A guard from the Ghale family accepted the gift in Arthur's representation before placing it on top of a platform besides the table where the members of the Ghale family were sitting.

Arthur stood up.

"My Ghale family appreciates senior Wieland's consideration".

The rest of the guests took their turns to present their gifts, unlike what Aster had imagined Egil didn't spoke when it was the turn for the Asher family to speak, instead it was Eric who did it.

"Eric Asher wishes the Ghale patriarch a long and interesting life hahaha, please accept this bottle of monkey wine along with a toast from my Asher family".

Egil felt a headache coming his way while the members of the other families laughed, the young master of the Asher family was known for being quite "festive" so everyone expected more or less something like this to happen.

Even Arthur couldn't help but laugh, he rose his cup and accepted Eric's toast.

"It's a pleasure, I have heard some good rumors about the rare monkey wine from the Asher family so I'm glad that later I will be able to try it myself".

The same guard took the bottle and place it carefully next to the gift from the Kraft family.

Contrary to everyone's expectations the Rein family actually had a representative who attended the party and it was none other than one of Kalas Rein sons, although it was the youngest son it was still a big show of respect considering the situation the Rein family went through a couple of days ago.

Kail was thanking all the stars in the firmament that he had now access to the treasure of the Rein family, originally, he did bring a gift for Arthur since he knew about Aster's relationship with Aria but it was just a middle mysterious rank treasure to show some respect for his boss.

So, when Aster presented Arthur and told him to treat him as if it was his boss, he immediately ordered one of his personal guards to go and bring a better gift with the excuse of "not letting others despise the resources of our Rein family".

Kail stood up before taking out a large black case from his spatial ring which one of his guards took and opened it to show a black spear.

"Kail Rein wishes the Ghale patriarch a long and wealthy life, I heard you use a spear as your main weapon so I hope you like this present, the "Night Piercer" is a peak mysterious ranked spear".

At first the other representatives were in shock, sky rank treasures were really rare in the Rodia star cluster so every medium sized force at best had a peak mysterious rank treasure which were not cheap by any means, even the worst would have a price of 100,000 spirit stones, as for the spear presented by Kail the price was about 150,000 spirit stones so it was quite a generous gift.

But then all of the families remembered that the eldest son of Kalas Rein was obsessed with the young miss of the Ghale family so they thought that since Kray couldn't attend the party he sent this gift for her father as an apology, no one could have imagined that Kail was doing this to win Aster's favor, well no one except Aster of course.

"I'm pretty sure that wasn't the gift he was planning to give on the first place, but I guess this does will give uncle Arthur more presence on the Ghale family so I recognize it was a good idea", he thought.

The rest of the guests were members of low and medium ranked forces so their presents were not at the same level of the big four families although there were some interesting things like new kinds of ores or spirit herbs discovered in unexplored planetoids or little secret realms.

Once the presentations finished it was the moment for what everyone was waiting for, the tournament between the younger generation, of course everyone noticed that there were some unknown people sat at the right side of Arthur, they paid special attention to Aster since he was happily speaking with Aria, before when Aster spoke with the first elder, he did it in a low voice so no one paid attention to them earlier.

One of the representatives of a medium sized force decided to speak what was in everyone's mind.

"Excuse my curiosity, Ghale patriarch but could you please present the little friend sitting beside your daughter?".

Aster smiled before he stopped Arthur from presenting him, he stood up and directly looked at everyone before saying.

"My surname is Drage and… I'm Aria's boyfriend".

An uncomfortable silence fell into the whole courtyard until a lot of teenage boys stood from their seats, they all walked until they were in front of their respective forces, surprisingly there was even one from the Kraft family but the first one to say anything was one guy from the Asher family who looked a lot like Eric.

"I can't accept those words of yours without seeing ho strong you are, I Ebbe Asher from the Asher family ask for a friendly match to this young brother… do you accept?".

Aster saw Egil's exasperated expression and he knew that he probably already told the truth to Ebbe and he still asked for a fight which showed him how stubborn was Eric's older brother.

Aster turned to see Arthur before asking.

"Uncle Arthur you don't mind a little friendly tournament, do you?".

Arthur internally sighed, "when have you ever worried about my opinions you brat", he thought but he still nodded.

"As long as everyone agrees then I don't see any problem with the young generation learning from each other".

Wieland saw the youngster in front of him and he nodded.

"The Kraft family agrees".

Egil shook his head, "this pair of brothers are a headache", he thought.

"The Asher family agrees".

Kail of course couldn't go against Aster's proposition.

"The Rein family agrees".

And so, everyone gave some space for all the participants of the improvised tournament that was about to start.

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Once the guests distanced from the center of the courtyard, the members of the Asher family used their earth attribute to create a big platform so the participants of the tournament could go all out without damaging the floor, Aster and the others waited until the staff from the Ghale family reaccommodated the chairs at a safe distance to watch their fights without being affected by them.

By unanimous decision Wieland Kraft was selected as the person in charge of supervising the fights and interfering if necessary to avoid accidents.

Wieland stood next to the platform before announcing the rules.

"The combat will be a battle royal to not waste time, killing or causing lethal wounds is forbidden, also you are only allowed to use your weapon so one-time things like attack talismans are forbidden, defense talismans are allowed but using one will be the same as losing, in case anyone try to break the rules I will personally punish the perpetrator".

Also, there was medic team formed by members of all the forces which was in charge of administrating treatment in case of being necessary.

Everyone accepted the rules before getting on the platform, Aster kissed Aria's right cheek before following them, that little interaction made all the other participants attention focus on Aster.

Arthur internally sighed, in his eyes all this was pointless since Aster was able to hurt a stellar constellation cultivator, he gave his future "son in law" a look that meant "don't kill anyone".

What he didn't knew was that Aster was not going to use the manifestation of the paragon body since that would be the same as admitting he was the "golden reaper", on the other hand his battle reflexes were already at the stellar constellation level so he decided to take advantage of this fight to train using Rigel's flame for offensive.

The representants of the forces of course didn't miss the chance to make the tournament more interesting by betting on who they thought was going to be the last person standing on the platform, there were three favorites, Ebbe Asher from the Asher family, Ward Kraft from the Kraft family and surprisingly Kail Rein bet on the kid surnamed Drage.

In fact, each of those three took a corner of the platform while the other participants were dispersed on the left one, once all the participants were on the platform, Wieland shouted.

"The battle starts now!!!".

As if accorded beforehand some of the guys that previously saw Aster kissing Aria attacked him on different directions while shouting.

"Kid you are dead meat!!!".

But when they were about 10 meters away from Aster a wall of white-blue flames stopped them from advancing, the guy that was approaching from the left direction couldn't stop in time and his legs touched the flames.

"Ahhhhh!!!!".

A loud scream made everyone's attention to focus on what was happening on the east corner but before most of them could react they only saw someone flying off the platform, Wieland disappeared and caught the body while it was still in the air.

It was a participant from a commercial association who was in the middle stage of the earth origin realm, he didn't seem to have any wounds with the exception of the thin layer of ice covering his legs.

Wieland scanned the body of the participant and he was surprised, "just a couple of seconds of exposition to those weird flames and this kid's legs have… second degree burns due to cold!!!", he thought before calling the medic personal.

The representant of the force to which the participant belonged, a middle-aged man with a tiny moustache immediately stood up and rushed at Wieland's side.

"How is my son?", he shouted.

Wieland calmed down the man.

"The wounds are not permanent and his life is not in any danger so take him to the medic team and shut up".

The man doubted for a second but he only nodded and followed the medic team, back on the platform the other two that were a couple centimeters away from Rigel's flame felt chills running down their bodies, they tried to retreat but a voice coming from the other side of the wall of flames made them halt in their place.

"Come on don't tell me that was enough to scare you two, where did all that bravery of yours go?".

The flames parted and Aster appeared in front of those two, with a smiling expression on his face.

"Let me tell you a little secret, if I wanted to, I could have covered the whole platform with my flames hahaha".

Listening to Aster's words almost all the other participants felt the color disappearing from their faces, originally those three were not the only ones that accorded beforehand to attack Aster since he kissed Aria but now… the only thing in their minds was fear.

They surely say that it is easier to be brave in group so after doubting one of the participants shouted.

"E-everyone, he can't defeat us all at the same time, let's join hands to finish him off and then we can fight each other later!!!".

With the exception of Ebbe Asher and Ward Kraft the rest of them attacked Aster, some of them used long ranged attacks while others forgot their fear convincing themselves that in the worst-case scenario the flame wouldn't kill them.

Wieland shook his head, "that kid is not someone who can be beaten by numbers", he thought before saying.

"I wonder where did the Ghale patriarch found such a little monster as a future son in law?".

,m Arthur laughed.

"Hahaha, senior Wieland flatter me, unfortunately it was the kid who first approached my daughter and they instantly got along which resulted in they becoming close".

The other representants felt jealous of Arthur's luck, some of them had daughters and which father would not like to find a talented partner for them.

On the platform the things were heating or it would be more accurate to say they were freezing; Aster created a sphere of flames around him contrary to other people expectations the attacks whether contained an element attribute or not simply dissolved when they made contact with Rigel's flames, even the platform area below Aster's feet was being refined by the flames.

Seeing that long ranged attacks were not working the participants that were closer took out their weapons and swung them against Aster only to break midway while they touched the flames.

One of the participants finally couldn't hold his complains back.

"That flame is cheating, how can we fight if we can't even approach him".

Aster smiled before dispelling the flames, he rushed towards the guy that spoke and hit him on the stomach.

"Guuhhh!!!", the strong impact made the participant bent due to the pain.

"Do you perhaps expect your enemy to let you attack him? What kind of idiot are you, this flame is part of my power so why should I not use it against my enemies?".

Before the guy could say anything, Aster kicked him out of the platform.

"Get out of my sight loser and never approach Aria again unless you have a death wish!!!".

Aster turned to see the rest of the participants.

"So, is there anyone else who still wants to keep fighting, just to let you guys know but I'm no longer going to show any mercy so if you don't surrender by your own will then… I will kick your asses out of the platform myself".

A couple of seconds the other participants started leaving the platform, "what a joke it's not worth suffering for a woman's attention when the final winner won't be us anyway", is what they were thinking, after all if by some miracle they manage to beat that monster, they will still lose against Ebbe or Ward since they were the only two that were on the middle stage of the star formation realm.

Among the ones that left there were some members of the Kraft family who only entered the battle to avoid others ganging up against Ward so they were planning to forfeit once he didn't need their help anymore.

Ward Kraft walked until he was in front of Aster and gritted his teeth.

"Is that flame the only thing you can use, I'm proud of my skills with the sword, do you dare to face me with only your main weapon?".

Aster smiled before saying.

"You are only strong due to that flame of yours", is what you are thinking right hahaha, however I don't care, I don't need my flames to crush you".

He took out one of the swords he bought to train with annihilation which immediately made all the spectators to be amazed.

"This kid is either too strong or too arrogant", they thought.

After all the sword Aster was planning to use was only a low mysterious ranked sword without any spirit inscription, it was basically just a piece of metal shaped to be sharp and that was all.

Ward Kraft felt insulted.

"Fine by me, you can use that trash as your weapon just don't complain once you lose"., he shouted.

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Wieland was paying special attention to the fight that was about to start, Ward was the only son of the Kraft family's patriarch and since Wieland was the second strongest cultivator on the Kraft family, he was the object of admiration of practically all the younger generation on his family.

It was to the point were Ward called him "uncle" even if they were not from the same family branch.

Ward took out his own sword, since the kraft family was allied with the Asher family they were the ones with the biggest number of high ranked treasures and of course as the son of the patriarch he had a peak mysterious rank sword.

Ward smiled.

"This sword of mine is called "Vil", which means "Will", since you agreed to my terms and my cultivation is higher than yours then let's make it fair, just one attack… if I can't destroy that trash sword of yours with one attack then I lose", he said.

Aster shrugged.

"You should rename it".

"Huh?", Ward seemed confused.

"Why should I change the name of my sword?".

Aster smiled.

"Because it will be a bad omen when that sword breaks in a moment".

"Hahaha", Ebbe couldn't hold back his laugh, unlike Ward even if he liked Aria, since she already found a partner the only reason as to why he wanted to fight was to see how far ahead was the "man" chosen by her from him, of course originally, he was sad and a bit angry but then his little brother told him the truth about Aster and his point of view changed.

When someone is way stronger than you then jealousy changes to admiration and that's how Ebbe was feeling right now, "a kid who is at least 8 years younger than me and yet he is able to hurt a stellar constellation elder, how can I not want to have a spar against such an incredible person", is what he said to Eric after knowing that Aster was the "golden reaper".

Ward felt humiliated first a little kid whose face no one has seen before suddenly declared that he was the boyfriend of the girl almost every male from the young generation dreamt with, then the kid even mocked him not only once but twice and now even Ebbe Asher his rival was laughing at him.

He turned to see Ebbe before shouting.

"Shut up you stupid boar".

Ebbe shrugged.

"I might be stupid but I can accept my defeat as a man, unlike certain dog loser hahaha".

Ward gritted his teeth; he pointed his sword at Aster.

"Let's finish this nonsense at once, be careful I'm no longer in a good mood to act friendly".

Seeing that Ward already took his battle instance, Aster suddenly flashed, the speed of his movement was enough to raise a curtain of dust from the ground, all the spectators could only hear the unique sound of metal colliding against each other.

Wieland waved his hand and all the dust was expulsed from the platform, but no one could have expected the final result of their clash, while the sword in Aster's hand had a little crack on its blade while the peak mysterious rank sword "Vil" was… cut in half.

Ward's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets; he only came out of his daze when he heard Aster speaking to him.

"The sword is not what makes the swordsman, a true swordsman can use everything as if it was a sword… judging for the idiot expression you have on your face I bet you didn't even imagine that you had a chance to lose, "a frog at the bottom of a well", whatever you lost so get your ass out of the platform and never approach Aria again".

Aster then focused his attention on Ebbe while completely ignoring Ward but when he was about to start his battle with him, he saw from the corner of his eyes that Ward took out a little dagger from a hidden pocket in his pants.

Ward stood and rushed towards Aster who only shook his head, "the rules are that I can't kill you nor damage your body permanently, but a little suffering will teach you a lesson", he thought.

He swung his sword and before Wieland could react the sound of something hitting the ground broke the silence.

Thud*

"Ahhhh!!!".

Ward's hand which was holding the dagger separated from his body.

The first one to react was Wieland, he disappeared from where he was standing and appeared next to ward and forced him to swallow a pill to calm down the pain, "impossible that kid's sword doesn't have an inscription and the blade was too far from Ward so how the hell did he cut his hand!!!", he though.

Ward might have been proud of his skills with the sword but how could he compare with someone that has obtained sword intention, that's right what Aster used to easily cut a sword from a better rank with a "trash" sword and how he managed to cut Ward's hand without physically touching him was because he used his first stage sword intention "ghost sword", only those who have comprehended an intention could see it so in the spectators eyes it looked like Aster just swung his sword without using any spirit energy and Ward lost his hand just like that.

However, Lilia could clearly see Aster's sword being covered by another "sword" making its size larger than the real one while also improving its sharpness, the reason as to why Aster's sword cracked was that a low ranked sword like that could not stand the tension of the ghost sword.

While Wieland was treating Ward's wound Aster smiled before saying.

"Considering he was not really a threat to me or my family I just gave him a little warning, but perhaps I should have aimed for his neck, senior Wieland probably know this guy better than me so if you consider that he will try to take revenge or something like that, just say it to me right now and I will cut off his head".

All the spectators were speechless, right in front of the second strongest cultivator of the Kraft family a respectable peak stellar constellation cultivator who had a battle prowess that rivaled an early-stage star axys cultivator… someone just threatened the only son of the Kraft's family patriarch.

Wieland wanted to defend Ward but now that he was next to him, he noticed the little dagger that was firmly held by his severed hand, which meant the one that should be punished was none other than him.

All the members from the Kraft family stood from their seats only to be scolded by Wieland.

"Sit down you fools!!!", he sighed before taking Ward's hand from the ground and showing it to everyone.

"Ward Kraft… broke the conditions he set for their fight and the other participant only defended himself so the ones who are wrong here are us".

Wieland called the medic team but before they could go up the platform a wall of white-blue flames appeared to stop them.

"I haven't heard your answer from before, how can you assure me that a guy who tries to stab me just because he is a sore loser is not better dead?", said Aster in a playful tone.

This time even Wieland was speechless, "this kid is serious, if I can't give a proper explanation, he is actually going to kill Ward", he thought.

"Ahem, don't you think that the "lesson" you just gave him is enough to put an end to this… Drage young master?", he said.

Aster shook his head.

"No, in fact let me use this as an opportunity to make things clear", Aster turned to see all the representants before continuing.

"Aria and her father are now part of my family so if anyone of you tries… no if anyone even think of harming them on any way then I will personally teach you all a lesson you will never forget, that being said if you don't have any hidden schedule then, there is nothing to worry".

Once he finished his "warning", he focused his attention on Wieland again, needless to say but Ward already fainted due to the pain and the sedative effect from the healing pill he had swallowed.

Wieland was in a predicament; how could he guarantee that Ward would not try to take revenge? On the other hand, he for a moment thought of forcing his way out of this situation but then he felt a gaze piercing his back and then he realized that such a talented kid like Aster of course had a powerful cultivator protecting him.

"What the hell, since when the Azure sky planet is a gathering point for monsters, I don't have any doubt that if I show the slightest hostility towards that kid… I will be dead before I do anything", he thought.

After a moment Wieland sighed.

"I will make sure that Ward won't leave the main planet of the Kraft family for at least 5 years and if I get to know that he tries anything against you then… I will kill him myself before leaving the Kraft family forever, is that enough for you?".

The representants of the other forces excluding Kail almost forgot how to breath properly due to the shock, that Wieland Kraft, the man that has even used his own body to protect the patriarch of the Kraft family from other star axys cultivators just said that he will personally kill the young master of the Kraft family in case he can't keep his promise!!!

"What in the world is happening", everyone screamed on their heads.

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Aster didn't dispel the flames, instead he was contemplating the possibilities of what would happen.

"To be honest right now the only ones that worry me in a head on fight are star axys cultivators… in 3 years no one in this star cluster will be able to stand up to me, so his proposition of keeping this idiot in his own planet is acceptable, on the other hand why should I let him live another day and have the opportunity of stab my back".

Wieland noticed that his words were not convincing the kid in front of him and he more or less could understand, after all if it was him then he would eliminate a source of problems like Ward if he had the chance to, so he was prepared to give up his own life even if only meant buying a few more seconds for Ward.

The tense atmosphere dispersed when Arthur spoke.

"How about they make a soul oath, so that you will be sure that the Kraft family's young master won't try anything against you?".

Aster dispelled the flame wall before approaching Wieland.

"Wake him up, this is his only chance to leave this place alive", he said.

Wieland let out a sigh of relief, he made Ward smell some kind of potion which immediately woke him up.

"Uncle Wieland… what is happening, t-that psycho cut off my hand you must seek justice for me!!!".

Slap*

Without any warning Wieland slapped Ward's face so hard that his face swollen.

"Who are you trying to trick Ward, I saw the dagger in your hand and you have the guts to ask me to seek "justice", shut up and do what I say so I can… save your life".

Aster shook his head.

"This is what happens when you can't accept a lose", he thought, even if he at first was angry when he lost against Alessia he learned a lesson thanks to that, perhaps that was also part of Aldebaran's evolution but he certainly understood that one can't become unparallel without experimenting defeat at least once and overcoming it.

While Aster was lost in hid thoughts, Wieland finished explaining the situation to Ward who felt his lungs filled with anger, he lost and now he was forced to do a soul oath or dying so how could he not be angry.

"Uncle can… can you not take me and escape from this place, then we can reunite with father and return later to teach this arrogant brat a lesson!!!".

Wieland shook his head.

"Ward… I tried to not shake your confidence in yourself but you leave me no choice, to be honest even if all the patriarchs of the four big families join hands, I'm pretty sure we won't be able to lay a single hand on the kid who defeated you".

Ward almost fainted again, his whole world was crumbling apart, he who was always considered a genius now was being told, that on the greater picture he was nothing.

Aster smiled.

"I don't have time for this, every second that I'm here it's a second, I'm not spending with my girls so do the soul oath at once… and just to be clear don't you dare to portrait me as the "bad guy" here, I know the type of person you are, you place the blame of everything on others instead of accepting the responsibilities for your own actions".

"What did you think was going to happen if you tried to kill someone just because you felt ashamed of losing a friendly match, to be honest you are only alive because uncle Arthur offered a way for you to never stand in my way again, so be grateful for that and burn that gratitude into your heart so you never forget it".

Every word was like a knife stabbing Ward's mind, at last he could only perform the soul oath followed by Wieland who maintained his past promise of dealing with Ward with his own hands if anything happened, once they finished Ward didn't want to be here anymore so he asked some of the members of the kraft family to take him back to the place he was staying.

Wieland felt a bit bitter, unlike the patriarch of the Kraft family he would have preferred to tell Ward about the vastness of the universe, but after all he was not the patriarch so he could only see Ward becoming more and more arrogant with the pass of the years.

He shook his head, "perhaps… this could help him improve in the future", he thought.

Wieland got off the platform to reassume his duty as the supervisor of the fights, well the last fight since now only Ebbe Asher and Aster were left.

Ebbe stretched his body.

"Seems like I'm the only one left, I just want to compare my strength with yours, my little brother told me that you probably have an incredible body strength, I just… want to understand how far is someone like you from the current me".

Aster smiled.

"Well said, to be honest I recently became physically stronger and I also want to test it so I accept your challenge.

Ebbe felt happy, the Asher family was known for their strong physical bodies, although they were not body cultivators with the exception of Eric who was born with a constitution that caught the attention of the patriarch from the Barbarian heart sect which earned him the right to be nurtured by them as a body cultivator.

Ebbe took off all the ornaments that were covering the upper part of his body while he took a battle instance, they will decide everything with only one fist exchange.

Aster did the same, apparently the reason as to why when two members of the Asher family wore nothing but pants while they fought against each other was a sign of integrity, it was their way show the opponent they were not hiding any secret weapon since they considered such an act as something only a coward would do.

Once he took off his upper clothes Aster felt a bit weird, "well this might be their tradition but I sure feel like an exhibitionist" he thought.

Eric was surprised, although Aster didn't have a bulky body type his body was brimming with vitality, "he for sure looks like a body cultivator for me".

Lilia who was seeing her son topless on the platform nodded.

"Of course, he has a strong body, is the physique of a dragon after all".

Once they were ready both rushed at each other and without any delay their fists clashed.

The floor of the platform cracked but neither of them moved, for a moment everyone but Eric and Lilia held their breath.

Egil stood up from his seat and walked to the platform, of course he stopped when he was next to Wieland and waited.

thud*

Ebbe fell backwards, there was some blood dripping from his mouth and his hand was also bleeding but what caught the interest of all the representants was that… he was smiling.

"Hahaha, I hoped to not lose with such a difference but I guess you didn't hold back and I'm thankful for that".

Aster felt respect for him, although he only regained his bloodline one day ago it was true that he used the maximum output of his current physical strength with the exception of the paragon body manifestation of course, and still Ebbe wasn't sent flying, instead he absorbed the impact with his body and that is why he had blood in his mouth.

Aster walked towards Lilia and she handed him a flesh nurturing pill, which he threw at Egil.

"That pill will cure his inner wounds and help him recover his body".

But before Egil did anything, Ebbe stood up and bowed his head bit towards Aster before saying.

"I's my loss, please accept this bow as a sign of respect and I pray you have a happy future with the young miss of the Ghale family hahaha".

Egil didn't doubt his words and immediately helped Ebbe swallow the pill since he could barely move his body right now.

Aster nodded.

"I have to admit that the members of the Asher family are worth becoming acquittance with".

Once the pill entered his body Ebbe felt a relaxing wave running through his body, a moment ago his muscles were killing him but now he felt his completely fine, although he still needed some time to recover the broken bones of his hand that was easier than recover from inner wounds.

The other representants could not hold help but clap, that was a true exchange between two men, the Asher's might not be the most elegant but certainly it was reassuring to have such strong-willed people as allies.

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Aster put on his upper clothes, even after all what happened he didn't even sweat a bit, he returned to his seat, Egil helped Ebbe to sit down next to Eric while the other members of the Asher family returned the platform to the ground, after a couple of minutes it was as if anything happened, well if you ignore the fact that besides Ebbe, the rest of the present younger generation was now feeling depressed.

Although it was not completely their fault, the four families of the Rodia star cluster kept in secret the existence of other star clusters and all the things that could be found there… like stronger cultivators and the true vastness of the universe in where they lived.

At first the secret was kept to not overwhelm the young generation but as the time passed the purpose changed to hide the shameful fact that in recent centuries no one has reached the star tribulation realm.

Wieland was actually of the results, humans tend to increase their efforts when there is a goal, something they want to reach or surpass and even though he was sure the young generation present would not surpass the kid that left a big impression on him, they will for sure be able to walk further than the previous generation on the path of cultivation thanks to this experience.

He couldn't help but sake his head, "if only back then I would have known how vast is this world then… I would have not been limited to the Rodia star cluster", he thought.

The rest of the party went on without any problem, the food was delicious and the wine was good enough to wash away any negative feeling that the representatives might have due to their young generation being defeated, Arthur actually opened the bottle of monkey wine he got from the Asher family and offered Wieland a toast, Eric tried to shamelessly ask Arthur for some of the wine only to be dragged back to his seat by Egil.

By sunset everyone was enjoying the festive atmosphere, people who would normally never talk to each other like the Rein and the Asher were now drinking happily with each other while listening to stories of the older people from their young years.

If there was one person that wasn't enjoying the festive atmosphere was the first elder, while the fight between the young generation was being held, he sneakily approached Kail Rein to inform how he was humiliated by Aster before and to ask for him to become his supporter just like Kray used to be, because he was losing all his influence on the Ghale family due to Arthur suddenly advancing on his cultivation and paying off his debt with the family only to be told "scram" before being sent away by Kail's personal guards.

Arthur was enjoying his birthday party for the first time since his wife got sick so many years ago, he saw Aster standing from his seat and approaching him.

"Uncle Arthur it's getting late so we will take our leave, I hope you enjoy the rest of the day… this is probably not something I should meddle with but after so many years you should consider finding a new partner, you are not getting young hahaha".

Arthur was speechless.

"Sigh, what are you saying, let me enjoy the memory of my dear Aina some more time, a cultivator has a long life so I still have time to settle up with my past before turning the page… changing the subject seems like that flower you gave my daughter did its magic, those who don't know her might not notice but her eyes are different now".

Aster smiled.

"Of course, only the best for my dear Aria, enjoy the rest of the party and if you need anything to hesitate to ask Kail about it".

Arthur nodded and said goodbye to his daughter, as the host he couldn't leave the party so a moment later Aster and the girls left the Ghale family grounds, since there were too much people here, they went to Aria's inn before Lilia transported them back to the castle.

Alice stretched her body before taking off everything besides her underwear.

"Since my brother spent all the day with sweaty muscular men, I guess you don't mind dedicating the night to your beautiful older sister, right ?".

Aster almost tripped when he heard Alice's words.

"Don't say things that could be misunderstood sis… regarding the other part today both you and Aria will have to work as good sisters hehehe".

Lilia sighed, she already had her time alone with her son so tonight it was time for Alice and Aria to have their turn… but then remembering how those spied on her she smiled.

"I agree that tonight you should focus your attention on them but as the most experienced one in our family then, I will stay to supervise that everything goes well hehehe ".

Alice immediately tried to refuse.

"M-mom that's not fair!!!".

Lilia shook her head.

"That is one thing and this is another one, I'm your mother and I know you better than anyone Alice, so I will stay in case you "accidentally" move when your brother mm how should I say it? … enters your back door ".

Aria's face turned red when she heard Lilia's words, not only because she was speaking about such intimate things but because… without Aster knowing she has been using that butt plug thing the whole day, since she was older than Alice her body was better prepared to accept her lover and since Lilia told them to keep their innate yin for some more time than the solution was in front of her, well more accurately it was behind her.

,m Alice avoided her mother's eyes, "she saw though me so easily damn it", she thought.

"Fine… you can stay but you will only see, okay?".

Lilia nodded.

"Of course, I won't interfere" … "at least not until you and Aria can't keep up with Aster's unlimited resistance hehehe" she internally added.

Now that things were settled up Alice told Aster to left the room for a moment while she and Aria prepared, of course Lilia also stayed.

Aster did as they told and waited outside for a moment, to be honest he was also nervous he was a virgin not too longer ago and now he was about to experience another kind of pleasure and with his own sister from all the possible partners, well Aria also looked quite decided to give it a try so who knows maybe today he will "eat" two girls instead of only one.

While Aster was imagining a beautiful pink world in his future, Alice and Aria were inside changing her clothes, although they already decided to take a step ahead on their relationship with Aster today, when the time for it arrived, they were so nervous that their legs were shaking.

"M-mom and what if he doesn't like how, it feels… doing it there is a bit weird after all", said Alice.

Aria was walking in circles in the room.

"I have only used the butt plug for a day, will I be able to take him inside… will it hurt?", she asked.

Lilia was feeling a bit amused, "these two were so brave a moment ago when they were asking for it but now look at them hahaha".

She placed one hand on their shoulders before saying.

"It will be fine, first let's calm down, you two come with me", Lilia sat on the bed and both Alice and Aria followed her.

Lilia smiled before continuing.

"Okay that's better, although I didn't show it externally… I was also really nervous when I became one with him for the first time, but once we did it, I felt an incredible bliss, the comforting feeling of having intimacy with your lover it's worth the little amount of pain that it might come with it".

"Alice although your body is still little, you have trained a lot for this day so don't get the cold feet now and Aria you might have only started today but you are already a fine young lady and Aster is still growing so you will be fine too, so now open that door and behave like a good pair of sisters that share a husband, okay?".

With renovated confidence in themselves both of them stood up, but when they were about to completely undress but Lilia stopped them.

"He likes to take those last pieces of clothes himself, take it as a good advice from your mother… girls ".

Alice and Ara exchanged gazes before smiling and opening the door.

Aster saw that the only thing that changed was that now Aria was also only using underwear but he supposed they just wanted to talk about somethings with Lilia before starting.

He wrapped one arm around their waist while placing his hand on their asses.

"If you two are ready then let's start… sis I owe you this since a long time and you are also the most prepared so you will be the first".

Alice nodded and Aster guided her to the bed, since she spied on the many poses that her brother used with his mother when they did it, she already knew how to make it easier for him to do it.

Without Aster saying anything Alice settled down on all fours with her butt pointed at Aster before giving him a tempting gaze.

"I'm all yours Aster ".

Seeing his sister's ass swaying from side-to-side Aster approached Alice until his face was a couple centimeters away from her ass, he could see a thin wet spot forming in the middle of her panties due to her love juices starting to flow from her pussy which made him smile before licking that same spot over her panties.

"Hnnn ", Alice reacted immediately, the feeling of her brother's tongue through the thin fabric of her underwear was still quite stimulating and she wasn't the only one, Aria who was still standing next to Lilia also started getting wet.

"I'm not doing anything so why am I getting wet down there also!!!", she thought,

Lilia noticed her confused expression.

"It's normal, you are feeling "anticipation", your body does recognize Aster as your lover so it is normal that it prepares for him beforehand, although you are not going to use the front entrance it will still wet itself to make it easier for him, in other words you are horny ".

Aster who was still teasing Alice over her panties listened to her mother words and he smiled, "who would have thought that these two who didn't get along with each other at the beginning would end up becoming close enough have fun together", he thought.

"Aria, come here you will be getting the same treatment as Alice tonight".

He didn't need to repeat the phrase twice, Aria threw herself at Aster which made them fell on the bed, Alice who was lost in her thoughts felt the bed moving and when she turned to see what was happening, he saw Aria kissing her brother as if there was no tomorrow.

"Come on I can't let down my guard for a moment… whatever he has always said that he likes us to cooperate so I guess every once in a while, I don't mind it, besides after remembering how many times he did it with mom I don't think only one of us can take all his "love", she thought before also jumping on her brother.

Aster stopped kissing Aria and pressed his lips against Alice's before moving his hands downwards and rubbing both of their pussies over their panties, feeling the softness of their intimate skin covered by the refined fabric he internally nodded, "the heavens gave the us two hands for this purpose definitely", he thought.

"~~Hyaaahn ~~".

Both Alice and Aria were surprised by his sudden surprise attack, at first, they tried to held their voices back but once the first moan came out, they started to loosen up, after all what's there to be ashamed if both of them do it, the only thing they didn't take into account was that Lilia was observing them.

Seeing her daughter's lustful expression Lilia felt a bit complex, "Alice looks a lot like me so I guess that is how I looked back then when I was drowning in pleasure… so lewd ".

Meanwhile Aster was alternating between kissing his sister and Aria while teasing them with his hands at the same time, feeling that their panties were completely soaked Aster pulled them down before gently pushing one of his fingers inside of them.

"Hnnnm", Alice couldn't hold back anymore, Aster felt her insides tightening around his finger before a large amount of his sister's nectar drenched his hand.

Not too long later Aria tried to stop Aster's hand from moving but he reacted faster than her and softly rubbed her clit with his thumb which made her body shiver a bit before she also climaxed.

"W-wait Aster I'm about to… mmmmph ".

Seeing the red flushed faces of both his girls and the different yet enticing pleasure moans of them he was delighted to the point where he had to put some effort to not laugh out loud.

"Aizz, listening to their cute moans is truly a bliss, I can't believe I was missing something as good as this back on earth", how could he not feel proud, any man would gladly accept having two girls on his bed at the same time even if it was only a one-time thing… and here he was making love to two beauties on what for sure was going to be the first of many times.

Unlike Alice who has been having this kind of interactions on a daily basis with Aster for some time, Aria was feeling a bit numb after climaxing just once, that's why she tried to stop him a moment ago.

She softly hit Aster's shoulder a couple of times before gasping and saying.

"Haa…haa, why did you do that, shouldn't we have reserved that for later?".

Aster smiled before licking the left-over juices in his hands, unconsciously he compared their unique fragrances, Aria was definitely sweeter but on the other hand Alice had lewd enticing taste, "she is my sister after all", he thought, before laughing and saying.

"I wanted you two to relax a bit, now that you both shared that moment I'm sure you won't feel too embarrassed for what we are about to do".

Alice recovered from her climax faster than Aria and she took off her bra before doing the same with her panties since they were already midway down her legs, which immediately caught Aster's attention, although she was still growing, her slender figure was already showing the same type of curves as Lilia, she turned to see her brother with a horny expression on her face.

"I… can't take it anymore, let's do it already pleaseeee ".

,m Aster patted her head, he also took off his clothes because as a man how could he be ashamed to show his body to his lovers, in fact he was proud of his physical appearance, even if he was young in age terms, his body was perfectly toned avoiding a bulky figure but still maintaining a manly constitution.

Aria saw his naked body and she couldn't help but admire his figure, right now he looked a bit childish but she could already more or less imagine how he would look in the future and she blushed, "since when I'm a pervert… sigh these new family of mine is for sure not a good influence for me ".

"Sis, accommodate the way you prefer, now that your body is relaxed it will be easier for me to… put it in".

Alice returned to be in all fours but this time she accommodated her face on a couple of stacked pillows while raising her ass a bit higher than the rest of her body, in that pose and since she was not wearing her panties anymore Aster could see the little handle of the butt plug sticking out of her cute pink asshole".

Aster licked his lips.

"Now that is quite a sight to behold", he said before slowly taking out the butt plug, Alice bit one of the pillows to not let out any weird noises, after all the time she has been using the butt plug she already became more sensitive thanks to it.

With a little low *pop* the last bead of the butt plug came out, unlike what one would think and maybe due to all the training and exercise she does her hole immediately closed as if there was nothing stretching it out a bit, inside of it just a few seconds ago.

Aster noticed that this time it was easier to take out the butt plug as if Alice had learned to control her insides jut a bit and he was relieved, the reason as to why he insisted on making both of them cum once before they did it was to avoid them feel too much pain.

One of the few things he missed from his past life was definitely internet but right now the few things he has read about sex were doing miracles, anal sex puts more tension on the body of the woman and he was worried about hurting Alice accidentally.

Last time he lost himself in the pleasure of Lilia's body and he started being rougher instinctively, luckily there were not any bad experiences since Lilia was also a body cultivator so she could take his lust without any problems but… now his physic was different than when he did it with his mother, due to the mix of the golden paragon body and the Drage bloodline even he wasn't sure what was the limit of his current physical strength.

But the heavens created women to perfectly complement men and even if it was the first time their bodies will release hormones to lessen the pain and enhance the pleasure after climaxing, of course doing it with someone they loved also helped.

Aster saw Alice's hole twitching a bit and looking as immaculate and tight as the first time he got a close view of it and he internally let out a sigh of relief, he did all the possible preparations so now it was time to reap the reward for all his efforts.

"Hiiiii ", Alice let out a surprised moan feeling her brother licking her back door one last time.

Aster accommodated behind Alice and rubbed his penis on her ass a couple of times before saying.

"Here it goes sis… if you feel uncomfortable just say the word and we will stop, ok?".

"Mm", she only managed to make a little sound of confirm due to the mix of overwhelming things that were going through her mind right now, she knew that Aster really worried about not hurting her so she was keeping herself calm, "finally although it's not on the front I will become one with my beloved brother ", she thought.

Aster stole one last glance at his mother and saw her nodding, he beforehand asked Lilia to stay in the room and if he showed signs of losing control, she was in charge of stopping him, after all even if Aria was a stellar constellation cultivator her battle prowess wasn't high enough to suppress him in case it was needed but Lilia could do it.

"This stupid bloodline better turns out to be really useful because it is for sure causing me a lot of trouble", he thought.

Aster put all his worries in the back of his mind, right now his main priority was the girl in front of him, his own sister and the first one to accept him as a man on his two lives.

He gently spread her ass a bit before placing his thing on her entrance and slowly pushing it inside of her, once the tip was completely inside, he stopped because the pleasure was to overwhelming.

"What is this!!! it's completely different than doing it in the front, she is so tight and warm I feel as if my dick is melting", he thought.

"How do you feel does it hurt?".

Alice shook her head while hiding her face on the pillow.

"No ahnnn , you can continue", she said in a low voice.

Aster smiled, he put his hands on her hips to keep her in place and pushed his penis until half of it was inside of her ass.

"Uwaahh, I can't advance more… she is tightening too much", he thought.

"Sis, relax a bit or it won't go in, sis?".

"Mmmmm ".

Aster felt Alice's body tremble a bit and then he saw her juices flowing again… she came just from him putting it in.

Aster shook his head, "seems like I was worried for nothing, I guess I should have expected no less from my own sister", he put a bit more force into his hips and pushed the rest of his thing inside of her.

When he looked downwards, the lewd sight of his penis buried up to the hilt into her back door almost made him cum, he extended his left arm while his right hand was still holding onto her hips.

Aria smiled, she also took of her bra and hugged Aster before kissing him, feeling the two sources of pleasure one on the lower part of his body and the other on the upper part he confirmed his previous thoughts.

"They for sure know how to cooperate hahaha".

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Now that Aster was completely inside of her asshole, he could feel the clear difference between doing it on the front and the back, Lilia's pussy was for sure tight but he was able to move without too much force thanks to the big amount of love juice that acted as lubrication, on the other hand it took a lot of work to just push it inside of Alice and his current size was not even close to the one he will reach in the future.

He stopped kissing Aria for a second.

"Sis I'm going to start moving… try to relax a bit or it might hurt you".

It took Alice a moment to answer.

"Yeshhh ", Aster was being as careful as possible and that allowed her to fully enjoy the orgasm that he made her reach when he pushed all his penis inside of her.

Aster started slowly moving his hips back and forth which made Alice tighten her hands on the sheet.

"Mmmph "

Lilia was watching from the side the intense and passionate "show" between her son, Alice and Aria, to be honest it was hard for her to believe that Aster's thing was able to fit in such a tiny hole but seeing how her son had a pleasured expression it was not hard to know he was really enjoying it and not only him, although Alice was suffocating her moans with the pillow they still could be heard from time to time.

"I wonder if that… feels as good as Alice makes it look like", she thought.

While Aster gave one last kiss to Aria before focusing on completely on Alice, at first, he thought that he could be able to handle both of them at the same time, but since it was the first time he was penetrating his sister whenever he tried to move back to thrust again, his dick almost slid outside due to the force he was using.

Aria smiled, before whispering in his ears.

"You better give me lots of love once you finish with Alice ".

Aria step aside for a moment and now that both of his hands were free, he grabbed Alice's hips from both sides and used them to help him push inside of her ass.

"Wuhhh ", Alice immediately felt the change in the frequency of her brother's thrusts and she also noticed that both of his hands were grabbing her body to make it easier for him to do her and she smiled, "finally… you focus on the main event of tonight ", she thought.

Now that Aster was completely focusing on Alice it was easier for him to catch up the rhythm and before he noticed the bed was making creaking noises following his movements.

While still thrusting Aster suddenly hugged Alice's body and made her change position so her back was now pressed against his chest, he grabbed both of her breasts with his hands, the sudden stimulation took Alice by surprise.

She covered her face with her hands because she saw her mother smiling at her from the corner of eyes, "that lewd mother… I'm aware of the lusty expression I have right now", she came out of her daze when she felt Aster fondling her breasts.

"Hyaanhh , w-what are you doing? They are small now but…".

Aster smiled before licking her nape and interrupting her.

"I have not paid enough attention to this pair of cute things and I don't want you to think that I don't like them".

Although most of the time it looked like she didn't mind he knew that Alice stole some glances every time he played with Lilia's breasts and it was easy to understand what she was thinking, compared to his mother or Aria she had smaller breasts but it was perfectly normal since she was the youngest out of them.

He gently rubbed her nipples with his fingers.

"Don't worry sis, I will make sure to fondle them a lot so they grow big and beautiful".

Alice shook her head, "he is really a pervert… but I like it that way ", she thought.

Aster liked this position better because like this he could feel the warmness of his lover's body, right now he could not do it like this with Lilia or Aria due to the difference in height but Alice was perfect for it.

He felt Alice's ass pressing down against him and he saw his sister smile while moving by herself, Aster started kissing her neck while leaving her do it at her own pace, it had its own charm to see her clumsy tries to please him even if she had no experience.

At some point Aster felt her insides tightening and he knew she was about to climax, so he stopped fondling her breasts and grabbed her waist before moving back and forth faster than before.

The very moment Alice's insides started squeezing his penis due to her orgasm he let out his sperm as deep inside of her as he could.

"Ahnnn ", Alice felt the warm thing of her brother filling her ass and she also climaxed, it was a different feeling than when she finishes from the stimulation on her pussy but it still felt really good, and combined with the fact that Aster was hugging her so close that she could feel his breath on the back of her neck.

After what seemed to be an eternity for Alice, they both lose strength on their limbs and fell on the bed Aster was on top of her body while still connected to her, maybe because she was still tightening around his penis but his erection didn't disappear.

Aster's gaze changed to a lust filled one but when he was about to start pounding his sister again, he saw the slight red tone on her butt cheeks which appeared due to Alice constantly hitting them against his body in a try to please him and he immediately recovered control over his body.

He shook his head to fully regain control over himself, "Stupid body, since when I only care about my pleasure instead of my girl's wellbeing!!!", he thought.

Lilia who was about to interfere a moment ago smiled, she noticed her son's expression becoming a bit wilder and she thought he was overwhelmed by his instincts as a descendant of a dragon but for some reason after looking at Alice he regained his control immediately.

"That is my darling, always caring about us ".

And she was right, not only Aster's bloodline was far stronger than the average member of the Drage family but he just regained it so his body was still adapting to the sudden changes that came along with it.

Aster slowly took out his penis from Alice's hole and the scene of his sperm overflowing from her asshole made him got hard again, although he came a lot when he did it with Lilia, this time… he let out such a big load he could only blame his new body for it, to avoid forcing himself on Alice he got off her body and laid down next to her.

Seeing Alice's pleased and tired expression he smiled before pressing his lips against hers.

"How was it, did you like it, sis?", he asked.

Alice moved her body a bit and leaned her head on his shoulder.

"Yeah… it hurt a bit at first but then, the pleasure took over and my body got used to you going in and out ".

Aster caressed her hair, Alice looked happy and that was all what mattered, he knew how much she wanted to give him her first time but it was still too soon for that, her body was yet to mature and she needed her primordial yin to fully take advantage of her bloodline.

On the other hand, something similar happened to Aria, even if she was already old enough to not need her primordial yin anymore, she just awakened her constitution so until she learnt to control it, she could not lose her virginity, unlike men who produce yang so easily, women produce less yin element because by nature yin is actually negative for living beings.

Up to this day some mysteries like why women bodies could stand the corroding and normally poisonous properties of the yin element are still an unresolved issue.

Alice originally wanted to keep going a couple more times but after experiencing such an intense session she actually fell asleep while feeling the soft touch of her lover, Aster kissed her forehead and let her rest a bit.

He turned to see Aria and licked his lips.

"Well, seems like now I'm all yours my cute Aria".

Aria saw his thing which was hard and ready for the action and she blushed.

"Shouldn't it become s-soft again after the man release his sperm… so why does it look even bigger than before?", she thought.

Lilia was amused by her reaction.

"You see Aria, normally a men would not be able to keep it hard after a round but our lover is way better than any other "man" so of course he can keep doing it after only one round, in fact I'm sure even if we all three join hands he will still come up ahead ".

Aria nodded.

"It's fine, as his g-girlfriend is my duty to please my man so I will try my best".

Aster shook his head, "don't be tricked by that sex demon mother of mine", he said before dragging her closer to him.

"You see, I'm actually quite curious about how different will you feel from Alice… so shall we start?".

Aria doubted a bit but she still accommodated in all fours before saying.

"I didn't have enough time to get used to it so be gentle please ".

Now it was time for Aster to be surprised, since she spread her ass a bit, he could now see the unmistakable handle of a butt plug sticking out of her cute pinkish asshole which made him smile from ear to ear.

"Seems like my Aria is also quite pervy as well huh?".

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Even Lilia was surprised, "when did she put that thing in", she thought.

Aria could feel Lilia's gaze and her face was red as a tomato, even she could not believe that Alice actually convinced her to insert such a thing by herself as a surprise "gift" for Aster.

Speaking of Aster, he was dumbfounded enjoying the beautiful portrait of both her most private places exposed in front of him until he heard Aria saying.

"D-don't stare at it too much… it's embarrassing, just take it out like you did with Alice", her shy voice volume became lower at the end, which he found really cute.

He placed his hands on her round ass and gave himself a moment to enjoy the soft and elastic feeling he got when fondling her butt cheeks, "was I always infatuated with asses or is it something I developed due to the daily exposure to mom's curvy body?", he wondered.

Aster grabbed the handle of the butt plug and started pulling of it, unlike Alice, she hasn't removed it not even once before because she only inserted it today so Aster was having some trouble trying to pull it out, he gave her a soft spank to caught her attention.

"Hnnn ".

"Aria, try to relax a bit or I won't be able to remove it without hurting you".

"O-okay, I'm ready".

This time he could slowly pull the first bead out, although the butt plug, she was using was a bit bigger than the one Alice used, her body was also more developed so it was more or less the same, now that the biggest bead came out the rest followed without any further resistance.

Maybe because she watched Aster doing it with Alice, Aria's pussy was soaked to the point love juices were dripping a bit from it.

Aster licked his lips before he started licking her nectar right from the source.

"Mmmm".

Feeling his tongue gently making circles on the outer area of her pussy Aria couldn't help but let out some moans, since Alice was sleeping and Lilia wouldn't make fun of her then there was no need to hold back her voice.

While he was feasting on the sweetness of her love juices, Aster saw her asshole twitching a bit and he smiled, "looks like this cutie also wants some attention".

"Mm? Is everything ok…. Hyannn".

Aria felt when Aster stopped licking her and when she was about to ask why she suddenly felt something soft invading her back door.

As a girl she was naturally worried about her hygiene, so at first when Alice explained about using her ass to make love with Aster she utterly refused, but then Alice told her how her brother liked to lick both her pussy and her ass whenever he had the chance which made her pay even more attention to her natural body fragrance.

And even after she personally confirmed that she was as clean as possible now that Aster was licking her, she was still a bit worried that he didn't like how she tasted, but that was not the case at all, in fact Aster was quite enjoying her natural sweet fragrance which seemed to also extend to her ass.

"Damn, how can a girl taste so freaking good?", he thought, he has tasted three girls up to this point including his mother and Alice and they all were amazingly good but Aria's sweetness was the most outstanding out of them all and now he noticed that it was not only her love juice, even her insides had the same taste.

While Aster was engrossed in the moment, Aria was having a hard time controlling her urge to orgasm, she was already quite excited when she saw how Aster did Alice before and now the stimulation on both her pussy and ass was just too much.

"Ahnnnn ".

Her body trembled a bit before she couldn't hold back anymore and her nectar flowed from her pussy drenching Aster's face on the process, of course Aster didn't miss the chance to drink it to the content of his heart.

Arias legs gave up and she let her body rest on the bed for a moment while she was trying to recover fast from her climax because the main event was about to start, Aster saw her defenseless current state and his dick was as hard as it could be.

He laid down on top of her, unfortunately due to the difference in height to be in a comfortable position to penetrate her, his face only reached her upper back below the base of her nape, so kissing her while doing it was not possible in this position, but he still gently kissed her back a couple of times before saying.

"I will put it in now, okay?".

Aria just nodded; her body was completely relaxed right now so this was the best chance she had to not feel any pain and only enjoy the pleasure caused by the big thing that was about to invade her ass, she took a deep breath and used her hands to spread her butt cheeks a bit to make it easier for her lover to go inside.

Aster saw her tempting invitation and he smiled, "how can I not give lots of love to such a good girl", he thought before moving his thing until the tip was touching the entrance of her asshole, he started slowly pushing it inside.

"Wuhhh ", Aria let out a little pained moan, and Aster understood why, her entrance was even tighter than Alice, probably because she just used the butt plug for one day so she hasn't gotten used to anything going in.

After some tries and thanks to the pre-cum that was covering his penis, the tip was finally completely inside of her, Aster stopped a moment to let Aria get used to it.

"How is it, if it hurts, we should stop, it took Alice a long time of preparations until she was able to take it so, don't force yourself okay?".

Aria shook her head.

"No!! … let's keep going, I also want to feel you deep inside me".

Aster held one of her hands and used his thumb to caress it.

"You silly girl, even if we can't do it properly right now it won't change my love for you".

After a moment of silence Aria said.

"It's not like that, I know you don't mind whether we do it now or later but… I want it, I still don't understand what made me go to your room, back when we first met my heart beat changed for the first time in my life, at first, I didn't understand why I felt like I was destined to meet you, however after getting to know you better I don't worry about that anymore, from the bottom of my heart I want to be with you forever ".

Without noticing, tears started flowing from Aster's eyes.

"Huh? Why am I crying? he thought.

In the mind space Rya had a relieved smile on her face.

"I had my doubts but after all this time, planets, stars, dimensions… to think that they all followed you all the way here and against any possibility they still... sigh if this is not a miracle, I don't know how to call it".

Aster wiped his eyes, he felt the sudden urge to kiss Aria so without caring that he had to take his dick out of her to reach her face, he moved as fast as he could and pressed his lips against hers, for a moment he forgot about everything, for a moment only he and Aria existed in their own world before they stopped kissing.

He caressed Aria's face a couple of times before putting on a pervert smile.

"If you wanted me to do you this much, you should have said it from the beginning".

Aria's face blushed.

"Don't tease me… just give me a lot of love and never let me go ".

Aster nodded.

"Deal".

He returned to his previous position and this time he used some of her leftover love juice to lubricate her tight entrance before pushing his penis inside.

"Mmm".

Aster didn't stop until he was completely inside of Aria and although she still felt as if she was going to split apart, this time her body surprisingly accepted his thing easier than before.

The sudden warm and soft yet tightening sensation was too much for Aster so he didn't bother to hold back and let out his first load inside of her, the warm sperm made Aria think her ass was burning but she loved the feeling.

"It feels good ", she said.

Aster smiled; his erection was not even close to disappear.

"I still have a lot of energy so let's see how many times can you "dance" with me tonight".

...

The bed was shaking, their bodies were covered in sweat, Aster had long lost the count of how many times he has came inside of her without stopping, the area of the bed below them was drenched in their fluids creating a lewd yet enticing fragrance.

After the first time his semen acted ad lube so he started going in and out quite easily and they both simply kept going at it until Aria could not take it anymore, Aster felt her insides coiling around his penis so he gave one last thrust with all his might before he decided to stop because he was worried that it might be too much for her to handle.

"Mmmphh ", Aria climaxed one last time before she fell asleep with a happy satisfied smile on her face.

Aster got off her back and looked at the roof of the room while controlling his breath, even if his penis was still hard, he needed some time to calm down, for some reason after he started doing it with Aria his heart was beating like crazy, from the corner of his eyes he could see both his mother and sister looking at him.

Apparently, the moans and little gasps that echoed through the room woke Alice up and the first thing she saw was her brother "riding" Aria quite hard, she turned to see Lilia who had a complex expression on her face.

"Mom… did you also feel it?", she asked.

Lilia came out of her daze before answering.

"Yes, it was just a sudden flash that disappeared almost immediately but I felt an incredible bliss, as if I obtained something I have longed for a long time… this is not the first time something like this happens when Aster took my first, I experienced something similar, I thought it was because my precious son was finally one with me but it seems that was not the only reason".

And this why they were unsuccessfully trying to replicate that "feeling" by looking at Aster.

This day, Aster and the girls obtained something that was more valuable than any material object, more important than even the 13 stars in his mind space or the powers they were granting him, but... it will be some time before any of them could understand the greatness of what they accomplished on this little isolated planet on one of the lowest ranked star clusters that exist.

Not that they were really worried about it, instead now that Aster was free Lilia took off her clothes before laying down on top of him.

"Darlinnng, do you still have some energy to mommy some love ?", she asked.

Aster smiled, he moved his hands downwards and started fondling Lilia's big ass with them.

"The real question should be if you have enough energy to keep up with me".

Lilia laughed before guiding his penis to the entrance of her pussy before lowing down her body to make it go inside of her.

"Mmnhhg … I was going crazy seeing you doing it with them you know?", she whispered in his ears.

Aster kissed her before he started moving back and forth".

"Yup, maybe because this stupid new bloodline but I can tell when you or sis are horny".

"Hnnn", feeling her son's thing going in and out of her Lilia let her sweet moans come out.

… Alice saw Lilia breaking her promise to not participate on tonight's activities and she jumped to the action.

"Mom!!! that is cheating, if anything I should be the one doing it".

The only one that actually had some sleep that night was Aria.

End of the Volume 01.

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The sky was clear as a mirror, the grass had a thin layer of morning dew and the sun illuminating the land, it was a beautiful morning in the azure sky planet, but even if it was quite early in the morning there were many people who were busy right from the beginning, the reason… today the big four families were going to explore a secret realm.

It was an important day in the history of the azure sky planet, for the first time in almost 2000 years a new secret realm was about to open in Zartia, one of the planets under the rule of the Wolfstein family, of course the event was only known by those who had some kind of connection with any of the four big families.

The Auction house in Ghaleria managed by the Kraft family, the near area where the Rein family had their own mansions, the fragrant pavilion where the members from the Asher family spent almost all their time and finally the castle of the Wolfstein family, those were the places where you could see people running around making noises and preparing for what was about to happen.

Speaking of the Wolfstein the castle, more accurately on the south east area which was always covered in a black barrier, there were also a lot of voices coming from one of the rooms.

Alice was being blocked by Aria right next to the bed where a boy with black hair was laying down peacefully sleeping.

"Move out Aria, today it's my turn to have the first kiss of the day!!!".

Aria refused.

"Dream on… you always wake up earlier but today I was up before so I deserve it".

Their discussion stopped when they suddenly heard another voice.

"Mm , good morning darling".

Lilia took advantage of they being distracted to receive the first kiss of the day from her son.

Aster's eyelids trebled a bit before he slowly opened his eyes, after three years of sleeping in the same bed with three different women he was thanking the heavens for the existence of the mind space, because when he entered it all the noise from the real world could be cancelled, he would only wake up whenever he felt any of the girls kissing him and that was the origin of this weird morning scene where they competed to wake him.

The first thing he saw was Lilia's smiling beautiful face just a few centimeters away from him, remembering the passionate love making session he had with her just a few hours ago make him smile before dragging her close to him and press his lips against hers.

"Good morning mom", he said.

Lilia caressed his face and appreciated the changes that had happened on her son's appearance in the last three years, the youths from the Drage family who had talent for body cultivation thus having black hair tend to look older than their real ages but not like Aster, he recently turned 11 years old but he looked as a teen of about 17 years, luckily Alice also changed if not he would have been mistaken as the older of the two siblings.

Besides the fact that he was almost 1.7 meters of height now, the next most important change was that after finally reaching the early stage of the star formation realm three months ago his eye color changed from the original calm blue to a sharp and piercing golden color.

Although it was a bit weird, in the past there were a couple of occasions were his eye color changed for a short moment to golden so he was not too surprised about it, according to Rya it was a side effect since he now was at the star formation realm and he will now be storing annihilation inside of his own body instead of him having to take it from Hyperion in the mind space.

In fact, Rya was also surprised, she had prepared a method for Aster to prevent annihilation from vanishing his star nucleus but the very moment he integrated it to reach the star formation, the golden light happily attached itself to his star nucleus without causing any troubles, if you were to see his dantian region right now, besides the black book which was still on the process of evolution you would be able to see a miniature golden sun radiating light.

"Mm?", Aster could feel two gazes focused on him and he extended his arms towards Alice and Aria before saying.

"Come here you two".

Of course, they didn't need to hear it twice, both of them jumped on the bed and landed on his right and left side respectively, Aster now had Lilia in the middle in top of him resting her head on his chest, Alice leaned on his right shoulder and Aria on the left one.

Aster shook his head, "these three have become really spoiled… but that might be my fault", he thought.

Alice moved upwards and she got lost into her brother's eyes for a moment before kissing him.

"Although I was surprised when you suddenly started growing up on many ways , I have to admit that golden truly fits you, my man must look really cool".

Aster smiled, feeling the pair of soft things pressing against his right arm.

"Well, I'm not the one that "grew", a lot during these three years".

Alice stuck her tongue at him.

"I thought you were joking when you told my that, playing a lot with my breasts will make them grow but I'm quite satisfied with the results ".

To be honest thanks to Alice having good genes thanks to Lilia and the puberty, even if Aster didn't fondle her breasts a lot during their night sessions, she would have still developed the curvy figure she has now but he will never admit it.

Aster felt someone pinching his left arm and he gave Alice one last kiss before Aria took her place, even now although Aria was used to be naked in front of him, she still liked Aster to take the initiative and he had no problems with that.

Aria rose her eyes and they exchanged gazes for a moment before Aster sealed her lips with a kiss, Aria closed her eyes and enjoyed the comforting feeling of her lover spoiling her.

"Nnn ".

Aster only stopped when he felt a hand fondling his dick over his pants, he gently separated from Aria and stopped Lilia from teasing him.

"Mom, we have to go in less than an hour… besides we did it so much last night so let's go take a bath before it gets too late".

Lilia sighed.

"Fine, still I could transport us to Zartia you know, or I could have used my own spaceship to travel there now that you are on the star formation realm… I don't understand why you asked that kid from the Asher family to take us there instead".

Aster smiled.

"Well, you could say that I don't want to "scare the serpent hidden in the grass", on any case Eric offered us two of the five spots assigned to the Asher family so this is also a show of trust".

Lilia more or less understood what her son was planning, originally, she was going to force the four big families to let them enter the secret realm, but Aster got two of the spots from the Asher family so there was no need for that anymore.

Only those in the star formation realm and below a certain range of age could enter so only Aster and Alice were going to participate and Eric asked them to team up with him, the reason of that was that Aster wanted to keep his mother's cultivation in secret until it was time to leave this star cluster.

They all stood from the bed and went to the bathroom, of course Lilia didn't miss the chance to wash her son's body personally but they stopped before anything happened, after three years Aster more or less could control his lust better than when he just got his bloodline back so as long as none of the girls did anything too extreme there was no problem.

After they finished bathing, they dried off and put on some clothes, Lilia prepared a new set of clothes for her son, a coat which was quite similar to the first one he used, white with some golden decorations, a set of black pants and boots, if anything was different was that he now used a pair of gloves to avoid his sword sliding from his hands in the middle of a battle… fights were bound to happen on the exploration after all.

Once they were all ready, Lilia transported them to Aria's inn, before leaving Aria told Arthur to come say goodbye at the inn along with her uncle Sebastian.

Arthur gave Aster a serious gaze before saying.

"Kid… take care of my daughter, okay?".

Aster nodded.

"Don't worry uncle, Aria will come with us but she won't be entering the secret realm so my mother will stay with her outside".

Arthur was a bit relieved, up to this day he didn't know how strong was Lilia but he was sure no one was at her level on this star cluster.

Aria said goodbye to her father and Sebastian and they left the inn, the accorded gathering point was the fragrant pavilion so once they arrived there, Eric was already waiting for them at the entrance of the restaurant, since the first time they met Eric already looked to be on his early twenties, fortunately his appearance didn't change at all on the last three years.

Eric smiled when he saw Aster arriving before he walked until he was in front of him, he gave Aster a strong pat on the back and laughed out loud.

"It's good to see you brother Aster!!! You too sisters" he said.

But internally he was thinking, "damn what is brother's body made of, I didn't use too much force and my hand felt as if I hit a solid piece of metal".

Aster was already used to Eric's energetic behavior so he didn't mind his reaction.

Instead, he looked at the sky above the fragrant pavilion and saw it, the first spaceship in which he will travel "Skull Ritz", or at least that's how Eric named it.

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Eric saw Aster's interest in the space ship and he smiled, he had the same reaction the first time he saw one, "space ships are the romance of a man hahaha".

Although Aster was surprised by the skull ritz it was not to the same point as Eric, but more a curiosity, after all on his previous life airplanes existed and humas already explored the space near earth, what caught his attention was that the space ship didn't have turbines nor propellers unlike on his past life, so he had no clue about how it was floating in the air like that.

Lilia smiled.

"Space ships use a complex series of spirit formations and a lot of spirit stones to fly, that's why only people with a reasonable quantity of resources can buy one, specially in this star cluster where there aren't high ranked rune masters nor spirit blacksmiths".

While Aster was processing his mother's explanation an unknown voice interrupted.

"That lady is right, this Beast Skull is one of the few space ships owned by the Barbarian heart sect, since the disciple of our patriarch is participating on his first secret realm exploration of course we had to give him a fun travel".

Aster turned to see the man who spoke a moment ago and saw middle aged man with white hair and a mustache, wearing a leather full body armor with a bug sword on his back, coming out of the restaurant.

Eric took the initiative to present the man.

"Brother, that is uncle Ritz one of the vice leaders of the Barbarian heart sect and the captain of Ritz skull".

Ritz almost tripped when he heard Eric presenting him.

"Oi brat, what "Ritz skull", my space ship is called "Beast skull" how many times do I have to tell you", he shook his head before looking at Aster while pointing at Eric, "forget it, it's a pleasure to meet you all, my name is Ritz Karze and I'm basically the babysitter of the troublesome disciple of the patriarch".

Aster could understand Ritz reaction, during the past three years he got more into contact with Eric and he was never quiet nor he reserved any of his opinions about anything… in other words he was a headache for the one that supervised him, in the Asher family it was his uncle Egil but the victim on the barbarian heart sect turned to be Ritz.

Eric laughed.

"Come on uncle Ritz you have been having more fun since you met me, right?".

Ritz felt a vein popping on his neck, "more like having my blood pressure going up since I met you", he thought.

Now that everyone was here it was time to leave the azure sky planet, Zartia was not too far from here so in about two hours they would be arriving, Ritz created a platform with his spirit energy and made everyone float until they were at the entrance of the space ship.

The door opened to allow them going inside, once they were in the space ship, Aster recognized a par of people among the staff as members of the Asher family, the inside of the space ship was divided into the living area which consisted in the left side where the rooms for the staff were and the right side for the guests, besides that there was a common area where everyone could pass the time, the basement which functioned as a storage and finally the control cabin where the captain and the navigators supervised the travel.

Ritz guided them to the common area before handing Aster a key, according to his petition in case they wanted to rest they were assigned a big room where the four of them could stay together, besides Aster's group and Eric there were another two guys sitting on a couch in the common area.

Ritz placed his hand on Eric's shoulder before saying.

"I need to return to the control cabin, present them to your older brothers and just guide them to their room after that", Ritz left after giving his instructions and Eric pointed at the two guys who were sitting on the couch.

"The one on the left is Brig he is the "brain" of my team and the guy on the right is Cade my "scout", both of them are my followers chosen personally by me, you two come to present yourselves to my brother Aster".

Brig was fat guy of about 18 years old with red hair while Cade was skinny and seemed to be older since he had signs of a mustache the same color as his blonde hair, when Eric called them, they immediately stood up and walked until they were next to him.

"We are big brother's companions it's a pleasure", they both said.

Aster was amused by how they behaved, although Eric looked older it was clear that those two were actually the older ones here.

He nodded in recognition and Eric dismissed them.

"What do you think brother Aster, they might not look too amazing but those two are on the peak of the star formation realm so they are perfect for this exploration".

Now that those two and Ritz left, Aster and the girls sat on a couch while Eric took a seat in front of them, Eric doubted for a second before saying.

"Normally a peak mortal transcending cultivator like uncle Ritz would have not come all the way here but the barbarian heart sect creator was a native of our Rodia star cluster and my family are the descendants he left behind here, that is why the Asher family has connections with them, even if they are the hegemons of their star cluster".

"On the other hand, the Rein family somehow invited people from another force which is stronger than the barbarian heart sect… they call themselves sand mountain sect and according to Brig's information they have been invaded other low ranking star clusters since a long time to steal resources and enslave their natives.

"That's why uncle Ritz is here, unlike my sect where only the patriarch has reached the sea of knowledge realm… they have two, but even then, since our star cluster is considered an isolated arid place, they only sent a mortal transcending realm cultivator to explore, I don't know how the Rein family convinced them to assist as their "guests" but they are clearly aiming for whatever is inside of the secret realm".

Aster smiled, unlike Eric he got some privileged information directly from Kail, since the Kray's incident the Rein patriarch has starting paying more attention to Kail until he finally earned a place into the core of the Rein family which of course was only to get more information for his boss.

According to Kail, the Rein and Wolfstein families made a soul oath to work together, the Reins had a way to contact an elder from the sand mountain sect and Isaac has been keeping an unknown spirit herb of the stellar rank as the last thing inherited by his ancestors so they basically bribed the elder of the sand mountain sect to bring his disciple to act as guest and explore the secret realm with Kray, Kail, Kayla and… Valentine.

p That's right his "half-brother" was now in the early stage of the star formation realm and Isaac was planning to made him stablish a connection with the disciple of the sand mountain sect, there were more things on their plan for sure but no matter how much Kail contributed to the family his father didn't mention anything else.

Eric suddenly felt his muscles tensing when he saw Aster smiling.

"Brother Aster you… are radiating that terrifying aura again, just like that day in front of the auction house".

Aster shook his head.

"Don't worry, I just thought that enemies are truly bound to meet continuously, on any case it will be fine both Alice and me are enough to deal with this "guest from another star cluster".

Eric felt the Space ship finally moving and an alarm echoing through the whole common area.

"I knew teaming up with you will be more interesting than bringing those other idiots from my sect, we are about to start the travel, let me guide you to your room while we leave the planet, for security reasons only once we are on the outer space you will be able to freely move on the public area.

The star formation realm was the minimum required to travel through the space but the shock of leaving the atmosphere of the planet might still be a problem for those below the star axys realm.

Aster nodded, they all stood up and Eric took them to their assigned room, there were no other guests besides them so the whole right side of the living Area was only occupied by them, he inserted the key and the door opened, once they entered and closed it, Eric left to his own room.

The rooms were designed so the people inside will not feel the space ship moving, anyway Lilia waved her hand and a barrier surrounded the room just in case, Aster took his coat and boots off before laying down on the bed, of course Lilia, Alice and Aria followed him after a moment.

Aster caressed Aria's face before saying.

"Both Kray and Kayla will pay for how they treated you".

Aria sighed.

"Unfortunately, I won't be able to participate", she answered.

Alice smiled.

"Don't worry I will go in your representation, after all that bitch also tried to harm me".

Aster nodded.

"No matter who that guy from the sand mountain sect is, just Alice alone will be enough to destroy him and adding me to the mix there won't be any problems".

"Mm?", he suddenly had a weird feeling close to his star nucleus which made him happy, "those two seem to finally be close to finishing their evolution", he thought.

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While Aster and the girls were relaxing in their room, in the control cabin everyone was busy, Ritz was sitting in a big throne like seat which was placed in a high platform in the middle of the cabin.

"We have important guests today, so let's make this an easing relaxed travel understood!!!".

All the staff that were supervising the different parameters of the ship replied.

"YES SIR".

Ritz nodded, it took him a long time to train his staff to be as efficient as they are right now and he was proud of the results, he still remembers that the first they he met them he had to beat some sense into them and after a lot of work he managed to transform them into a respectable crew, in fact that's why the patriarch of the barbarian heart sect left Eric into his care hoping that Ritz might be able to train him, needless to say that it didn't work.

He shook his head, "that brat is going to cause my death someday I swear, still to think he would befriend the son of a sea knowledge cultivator that happened to be taking a rest in such an isolated place like the Rodia star cluster… fate is unpredictable I guess", he thought.

Eric bragged a lot about his new friend, "he is awesome, no one on his range of age could be his match" and things like that were the only words that Ritz heard for a long time until, so it was not a surprise for him when Eric told him that he was going to invite his friend to team up with him in the secret realm exploration.

If Ritz has learned something about Eric after getting to know him was that he wouldn't take a "no" as an answer so he left him do whatever he wanted, contrary to all his expectations the friend Eric spoke so much about turned to be just like he was described, Aster didn't bother to hide his real age from Eric nor his cultivation realm but Ritz didn't believe Eric until he met him a few moments ago.

"11 years old, early stage of the star formation realm… what a monster", that was Ritz new impression of Eric's friend.

Not even that, since the very first moment Ritz caught a glimpse of the woman that Eric told him was the mother of his friend, he felt a slight bit of her pressure and he was sure she was way stronger than him, even the patriarch of the barbarian heart sect who reached the middle stage of the sea of knowledge realm didn't make him feel so intimidated, so his supposition was that Lilia was a peak sea of knowledge cultivator.

Of course, he could only feel it because Lilia on purpose let out a bit of her pressure directed only at Ritz, as a warning "don't look down on my precious son", however she made sure to only reveal at most a sea of knowledge realm prowess, to not cause too much of a ruckus.

And it worked, on the other hand there was also another good reason as to why Ritz didn't think that Lilia was above the sea of knowledge realm, the Atria family who were in charge of this stellar system didn't allow any non-native genesis manifestation cultivator or above to enter low ranked star clusters to keep a relatively good public order and how could have he known that he was in presence of the princess of the Drage family who ruled the whole heavenly quadrant.

On Ritz defense, only the rulers of the stellar systems knew about what the surname Drage represented, so it was normal for someone who belonged to a hegemonic force of a low rank star cluster like him to make such a supposition.

Ritz came out of his daze when they finally left the atmosphere of the azure sky planet, all the spirit formations engraved in the floor and walls of the space ship glowed in a dim blue light for a moment before returning to their "inactive state", one of the crew members stood from his position and reported.

"All the parameters are okay sir!!!".

Ritz nodded and everyone returned to their respective positions, back on Aster's room a little spirit lamp turned on to indicate that everyone was free to leave their rooms and enjoy the view or rest in the common area.

Maybe because they were born in a world where humans can fly but none of the girls were too interested in seeing the outer space at least not as much as Aster so they stayed in the room while he walked to the common area to look through the reinforced windows on the lateral walls of the space ship.

Aster was marveled at the scenery he was seeing, a vast predominantly black space, with an innumerable number of lights of different colors that represented various types of celestial bodies, back on earth going to space was reserved to only a very specific group of people so it never crossed his mind that someday he will be traveling to another planet in a space ship.

He suddenly laughed a bit at himself, "well, I also never imagined I would have a so many girls as my lovers and… that both my mother and sister will be among them", he thought.

Rya who was observing from the mind space added.

"Don't forget the book twins and me ".

Aster smiled.

"Unfortunately, on these past years even when I used the information network of both the Rein and Asher families thanks to Kail and Eric, I wasn't able to find any of the materials on the list you gave me… but very soon I will be migrating to a better star cluster, so I hope you are prepared for a good spiritual love making session hahaha".

Rya had a complex smile on her face.

"You pervert master, instead of thinking on that focus on surpassing your star tribulation… so I can tell you more about us", she though before answering.

"Good luck, any of those materials are really hard to come by nowadays though".

"Fortune favors those who have a goal to reach no matter what, and making love to a beauty like you surely falls within those parameters", Aster thought.

After admiring the outer space for almost one hour one of the crew members advised him to return to his room because they will be arriving at Zartia soon, he returned to the room and noticed that the girls were previously having some kind of secret conversation, Alice was smiling from ear to ear while Aria didn't look too convinced about whatever they were speaking before he entered the room.

Lilia stood from the bed and hugged Aster.

"My darling will be having his first adventure as a cultivator, how about mommy forces the entrance of the secret realm to go with you?".

Aster had weird expression on his face, if she said it then it was probably doable for her.

Alice listened her interests being "threatened", and she immediately argued.

"Hey, that's not fair mom, besides is only a secret realm on a low-level planet, there will be plenty of things to do together as family later but… I have been waiting for this during three years!!!".

Aster nodded.

"Sis is right mom, this will be a good experience for the future, on any case the rest of the competitors are only in the star formation realm, so bringing you along will be an overkill, mm to be honest only me and sis are already a bit too much".

Alice "stole" her brother from Lilia's arms and leaned her body against him.

"That's right we'll be the stronger pair of siblings and lovers that will exist ".

She might be saying it as a joke but it was true that on this three years Alice did make a big progress on her cultivation, 15 years old, on energy cultivation she has reached the peak of the star formation realm, regarding body cultivation she managed to achieve the body solidification, in fact she could have easily breakthrough to the stellar constellation realm but… she would not have been able to enter the secret realm with Aster so she on purpose delayed her advance and instead focused on body cultivation.

But Aria was not going to be left behind, since she awakened her body constitution she saw a huge difference in her cultivation speed, an 18 years old peak stellar constellation realm and although it took her a lot of trouble, she reached the spirit opening and that's how their rivalry started.

Since that moment Alice and Aria became training partners and up to this moment, they were tied on the number of matches won, Alice was completely focused on offensive which allowed her to win the firsts fights but after that, Aria learned how to use her ice for crowd control and after that none of them managed to come out on top from that point onwards.

Lilia sighed.

"Fine, it will be only a couple of weeks at most…".

Although she said that, it was clear as day that she was not convinced at all by leaving her son separate from her for "such a big amount of time", unlike when he was staying in Ghaleria, communication talismans would not work to contact people outside a secret realm.

Aster patted Alice's shoulder and she stopped hugging him, he dragged Lilia into his embrace and pressed his lips against hers.

"It won't be too much time, take care of yourself and Aria while I'm not here, okay?".

Lilia kissed him repeatedly.

"Okay, but you will have to make up for it once this is over ".

"Mm?", Aster felt a small tug on the left corner of his sleeve.

He turned his head and saw Aria giving him a gaze that reminded him the one of a little puppy asking for attention.

While having his right arm wrapped around his mother's waist, he extended his left arm which Aria immediately accepted, since he won't be seeing them for some time a good farewell was needed.

"Hnnn", both Lilia and Aria let out a little moan, feeling Aster's hands fondling their asses.

He sealed Aria's mouth with a kiss which would have been longer but he had to stop because he heard Eric's voice outside of the room.

"Brother we are here!!!".

Both Lilia and Aria accommodated her clothes which were a bit messy and as if they previously discussed it, each one of them hugged one of his arms.

Alice wanted to complain but Aria stopped her with a single phrase.

"You will have him for yourself for a long time so right now, he is ours".

Alice could only accept her defeat this time.

"Humph, these two agreed with my idea but now they are acting as if I was the villain here, when we come out, I want to see their jealous faces when they see my brother being more affectionate with me ".

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Aster felt a slight shock below his feet which meant that the space ship finally landed, they left the room and Eric who was waiting for them outside guided them to the exit, this time the ship was not floating and a ladder was deployed on the side of the ship so that everyone could go down.

Once they left the ship Aster started curiously looking at his surroundings, while it may not be so amazing for others, for him, a once normal human visiting another planet was a big achievement, he internally laughed while imagining how would have been if this was his past life, "I would have had a parade only dedicated to me or something like that".

This little episode ended when Ritz approached them with some familiar people, besides him it was the old man that left a good impression in Aster's opinion, Wieland Kraft who was leading some guys from the Kraft family, of course Ward was not among them since he was still under the effect of the soul oath.

Speaking of Wieland for a moment it was hard for him to believe that the young man in front of him was the little kid from back then, he left the azure sky planet one year after Arthur's birthday and at that point Aster was still more or less visiting Ghaleria from time to time and he didn't have his current appearance so it was normal for Wieland to be surprised by it.

Like always Eric was the first one to speak.

"Uncle Wieland, it's been some time since I attended the auction house, how have you been!!!".

Wieland smiled.

"I'm fine, but not as much as you, your voice is finally adapting to your look".

Even Aster couldn't hold laughing a bit, it was true that the only thing that changed about Eric in these three years was that his voice didn't sound ad childish as before.

Ritz nodded.

"Brother Wieland is right, the only thing this brat has improved is his voice tone hahaha".

Apparently although the Kraft didn't have the support of another force, their long story with the Asher family made the barbarian heart sect treat them as allies too.

"So basically, it's the Asher and Kraft families against the Rein and the Wolfstein families… and on the other battle field, the Barbarian Heart sect against the Sand Mountain sect", Aster thought.

Fate was a mysterious thing, even if Lilia didn't come to this star cluster, knowing Isaac he would have still made the same deal with the Rein family to get rid of the Asher and Kraft families, the resources that were supposed to be on the secret realm were too tempting for the any of the patriarchs of the four families to ignore, since they might be the key for them to finally advance to the star tribulation realm.

Ritz's expression suddenly changed to a serious one, he slowly positioned himself in front of the whole group, of course since he knew Lilia was stronger than him, he paid more attention to Eric and the Kraft family group.

After a moment Aster saw some of his old "friends" approaching them, between them he recognized Isaac, Valentine and Karla along with some random five guys who he supposed were members of the Wolfstein family, besides them there was Kray and Kail next to each other and a middle-aged man that looked like an older version of Kray, Kalas Rein the current patriarch of the Rein family.

Isaac was surprised to see Lilia and her children here but he hid his surprise as if he suddenly thought of something.

Unlike Isaac, what actually surprised Aster was that Kayla was holding hands with a tanned guy using an outfit that clearly meant "I'm from the sand mountain sect", "now that is for sure an interesting development we got here", he thought.

Soon the two groups were in front of each other, Kalas Rein took the initiative to speak.

"It's been a long time since I have seen people from the Asher and Kraft families, I hope your two families have been doing well…. however, I don't think it's polite from those old two patriarchs to no come here personally, considering we have a respected guest visiting "our" Rodia star cluster, don't you agree elder Adil?".

A middle-aged man with some extra kilograms who was wearing flashy clothes took a few steps ahead, he quickly inspected the people in front of him, his eyes stopped for a second to look at Lilia but Aster immediately stood in front of her, since his body grew up, although Lilia was still taller than him, the difference was at most of eight to ten centimeters so he could perfectly block that guy's line of view.

Adil's eyes narrowed a bit, but before he said anything, Ritz interrupted him.

"The other two patriarchs couldn't come due to a variety of reasons, however seeing my brother Wieland is the same as seeing the patriarch from the Kraft family, as for the Asher family I consider Eric my own nephew so I don't see any problems".

Adil smiled, before saying.

"And who might you be, my friend?", he asked.

Ritz extended his hand to offer a handshake.

"I'm Ritz Karze, an elder from the Barbarian heart sect, the hegemon of the Veluri star cluster".

Isaac and Kalas who were previously all smiles immediately changed their expressions to serious ones.

Adil accepted the handshake.

"What a coincidence, I'm Adil Orkel, an elder from the Sand Mountain sect, the hegemon of the Erimos star cluster… who would have thought that I would meet a fellow mortal transcending realm cultivator here".

Adil walked towards the guy that was holding hands with Kayla Rein and place his hand on one of his shoulders, before saying.

"Now that I have presented myself, and since everyone here seems to know each other, let me present you my proud, my adopted son Amir Orkel".

Amir smiled.

"It's a pleasure, I'm Amir Orkel, Kayla's fiancé".

Although he looked as if he was not paying too much attention to anyone, Aster could feel the malicious intent behind that relaxed smile.

"First that Adil clown, and now a snake from the desert, seems like Isaac attracts a lot of idiots as allies", he thought.

Now that the presentations were over, the two groups parted to where the entrance to the secret realm was about to open, on the way Lilia was completely stuck to Aster, although she ignores other men gazes at her she was really happy seeing her son stand in front of her.

"The number one in my darling's heart ", she kept repeating to herself.

Aster could feel his mother's happiness overflowing, to be honest he would have done the same for any of his girls but there was no point in spoiling her mood, "a happy wife is the same as a happy man", he thought.

After almost 10 minutes of walking through a forest they reached a plain, where there we no trees, a completely open space with only a weird rock circle in the middle, above of the circle the space was visibly waving which was an indication that a secret realm was about to open.

Aster noticed that on every rock that conformed the circle there were a lot of symbols that looked like runes, but he couldn't recognize any of them, he turned to see his mother with a questioning expression.

Lilia frowned her eyebrows for a moment before shaking her head and whispering in his ears.

"They are definitely some kind of spirit runes, I can vaguely understand that their purpose is to stabilize space but they are different to the runes I know… when I secretly visited this place the space was waving like right now, that's how everyone can identify an entrance to a secret realm but the rocks around it were not like this".

Aster nodded.

The two groups stopped a couple of meters away from the rock circle to wait until the entrance was completely open which happened almost immediately, the space stopped waving and after a couple of seconds a circular hole surrounded by some kind of mist and some electricity appeared.

Without anyone noticing Lilia inspected it with her spirit sense to be sure it was safe and after some contemplation she nodded at her son.

On the other hand, Adil snapped his fingers and one of the five guys brought a skinny man of about 20 years old with a collar on his neck which was attached to a long chain, before anyone reacted, he pushed the man through the portal and after some time he pulled the chain back… the man was completely fine with the exception that it was a bit pale.

Adil smiled.

"Everything is clear, if no one has a complain then we will enter first".

Ritz turned to see if anyone had any objection, his gaze stopped at Aster for a moment but seeing that he didn't say anything, he simply shrugged.

"No objections".

Adil nodded and the team completely conformed of members from the Sand Mountain sect entered the portal before being followed by the Reins, Valentine and Amir.

Aster said goodbye to Lilia and Aria, Alice took over their place and hugged her brother's arm before they walked along with Eric towards the portal followed by Brig and Cade, Eric and his "followers" entered first, Aster stopped in front of the portal, he gave Adil a sharp gaze before also entering with Alice.

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Sometimes things don't go according to what one expects, for example Alice didn't hold onto Aster just because she wanted to be close to her brother, although that was the main reason, she also did it because they didn't want to separate while they were traveling through the space to the secret realm.

Unfortunately, it seems like the one who created the entrance didn't want people to enter in groups because the very moment they entered the portal Alice disappeared, Aster immediately reacted.

"Sis!!!", but when he was about to use the manifestation of the paragon body, everything changed, if he had to describe the rest of the travel since Alice disappeared, in one word it would be "horrible", everything was blurry, his body moved chaotically and there were so many changes in the illumination, that Aster's eyes eyes had no time to adapt before it changed again.

While he was being thrown around by the chaotic turbulences his feet suddenly touched ground, Aster took the opportunity to use the paragon body, golden light surrounded him before a pair of giant golden armored arms appeared at his sides, they immediately buried their hands on the ground.

Aster felt dizzy, it took him a moment to recover his balance, although he couldn't manifest the whole paragon body both of the arms were attached at the golden light that covered him so now that the hands were firmly holding to the ground he managed to stabilize.

Once his vision returned to normal, he could finally see the true appearance of the inside of the portal, it was a grayish tunnel, there were big and small pieces of land floating around, the tunnel forced you to keep moving forward, luckily the stone in which he landed was big enough to not be easily dragged by the "flow" of the tunnel so he was moving slower than before.

Now that his mind was clear, Aster gritted his teeth.

"Who was the idiot who created this stupid portal!!!", he thought.

After taking a second to calm down he started contemplating what happened, when he entered the portal, he managed to see Eric and he didn't have to go through the same thing as him, so the most logic answer was that there was a rule against people maintaining "together" while traveling through the portal.

"If Alice has even the slightest wound due to this stupid portal, I swear that I'm going to destroy the idiot who created it".

Rya woke up from her meditation when she felt Aster's erratic emotions.

"Calm down, it was nothing harmful or I would have detected it, you were just separated from her and sent to a different spatial tunnel but the destination is the same… I'm sorry I was to immersed in my meditation".

Aster shook his head.

"No, this is not your fault, I… just lost my control for a moment".

During these three years, he has noticed that his temperament has become more explosive when it comes to things that affect any of his girls, when he asked Lilia if there were records of something like this happening, she told him that it was normal for young Drage males to be short tempered and licentious but not the point that Aster was showing.

"Hurry up and complete the evolution… stupid Drage bloodline", according to Rya all this will end when his bloodline finishes its evolution.

After a couple of minutes floating, he could finally see the end of the tunnel, but it was not a good way to enter the secret realm, what was on the other side of the exit was… the sky.

"Who was the idiot that designed this death trap!!!", he shouted before using the arms of the paragon body to propel himself, like a rocket he left the space tunnel and appeared high in the sky, normally you would need doubt if a travel of only about 15 minutes would transport you to a different world but this time it was really easy to see… because the sky had a light green color".

Feeling the wind on his face, Aster turned to see downwards and he smiled, there were more or less 2000 meters of free fall distancing him from the ground, well more accurately it was a huge forest within a valley and a river crossing the whole place.

"I'm so going to beat the guy who created this portal".

Rya laughed.

"Judging by the fact that the secret realm just opened for the first time and none of those families had a clue of what is inside, then the creator of the portal is probably death already".

Aster sighed.

"Whatever, there will be a tomb less in the world once I leave this place then".

Only those at the stellar constellation realm and above could fly and the entrance of the secret realm only allowed star formation cultivators to enter so him appearing at such a high height and without the ability to fly was on the best case the origin of a lot of broken bones and more realistically a horrible death due to the impact.

But again, things tend to not go accord to what one expects, little exploding sounds echoed through the sky, similar to thunders, the problem was that there was no sign of storm clouds nor any signs of rain, instead there was a black-haired young man… gliding through the sky, while his image continuously flashed.

Aster was smiling, he had a battle prowess that surpassed his realm by a lot but being tied to only move on the ground was a huge limitation, after all what is the use of having the strength to kill your enemy if you can't reach him?

Although you could start flying at the stellar constellation realm, only by reaching the star tribulation realm one would be able to freely soar through the skies, that's when Aster thought "what would happen if I move at a high speed but at a high height instead of the in the ground".

When he told his mother about his idea she answered, "star tribulation cultivators move through the sky, law integration cultivators move through the space", movement techniques existed but all of them had one thing in common, your feet had to have a strong supporting point, one that resisted the huge tension of a body moving at a high speed.

You might think that those who have earth element affinity can maybe create a floating stone to step on to imitate flying, unfortunately that is impossible, earth element cultivators below the genesis manifestation realm can temporarily make throw thinks like rocks and earth at an opponent but not because they float, it's more as if an "invisible hand" threw it instead of them.

The solution… the paragon body, more accurately a piece of the manifestation of the paragon body combined with a movement technique called "lightning step", Aster could freely manipulate the paragon body, the arms floated after all, of course seeing a huge golden arm floating in the sky would for sure give away your position.

And that's when the thing he learned when he fought Alessia, came in handy, "partial manifestation" and "compression", in other words if you were to carefully see the soles of Aster's feet, you would see two little golden platforms appearing any time he took a "step" while being in the sky.

The paragon body compressed was stronger than the normal manifestation, just like a spring and combining that with the fast speed acquired thanks to lightning step… Aster managed to do something no one was able to, freely move in the sky while being below the star tribulation realm.

While Aster was quickly descending from the sky, he heard Rya's proud voice in his head.

"I swear, you always do reckless things but… the results are amazing ", she said.

Aster nodded.

"This "lightning trail", was really hard to master but, I'm really enjoying the fruits of all my efforts".

He couldn't help but smile while the scenes of him not stepping on the paragon body and falling just to be saved by Lilia, or the many times he lost control of his movements and ended up clashing against a tree.

"One year to polish the concept and other one to train until I mastered it to became usable in combat", he thought.

Still using such a refined technique used quite a bit of spirit energy, Aster didn't have any trouble with the consumption rate thanks to his abnormal both gathering speed and the capacity of his Dantian, basically lightning trail was a perfect fit for him and only him.

After descending from the sky for almost one minute Aster landed on top of a big tree, he was still recovering from the chaotic ride he had in the dimensional tunnel so he wanted to stop for a moment before starting to look for Alice.

He took out a bottle of water and drank all of it, all that he could see even on the top of such a tall tree was forest and a river.

Aster closed his eyes for a moment, he focused on Pollux until he felt Alice's presence, it was far from his current position but according to what he could currently see, if he went all the way up the river, he would find Alice.

This was something he learned not too long ago, since every star was linked to one of the girls then, he would always be able to feel them no matter where they were.

"Just wait a bit sis, I will be there soon", he thought before using lightning trail again.

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While Aster was "running" through the sky, he tried to look for any signs of people in the near by areas of the forest, but after advancing more than 10 kilometers not only he didn't see anyone else… the only thing in his line vison were trees.

"Where in the hell did that portal dropped me", he thought.

After kept using lightning trail for almost one hour to the point where he lost count of the distance he had travelled, until something caught his interest, unlike before the forest tone changed from a beautiful intense green to a sickening yellowish one.

He stopped moving and just kept stepping on the little platforms under his feet to contemplate what was about 50 meters from his current position, Alice was sitting over a rock ignoring her surroundings, as if she was waiting for someone.

Aster descended in front of her and just like always, when she saw her brother, she threw herself at him, while she hugged his left arm, she leaned her head against his shoulder before saying.

"I knew you will soon find me".

Aster smiled.

"What a pathetic imitation".

Alice frowned her eyebrows.

"What are you talking about…".

She couldn't keep talking because Aster suddenly grabbed her neck and lifted her from the ground, with a death serious face he slowly spoke.

"This little trick might have worked if it wasn't against me, unfortunately you chose the wrong target… let me tell you a little secret, the girl you are trying to imitate has cuddled with me almost every night since I have use of reason, so at this point I perfectly know the rhythm of her heart beating and how it changes when she is close to me".

Aster walked back to the stone where "Alice" was sitting before he descended from the sky, he sat down while still keeping a firm grip around her neck before continuing.

"But that was not the only thing that gave you away, I perfectly remember the fragrance of my own sister's body since I have tasted it so many times, you did manage to act as clingy as her but Alice will always aim for the right arm instead of the left one, it has been like that since the first time she met Aria, should I continue with the list?".

"Alice", was having trouble to breath due to Aster's hand applying force on her neck, at some point she stopped trying to undo his grip and simply took out a knife and stabbed him on the neck.

clang*

The sound of metal colliding combined with sparks produced by friction made "Alice's" eyes widen, she looked downwards to the place where the knife should be stabbing him but… the knife simply bent itself against his neck.

Aster shook his head.

"Just because you are at the stellar constellation realm, doesn't mean you are capable of hurting me… although I knew you were not my Alice, I was still a bit hesitant about what I'm about to do, but you helped me overcome that last piece of doubt".

Suddenly black tree roots surrounded Aster but before they approached him, blue flames light up with him as the center.

"Ahhhrghhh".

"Alice", screamed due to the pain of being burned alive, her voice changed from the one of Alice to a guttural and hoarse tone, the black roots were also burned until only a thin dust remained, Aster stopped Rigel's flame from spreading and the flames were absorbed back by his body.

He saw the thing that he was grabbing by the neck, now that it was not disguised as Alice its true form became visible, it was some kind of tree female monster, the best reference will be a treant, but unlike what Aster knew from games and movies back on earth, this one was black and it had some kind of black smoke coming from its body, which gave off an eerie disgusting feeling.

"Rigel's flame is not hot, so that smoke is a natural trait from whatever this thing is", he thought.

The thing asked in an exhausted voice.

"W-who the hell are you?".

Aster smiled.

"Someone who loves his sister a bit too much I guess, but let's not get too much into that, I will make the questions here".

"What is this place, what is the strongest realm someone has reached here?".

The thing remained silent for a moment but as soon as it saw Rigel's flame appearing again it screamed.

"W-waitttt, I will answer… we are in a planet called Prasil and this is the Luonto continent, I don't know too much about the human's current civilization but the last time I left this forest, the human who called himself king was at the peak of the star vertex realm".

Aster frowned his eyebrows.

"Star vertex realm? what is that", he asked.

The creature was surprised.

"How can you not know… perhaps you are not a human also, then why are you attacking me!!! aghh".

Aster tightened his grip to stop her tantrum.

"I have a really good smell sense and you reek of blood and death, I guess you trick people who pass by this place to eat them or something like that, normally I couldn't care less since your victims are not my friends nor familiars but you tried to kill me… using the appearance of someone dear to me and that will be your end".

"Besides you already know I'm not from this place, you did say "I knew you will find me soon", after all".

The creature didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she couldn't read the mind, her ability to imitate others depended completely on feelings, when she saw the young man in front of her floating, she got the image of the girl along with, preoccupation, love and longing so she decided to use that to consume that young man, who would have thought she would become the prey instead of the predator.

"What's more this human didn't seem to be a native of this continent since he didn't recognize the might of a star vertex realm cultivator", the creature resigned herself.

"I know you won't spare me but since I answered your questions at least give me a painless end".

Aster shook his head.

"We are still not done here, tell me the direction of the closest human city near this forest".

The creature pointed at west.

"Just follow that direction and you will reach a city".

Aster nodded, his hand covered in golden light for a moment and the head of the creature separated from the rest of its body which withered away soon after that.

"Unlike being refined by Rigel's flame, annihilation is instant so there is no time to feel pain, well… if that's how I want it to be", he thought.

Aster walked away before using lightning trail to leave this place as fast as possible, even if he couldn't get too much information from that creature, he was sure of one thing, there were human natives here and they were stronger than the star formation realm which meant that this place was not a secret realm with an inheritance from ancient times but… a completely different world.

Luckily Alice's relative position was also at west so they would not need to change direction once Aster found her.

About 200 kilometers from Aster's current position there was a scene of devastation, here the forest was green again instead of yellow or at least that's how it was supposed to be but right now a big part of the place was burned down, little rests of black flames remained burning what looked like vines and in the middle of all this there was a beautiful young lady with red yes resting.

"I really hate this secret realm, first I got separated from him and now these stupid vines keep attacking me for no reason!!!".

Alice was feeling exasperated, she has been moving through the forest for almost half a day and not only she hasn't found an exit but at some point, these vines started attacking her out of nowhere and no matter how much she destroyed them, cut them or burn them with her destruction attribute they kept coming after her.

She stood up seeing another wave of vines appearing around her, she gritted her teeth before shouting.

"Once Aster is here, I would like to see these stupid vines reappearing after being reduced to nothingness humph".

And thus, she started her 28th round of walking through the forest and fighting against the vines.

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The sun of this planet was about to set down when Aster saw the battle signs that Alice left behind.

"I wonder what is the period of rotation of this planet, it was more or less noon when we entered the portal and I have only been looking for Alice for a couple of hours and yet the sun is about to set", he thought.

After Alice's incident Rya decided lo stop meditating for the time being, especially since now that this place wasn't a closed space for a secret realm, but a completely different world no one knew what kind of dangers might be lurking.

"The rotation is the same as the azure sky planet 24 hours, but your sense of time is distorted inside a dimensional tunnel, although it seemed like minutes… you probably spent almost a day traveling in the tunnel", she said.

Aster nodded.

"Well, that would explain why I feel so tired… and that makes me want to find Alice even faster, she probably left the tunnel before me so she has been alone in this stupid place for at least half a day or something like that".

He doubted for a second before asking.

"Rya, do you know what was that thing that tried to trick me before?".

"No, although it looked like a member of the wood race, unlike the ones I have seen before that one was not green but dark as if it was corrupted by something but it was capable of thinking and speaking so I don't know what it was… also wood race members are pacific and definitely don't eat flesh or blood".

Aster shook his head.

"It's okay, whatever it is, if it wants to harm me or any of you… the result will be the same anyway".

Rya smiled, during the past three years she witnessed Aster becoming more decisive, although he still had some troubles controlling the warlike and lascivious nature that his bloodline tried to impose on him, he had never been carried away by it.

"No matter what… his priorities are always us, that is something I really like about you", she thought.

The conversation was interrupted because after following the path of destruction left behind, Aster finally caught a glimpse of Alice, she was fighting against some kind of vines that were appearing from below the ground.

With a flash he descended from the sky in front of Alice, he summoned a wall of Rigel's flames around both of them but contrary to what he expected the vines didn't keep their attack.

Alice was both happy that her brother found her and angry because the vines suddenly didn't want to fight, when even after all the times she destroyed them, they just kept coming again and again.

Seeing that the vines were not attacking anymore, Aster lowered the wall of flames but he didn't dispel them completely, Alice approached him and hugged his right arm before she kissed him.

"You sure took your time to find me", she said.

Aster smiled.

"You have no idea… by the way how many times I did it with you last night?".

"Mm?", Alice was a bit confused by his question but she took it as a compliment.

"I lost count after the 7th one, why? It has been less than one day and you already miss your big sister's embrace that much".

Aster pressed his lips against hers, before wrapping his right arm around her waist, this was his Alice.

"I did miss you but that was not the only reason to ask that, you see…".

He proceeded to tell his sister all what happened after they got separated in the dimensional tunnel, including the fact that some kind of creature tried to imitate her and that this was not a secret realm but another planet on who know what star cluster or maybe even another stellar system, as well as the difference in the time at which they arrived here.

Alice didn't seem to care about anything with the exception that something tried to harm her brother using her appearance.

"I'm already hating this planet; Rya doesn't know where we are?", she said.

Many things changed in the past three years, since Aster learned more about how to control the mind space, he managed to bring Rya's voice out from it, so even if they haven't seen her in person, all the girls already more or less knew her and have talked with her before.

Aster shook his head.

"No, in fact she didn't know what was the creature that attacked me".

Listening Alice's question, Rya answered.

"A lot of my information it's from a really long time ago, some new races appear while others perish as the time passes, I suggest you two to go to a place where information is sold, they will have the most important news of this planet and others that surround it".

Alice stretched her body while leaning against her brother.

"Sounds like a plan to me, it's getting late, should we continue or do we pass the night here instead?".

Aster let go of her for a moment before walking outside the circle of flames that was surrounding them in case the vines who were still near by suddenly decided to continue attacking.

He approached the vines and surprisingly they didn't attack him, although they moved around him as if they were evaluating him, for some reason they weren't hostile against Aster.

Alice was trying to figure out why those things that kept bugging her, didn't seem to mind her brother, she thought that maybe when she landed, she accidentally killed one of them or something like that.

,m Aster called his sister so Alice left the circle and contrary to what she expected the vines didn't attack her which confirmed his theory.

"When I was using lightning trail, I saw some spots where the forest wasn't green but yellow, it was in one of those spots where that creature attacked me, unlike that thing, these vines are completely green"

"Rya told me that the creature seemed to be corrupted, so my guess is that since I killed the "invader", this vines who seem to act as some kind of self defense for this place… see me as an ally or at least doesn't consider me a threat".

Alice snorted.

"I didn't do anything to be attacked, this is discrimination humph".

Aster was amused by her reaction.

"Perhaps I wasn't attacked by them since I only stopped for a couple of seconds over one three in the green area while the rest of the time, I travelled in the sky instead of walking in the forest unlike you", he said.

Aster saw the sky and there were still a couple of hours until night completely falls and before he descended to reunite with Alice, he already saw signs of civilization at less than 100 kilometers from their current position.

"Let's get out of the forest, until we get more information about this world it's not a good idea to be adventuring, besides I'm tired so we need to find a place to rest".

Alice nodded; she was about to ask him to carry her like a princess so her brother could use lightning trail to leave the forest when the vines as if they understood what Aster said lowered themselves like saying "go up".

Aster saw his sister's dissatisfied expression and he smiled before dragging her along, they both rode on top of the vine and as expected once they were sitting down over it, the vine started advancing right on direction to the exit of the forest.

Although there was enough space for Alice to sit next to her brother, how could she miss the chance to tempt him, she of course sat on his lap while making sure her ass pressed against his thing.

Feeling his brother getting hard she smiled.

"Seems like this big boy missed me a lot too ", she said before leaning her back against Aster's chest, one of the changes in her brother she liked the most, was that he was as tall as her now, so she could sit on his legs and it would not look weird like when he looked as a young boy.

Aster wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her neck a couple of times before stopping.

"Be a good girl and wait until we find a place to stay, we will have some fun later, okay?".

Alice turned her head and kissed him, although her intention was to excite her brother, she ended up feeling horny too.

"Fine, on any case you are going to give me lots of love since I'm the only one here".

Rya who was seeing Alice shamelessly moving her hips to rub her ass against Aster sighed.

"This pair of perverted siblings are going to make a lot of noise tonight again, whatever once he reaches the mortal transcending realm… he will make up for it", she thought.

The vine suddenly stopped and Aster frowned his eyebrows, they were at the outer Area of the forest but there were some people camping here, the problem was that… there were some cages besides the tents and he recognized one of the imprisoned people, it was one of Eric's followers from the Barbarian heart sect, Cade".

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To be honest if it was not for the fact that Cade was locked up in a cage in front of him, Aster wouldn't have interfered with whoever was camping here, however a confrontation would have happened anyway because the vine that was giving them a ride wasn't exactly something people could ignore.

There were only three tents in total, two of them opened and some men came out of them, visibly there were no differences between the people from the azure sky planet and this people so they were probably native humans.

As Aster expected they actually spoke the same language as them, it was not so surprising considering Lilia once told him that almost all the races no matter where they lived, based their languages on an ancient one called "Rania", although there might be some minor differences, in this case the natives of this world seemed to have a weird accent.

While looking at the vine below Aster's feet, a bearded man took the initiative to speak.

"Who are you, we found this safe spot first, if you want to camp here then you will have to pay, we accept spirit stones, spirit treasures or…".

At first Aster let the man speak because he wanted to know the currency of this place, now that the bearded man mentioned spirit stones, he only wanted to know why the captured Cade.

He interrupted the bearded man.

"Why did you capture that guy", he said while pointing at Cade who was quietly watching everything from the cage.

"Huh?", the bearded man was surprised by Aster's way of speaking.

"So, you are also not from Luonto, like that guy… he is a cage because he suddenly landed over one of our tents, when we wanted to interrogate him, he tried to escape and stabbed one of us in the process so we put him in a cage to sell him as a slave to pay for his crimes".

Aster smiled, he noticed that the five men stole some glances at the third tent which was still closed, he snapped his fingers and the three tents exploded in blue fire, not even a second later a woman's screaming voice made its way to everyone's ears.

"Kyaaahhh, what is this this fire looks so cool and it's not hot!!!".

The bearded guy was about to draw his sword when the oldest looking of the five stopped him before bowing his head and saying.

"Esteemed superior, please don't harm our young miss, we won't lie anymore, that guy in the cage did land over one of the tents but he didn't stab anyone, still he was dressing as an assassin and the tent he destroyed was our young lady's one so…".

Without dispelling the flames around the tents, Aster used them to destroy the cage, Cade was actually a bit afraid of the flames accidentally burning him but he didn't suffer any harm, after being freed from the cage he walked until he was standing next to the Vine.

Aster asked.

"Are they saying the truth?".

Cade took a few seconds to consider things, for a moment he thought of telling Aster to finish them all since they were truly planning to sell him, but to be honest, it was also partially his fault for not explaining himself properly, he appeared out of nowhere with a knife in his hand over the tent of some kind of noble girl so of course a misunderstanding was bound to happen.

"Yes, they aren't lying, I'm angry because they locked me up but that's not a reason to kill them, since they were only doing their job", he said.

Rigel's flames disappeared revealing that the tents weren't damaged at all, contrary to what the five guys thought, Aster now had a quite precise control over the flames so this was nothing for him.

The bearded man and other two hurried to the enter the third tent, after a moment they returned while escorting a blonde young girl in a sundress which she was probably using as a pajama, the other two men joined them to make a formation so the girl was in the middle protected by all of them.

The older one spoke again.

"I hope you don't take it personally, as guards our mission is to protect our young lady… even if you might be stronger than us".

The girl's blue eyes glowed when she saw up close that Aster and Alice were riding on top of a vine.

"Uncle Marco, have you gone senile already? they are being protected by the forest so at the least they aren't bad people", the girl pushed away her guards before presenting herself.

She rose the sides of her dress as a noble lady would do.

"My name is Kana Millefiore, the daughter of the Archduke Robert Millefiore, it's a pleasure to know someone who has gotten the blessing of the forest!!!".

Alice had a weird expression in her face, "of course the first probably important person we meet in this stupid planet and… it has to be a girl", she thought.

Aster could feel Alice's gaze on his back and he didn't know whether he should laugh or cry, "sis, she might be cute and all but I'm not a womanizer, you know?", he said in a low voice which only Alice could hear.

It was quite obvious that Kana wasn't just any random girl, she had long blonde hair, her eyes were blue as sapphires and her pale well preserved skin was a clear sign that she hasn't spent time working under the sun not even once, basically a young noble lady in all the mean of the word.

Alice tightened her hug around her brother's arm before replying.

"Says the one who didn't even let his own mother nor big sister out of his harem, humph".

Rya nodded in the mind space.

"You might not be a womanizer but you are definitely a pervert", she added.

Aster sighed, "these two have become quite close in these three years", he thought before answering to Kana.

"It's a pleasure, you can call me Aster and this is my sister Alice… that guy isn't an assassin or something like that, he is the companion of one of my friends, we are not from this place and we got separated while travelling".

Kana smiled.

"He didn't try to harm me so I don't have a problem if you know him, judging by your way of speaking you are not from our Luonto continent so you might not know but… those blessed by the forest have a high status here".

Kana exchanged gazes with the old guard Marco which made him sigh.

"Young lady… this case is an exception, in the future please leave us behind and run if we meet someone who outpowers us".

"Yeeei!!! I will go to change my clothes and then we can drink some tea", Kana returned to her tent without saying anything else while Marco spoke to Aster.

"Our young lady is quite energetic but she is a good girl, please don't take it personally".

Aster shook his head.

"I don't know what status does someone "blessed by the forest" have here, but I don't like too many formalities so just take it as if I'm a normal person you just met", he said.

Marco was surprised, "perhaps this young man is not like the ones I have met before", he thought.

The rest of the guards decided to stand still around the tents while Marco took out a table and three chairs, Aster and Alice sat and after a moment Kana now wearing a blue dress sat in front of them, Marco stood still behind her while Cade no other option than to do the same.

Alice was curious about that "blessed by the forest" thing that Kana mentioned a lot of times so she took the initiative to ask.

"What does be blessed by the forest mean, has it something to do with the fact that the vine helped us to move through the forest?".

Kana poured some tea on three cups; she took the first sip to show good will as it is traditionally done between nobles.

"It's related, those are guardian vines, they attack all the things that seem to be harmful for the ancient forest, you probably noticed that there were some spaces were the trees and other vegetation were yellow or maybe even black… those are extremely dangerous zones where corrupted beings live, they contaminate the ground and drain the vitality of the area until there is nothing left".

Aster took a sip of his cup, the tea was actually quite good, it had a sweet but gentle taste, it reminded him the green tea from earth.

Kana smiled seeing that he seemed to enjoy the tea she prepared, she also took out some kind of little cookies before continuing.

"The title of "blessed by the forest" is how we refer to those people who have defeated at least a middle disaster level corrupted creature thus earning the approval of the ancient forest, being helped by the guardian vines is a one of the signs of a blessed one".

As if she remembered something she added.

"I forgot you aren't from Luonto, corrupted beings are classified as, Disgrace, Disaster and… Calamity, that being said a Calamity level has never existed before, thanks to the efforts of all the kingdoms and the blessed ones that exist and constantly purify them".

Aster couldn't ignore kana's words, the creature he killed was in what seemed to be the star constellation realm which is in the middle of the earthly realms, so a Disaster level creature could have the strength of an earth origin to a star tribulation cultivator.

Alice also thought of the thing that her brother killed and now she understood why the vines didn't attack him but she still was confused about why she got attacked.

"My brother defeated one of those things, one that tried to imitate me".

Marco's eyes widened; he interrupted the conversation.

"You killed the shape changing disaster!!!".

Aster nodded and he was surprised seeing the old guard crying, Marco took a moment to calm himself down before saying.

"That thing killed my little brother when we were exploring the outer area of the forest a long time ago, I'm stronger than it now but I had no chance to reach so deep within the forest because there are other corrupted creatures near that thing's area… thanks… really thank you, with this he can finally rest in peace".

The other guards listened to Marco's words; the bearded guy gave the old man a pat on the back before dragging him along with him to where the other guards were standing a couple of meters from Kana.

Aster saw Kana's eyes shining in admiration and he shook his head.

"I didn't do anything to be thanked for, that thing simply got in my way and that's why I destroyed it".

Kana doubted for a second before saying.

"Uncle Miles told me that uncle Marco was going to stay in the outer area of the ancient forest because the shape changing disaster sometimes comes out and goes to the town disguised, I secretly escaped and came here because I wanted to see the forest, now that there is no need to stay here we will be returning to the town, if you want why don't you stay with us, I bet uncle Marco wants to repay the favor anyway and I would love to hear how is the deepness of the ancient forest".

Aster thought it was not a bad idea, it was getting dark and who knows how many restrictions there might be in the entrance of the city considering all this corrupted creature thing, seeing that Alice didn't seem to oppose he accepted.

"We accept, but we need two rooms one for me and my sister and another one for Cade".

Kana had had a bright smile in her face.

"No problem, it is a house property of the Millefiore family so it has a lot of big rooms and an incredible front garden", she answered.

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Kana happily stood from her seat and told her guards that she invited Aster to the Millefiore mansion in the city, normally Marco would have argued with her because she as a young lady shouldn't invite a stranger to her house, not to mention it was a young man, but taking into account that it was someone recognized by the ancient forest and how he avenged his little brother how could he refuse.

"I don't have any problem young lady but… your father is already waiting for you there, I'm sorry I wasn't supposed to tell you but he contacted me a couple of hours ago".

Although she "escaped" from the mansion in the capital where she was stayng, of course her father noticed it, since Kana is his only daughter how could he not have someone tacking care of her from the shadows.

Kana didn't seem worried about it.

"Don't worry uncle Marco, I bet father will be happy to receive blessed ones like big brother Aster and big sister Alice in our house".

Alice felt a bit weird listening to her calling them brother and sister but it was not something bad, Kana was probably 12-13 years old, "if not for our family peculiar "circumstances", I too would have behaved like that", she thought.

the guards dismantled the tents, and everyone advanced towards the city, on the way Aster spoke with Marco to get a little more information about this planet.

"We are not from Luonto, besides the level system Kana told me for the corrupted creatures, what are the realms used for cultivators here?", he asked.

Marco didn't pay too much attention to the fact that Aster was asking such a basic question, there were only two continents in Prasil but there are other nearby planets so he just assumed Aster was a native of one of them.

"In Prasil we classify cultivators by how much they have developed their star core, but before there is an unofficial realm called "core formation", which basically includes all those who haven't formed a core yet".

Aster nodded, those were probably the mortal realms he knew, after all you would only get your star nucleus once you reach the earth origin realm.

Marco continued.

"After that we have the neutral core realm, elemental core realm, core array realm, star alignment realm and finally the star vertex realm, our young lady's father, Archduke Robert is one of the few star vertex realm cultivators in Luonto besides the king of course".

"On the past our story says that there were cultivators on the human liberation realm and above but they died repelling calamity level corrupted creatures… but it has happened so much time that people nowadays believe it's just a myth, of course the royal family and those who reach a certain level know the truth".

Marco doubted for a second before saying.

"For what I could feel before, you are on the star alignment realm and since you seem to be so young, I guess you come from the hegemon family of some other planet, how did you end up in Prasil?".

Aster didn't bother to lie too much.

"We were exploring an abandoned ruin and we ended up being transported here, on the way I separated from my sister and other companions and I appeared in the forest, I looked for my sister and that's when that shape changing creature tried to trick me but I managed to kill it, you can imagine the rest of the story".

Marco smiled convinced of his story, there are so many things left behind by previous civilizations that are yet to be found, the ancient forest for example it's so vast and mysterious that no one has ever being able to explore more than the outer areas of it, so other planets probably had similar things.

Before they noticed the gates of a city were in front of them, unlike Ghaleria this Oak heart city had a really tall wall made out of some kind of metal, apparently corrupted creatures used to form a group and assault many places in Luonto before until the royal family used a lot of resources to build a strong protective wall on all the cities that bordered the ancient forest

Marco spoke with the city guards and after showing them a medal with a tree and a sword engraved on it, the heavy metal doors opened and they entered the city, while they walked the rest of the way Aster noticed that this city was more or less on the same level as Ghaleria with the exception that there were more stellar constellation cultivators, although here they were called core array cultivators.

Kana actually spoke with Alice almost all they way, until she saw that Aster was free, she excused herself and approached him before saying.

"What do you think big brother Aster? this Oak Heart city is the native place of my mom, although is under the management of the Millefiore family from which my father comes, the city lord is my maternal grandfather".

Seeing the happy smiling expression on Kana's face Aster felt tempted to pat her head, it was like looking to a small cute animal asking for attention.

"It looks like a good place to live, I thought that the people would be nervous and maybe afraid since they live near the forest but, that doesn't seem to be the case", he said.

Aster was telling the truth, along the way he saw children playing in the street without any worries, the streets were clean, there were guards here and there but the common people seemed to be comfortable with them around, some were even drinking or eating with them.

"Isaac should learn a couple of things from this place's city lord", he thought.

Kana nodded.

"I also love this city, my mom used to take me here at least once a week when a was younger, unlike the capital city people here are gentle and easy to get along".

Aster heard the sad nostalgic tone on her voice and he doubted for a moment before asking.

"Your mother, is she…".

Kana shook her head, noticing her words could be misunderstood.

"Sorry I didn't want to say weir things, she is still with us, it's just that she can't move too much due to her frail health but she lives in the place where we will be staying, to be far from the stressful atmosphere of the capital".

Aster smiled.

"I hope she gets well, perhaps the relaxed ambient of this city is what she needs", he said.

While Kana was enjoying talking with Aster they arrived at a big white mansion, she said that there was a big garden in the front but Aster was amazed the garden was huge, there were a lot of trees and other plants, flowers etc. even the borders of the mansion were made out of some kind of green brambles with the only exception of a metal fence protecting the entrance.

Marco used the same medal as before and the fence opened for them to enter, Alice was marveled at the variety of flowers that decorated the place, once they reached the house there was a middle-aged man waiting for them at the door.

Kanas guards kneeled down before saying.

"We greet the Archduke!!!".

Normally Robert is used to only see her daughter standing while the guards properly greet him according to his status so Aster and Alice stuck out like a sore thumb which made him silently evaluate them.

Aster was also evaluating the man in front of him, he had brown hair, his eye color was blue similar to Kana's one, he had beard and mustache, he was wearing pretty standard clothes, maybe because this was his house but what caught his attention was the little scars that were on the left side of his face, one on top of his eyebrow and another one over his upper lip, the aura around hum was the one of a upright and brave ruler.

"This guy is… on the star tribulation realm", thought Aster.

On the way here Aster already told Alice to naturally stand a bit behind him just in case, if things went south for some reason, he could use the paragon body as the first line of defense or use some of the talismans Lilia gave them, although they might not be enough to kill a star tribulation cultivator, defending against one was not a problem.

Kana ignored the gaze contest her father was having with Aster, she grabbed Aster's hand and dragged him along to meet Robert.

"Dad, he is big brother Aster, we met in the outer area of the forest, he has received the blessing of the forest because he defeated the shape changing disaster!!!".

Robert's expression relaxed after he listened to his daughter's explanation, now he understood why Marco allowed her to invite such an outstanding young man which seemed to be on the star alignment realm.

He extended his hand to offer a hand shake.

"I'm the Archduke Robert Millefiore, it's always a pleasure to meet such hard to find young blessed one".

Aster accepted the greet contrary to what he thought Robert didn't try to use force on the handshake, "perhaps being a blessed one while being young is something that earns the respect of others", he thought.

Marco was cold sweating while he was still kneeling, he knew the strong character of the Archduke, unlike the king who was in charge of political stuff, Robert was the one who defended the border from any dangers, his personality was forged in the heat of the battle, he only acted like a gentle man with his daughter and his wife… even the king listened to his advises.

"Luckily this young man is a blessed one, or the Archduke wouldn't have let him even enter the front garden", that was his conclusion.

Robert patted Aster's shoulder.

"Come in, since my daughter invited you then what kind of host would I be if I didn't offer a good banquet as welcome".

The guards stood up and opened the door of the house so Robert could enter followed by the rest.

Kana grabbed both Alice and Aster hands and dragged them along while saying.

"Let's meet my mother I bet she will be happy to see I made new friends!!!".

Robert sighed.

"That lass is quite strong for her age and that boy is… also quite good, perhaps they will be a good influence for Kana, on any case she seems really happy around them so I guess being friends with them it's not a bad thing", he thought after seeing his daughter acting as energetic as when his wife could spend all the day with her.

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Kana guided Aster and Alice upstairs, the mansion was quite big and they saw a lot of rooms along the way, including a library which caught Aster's attention but right now it was not the time for that, they arrived to a room which was protected by a pair of female guards.

The two women saw Kana and they opened the door to let them enter, Aster's sense of smell was quite sharp so he immediately detected a strong medicine fragrance in the air, the room was quite simple there was only a nightstand a little table with a pair of chairs and finally a small bed on which a woman was laying.

They approached the bed and the woman smiled when she noticed Kana.

"You little girl, your father came all they way from the capital to here because you wanted to see the forest", said the woman in a warm tone.

Kana sat on the border of the bed and grabbed her mother's hands.

"Don't worry about that mom, how do you feel today?".

The woman coughed a couple of times before answering.

"Not too bad, especially since both you and your father are here", she said.

Kana sighed, although her mother was not getting worse… she was not getting better also, she shook her little head and turned to see Aster.

"Mom let me present you my new friends, they have received the blessing of the forest, I just met them not too long ago but they are good people".

The woman also turned her head with a bit of difficulty to see Aster and Alice before saying.

"My name is Sarina Millefiore, please be patient with my daughter".

Sarina had long blonde hair similar to Kana but her eyes were green, her skin was a bit too pale maybe because she was sick but she didn't look bad, frail will be the correct way to describe her.

Alice smiled; she took the initiative to present herself before her brother this time.

"Alice Drage, don't worry Kana is a good girl so it's easy to get along with her".

Aster was about to speak when he noticed little black spots on Kana's mother hands, they gave him the same feeling as the creature that tried to imitate Alice.

Sarina noticed Aster's gaze.

"So, you are the blessed one? Still for you to recognize it so soon, I wonder how close you fought against a corrupted", she asked.

Aster shook his head.

"I didn't want to be rude, I'm Aster Drage… regarding your question I personally held the thing that tried to trick me".

Sarina's eyes widened a bit, she doubted for a moment.

"C-can you show me your hands?".

Aster noticed her worried expression and he did as she told.

Sarina carefully inspected his hands and she was surprised by the result.

"They are completely fine, you are probably not a native of Prasil or you wouldn't have touched a corrupted with your bare hands, my condition is the result of that".

Aster didn't really worry about that, his physic was really abnormal due to his bloodline and the paragon body, up to this day he hasn't gotten sick not even once, he even tested some strong poisons and they didn't work on him whether he applied them on his skin, drank them or if they were directly injected in his bloodstream.

There was other thing that might have protected him from being infected by whatever that black thing corrupting the creature was… Rigel's flame which could refine basically everything, when he fought against that thing little particles of the flame were floating in the air ready to activate in case of a surprise attack, this was the new method of training Aster was using to further improve his control.

Aster smiled, "a friend is better than just being a guest, I will just give them a hint, if she wants my help then we'll see how things go", he thought.

Helping others might sound wonderful and all that, but in reality, offering your help to people you just met without being asked to, is a source of problems, especially in cases where there is something important at risk, that's why instead of directly suggesting it he gave Sarina a little hint.

"I didn't know that, we are not from this planet, luckily I have a strong constitution since I was born with a unique attribute which also protects me, maybe that's why I wasn't affected".

Kana remembered the weird flames that covered her tent and she jumped a couple of times.

"He is right mom, big brother Aster's flames are awesome, they are not hot so you can touch them".

She turned to see Aster before saying, "can you show my mom your flames please!!!"

Aster smiled, a small blue flame appeared in his hand, Kana immediately used her finger to poke the flame, of course her finger went through it, after a moment she took it out and there weren't any burns nor any wounds on it.

Kana kept playing with Rigel's flames while Aster was thinking on other things, at some point Robert also entered Sarina's room and he saw his daughter joyfully playing with a blue flame, while his wife and the kid he met not too long ago seemed to be lost in their thoughts.

"Ahem, Kana… what is that?", he said.

Kana stopped tossing Rigel's flame around and answered.

"These are big brother Aster's flames, they are funny to play with because they aren't hot, in fact they give a fresh feeling when you touch them".

Sarina stepped in the conversation.

"Robert, did you know this kid actually killed a corrupted with his bare hands?".

The Archduke's eyes showed a bit of worry which disappeared when his wife spoke again.

"He isn't affected by the corruption due to the blue flames Kana is playing with right now".

Robert immediately took the little flame away from his daughter before turning to see Aster.

"Kid… is that true?".

Aster knew what Kana's father was going to say, he didn't mind trying but he needed to explain the risks.

"Yes, my flames are special, as you can feel they don't burn but…", he created a little piece of flame on his left hand and made it slightly touch the wall of the room, Robert saw a little amount of dust falling to the ground before the flame disappeared leaving behind a little hole in the wall.

"My flames are used to refine things… I guess I could use them to purify the fluids of the corrupted ones, it took me a lot of train to get this level of control and I can assure you that on surfaces there is no danger, you could even swim in them, but I haven't tried to use them inside other people bodies", the flame in Robert's hand suddenly flew away and it was absorbed by Aster's body.

Sarina smiled.

"Can you try removing the corruption that is already showing in my skin?".

Aster nodded but the Archduke frowned his eyebrows.

"Sarina, are you sure you want to try it?".

She nodded, "in any case we don't lose anything trying, if those flames had a healing attribute the corruption would have already reacted but that is not the case".

Robert contemplated it for a moment, the reason as to why they weren't able to remove the corruption was that any medicine created to fight against it made the thing reacted just like when you drop water on hot oil, a strong volatile effect.

With the pass of the years in Luonto the alchemists developed medicine which was not detected by the corruption as an "enemy" but it was not strong enough to remove it from the body, it just half controlled the symptoms.

But Aster's flame was different, it was strong and it didn't "harm" the corruption but refined it so there was no reaction at all.

Robert sighed.

"If you can at least lessen the amount of that damn corruption, I would be eternally in debt with you… still I won't blame you if you don't want to do it".

Kana saw Aster with puppy eyes, it didn't cross her mind that he could help her mother, she was genuinely just curious to play with a new thing like a flame that didn't burn.

"I know I'm being selfish, but please try it big brother, I… want to be able to play with my mom life before".

Alice smiled, "he was going to help anyway… whatever some good karma doesn't hurt from time to time", she thought before saying.

"Do it, out of all the people we could have met for some reason it was Kana, and they even had Cade with them, if that is not a fated encounter then I don't know that it is".

Aster felt a bit weird, at first her sister didn't want him to be too close with Kana and now she was telling him to help her, "I guess no matter how many lives you have, you would never completely understand women", he thought.

He approached the bed and a little wisp of flame appeared on his index finger.

"Let's try with a little amount first", he said before the flame positioned on a secluded black spot in Sarina's arm, after a moment the black spot turned into a thin black mist which was then purified by the flame.

Aster stopped and they all waited to see if anything happened.

After a couple of minutes nothing happened, well more accurately nothing bad happened because Sarina felt better than before, although the spot seemed to be small, for it to form in the skin it actually required a lot of corruption to concentrate in one place so right now Aster refined quite a bit of it.

Robert immediately noticed the change on his wife, a bit of color returned to her face, he almost shouted out loud due to the sudden happiness he felt.

He turned to see Aster and bowed his head, this man which doesn't even kneel in front of the king actually bowed his head towards a young man.

"Please help Sarina, I know we are not family and you just met my daughter not too long ago but… if you do it even if you want this old life of mine as compensation, I'm willing to give it to you".

Aster helped him raise his head.

"I don't consider myself a hero nor a saint… but I can see how much Kana loves her mother and that is something I can relate to, for me a friend is worth more than any material thing, so how about we take this as the start of a true friendship relation?".

Robert remained silent for a moment before laughing out loud.

"Hahaha"

"A friend is worth more than any material thing huh? I like how that sounds kid… no Aster, still I might be too old for that, so let's make it so that you will become "true friends" with my daughter, which means that no matter what, you will always be welcomed in my house".

Robert was not as innocent as Kana, his daughter might call them friends but how can he accept them after such a little time of knowing them, but now this was a chance to create a real friendship between them.

"Help my wife and get to know my daughter better? tsk what a cunning man", thought Alice.

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Now that they confirmed that Rigel's flames could dispel the corruption in Sarina's body, Aster covered her whole left hand in the flames for a couple of seconds, compared to how small were the black spots, there were big quantities of black smoked being expelled out of her body.

A couple of minutes later all the black spots in Sarina's arms were gone, Robert gave her an elixir to help her recover a bit faster and it worked, for the first time in almost seven years Sarina could move her arms on her own.

The first thing she did was extend them to drag Kana in her embrace, little tears formed in her eyes.

"My child, I'm sorry I couldn't hug you on the past years… even in your birthdays or when you were sad".

Kana hugged her mother back, she missed those joyful days when her mother could play all time with her, the garden in the front area of the mansion was personally created by Sarina and Kana and they took care of it every day, looking at the different flowers and plant together was their favorite hobby.

Unfortunately, after the corruption started breaking havoc in Sarina's body, she could no longer do any strenuous activities first, and after a couple of months she wasn't able to move anymore.

Now that Sarina could move her arms and a bit of her upper body Aster could see that there were other black spots in her neck, her lower body was covered in a bed sheet but it was safe to assume that her legs also had them and probably other parts of her body.

Sarina separated from her daughter and her husband tried to held her hand but she refused which made him sigh before stopping and walking next to Aster.

Robert patted Aster's shoulder before saying.

"Can you continue with the treatment or do you need some time to rest and recover your spirit energy?".

Aster contemplated things, to be honest creating Rigel's flame didn't use his spirit energy, but controlling it so carefully to not harm Sarina's body and just refine the corruption did use quite a bit of it, and now there was another thing to consider… he needed to see the place where his flames touched to have that kind of control over them.

"I don't really need a rest but we need to have a serious talk about the treatment before we continue".

Robert's expression turned serious for a moment.

"Kana please wait outside of the room for a moment", he said.

Alice more or less could guess what her brother was going to say so she took the initiative to leave the room with Kana.

Once Alice closed the door Robert sat in the bed next to his wife.

"Feel free to speak kid, if you need an herb or any other thing, my whole treasury is open for you to take whatever you need".

Aster shook his head.

"It's nothing like that", he turned to see Sarina before continuing.

"Pardon my rudeness but can you tell me… if you have those black spots on ay other parts of your body besides your arms and your neck?".

"Yes, I have them practically all over my body", she answered.

Aster sighed; he spoke to Robert this time.

"I need to see the places where my flame touch to have the amount of control needed to just eliminate the corruption without harming the body".

It took Robert a moment to understand what he meant, basically he needed to see his wife… naked, to be honest even he didn't know all the places where the corruption was already showing in Sarina's body, the maids have been taking care of her needs while he was looking for a cure or being busy protecting the border cities or assisting to other important things in the capital.

He focused his attention on Sarina.

"How much… has the corruption spread?".

Sarina had weird expression on her face.

"At this point it is everywhere below my head".

"I don't mind, this is just a medic procedure so there is nothing to worry about, but Robert I… don't want you to be present in the room while it happens", she added.

Robert felt a bit complex

"Sarina, so far, all the medics that have treated you were women, at the very least let me be here".

He turned to see Aster before continuing.

"Don't take it personally kid, I'm just being a stubborn idiot right now".

Aster understood how Robert felt, he nearly attacked Adil when he focused his attention on Lilia, not to mention that she was properly wearing clothes and Sarina doesn't have that option.

Sarina had a serious expression when she interrupted her husband.

"If it wasn't for Kana, I wouldn't have allowed you to enter this place to be honest, if you insist then… let Kana be here, she has stayed with me all the time unlike other certain person"

Aster felt the room's atmosphere suddenly becoming tense, there was probably more in this situation than what he knew, still there was no need for him to involve himself into it or at least that's what he thought.

Robert wanted to argue but he knew his wife would not change her mind no matter what and being honest… he knew the reason, but he was not prepared to speak about that, instead it was more important to continue with the treatment right now.

"Fine, I will return to the capital now… once you have recovered, we will have a long talk understood?".

Sarina didn't answer him which made Robert stand from the bed, he smiled at Aster and handed hi a couple of bottles full with pills.

"Once you finish the treatment please give her those pills, they will help her recover faster".

Robert left the room and he left the door open which allowed Aster to see him saying goodbye to Kana before flying away through a window in the corridor.

Kana returned to the room with a somewhat sad expression but she didn't say anything, Alice also entered the room but she was confused about what just happened, she closed the door behind her and just leaned against the wall now that Kana's father wasn't here, she felt a bit more relaxed.

Aster noticed his sister's change in attitude, "a woman's intuition I guess", he thought.

"If there are no other problems then let's start already, are you going to call someone to help with… undressing?".

Sarina smiled.

"Don't worry, Kana will help us with that… also don't mind Robert and just continue with the treatment please".

Aster nodded.

"Okay, then let's start with your feet so you can walk again".

Kana removed the sheet that was covering the lower half of her mother's body, Sarina was wearing a comfortable loose white dress so her legs were clearly visible now.

A blue flame covered both of her feet and legs, this time the process took almost five minutes before the black smoke symbolizing the success of the treatment appeared for a couple of seconds just to be eliminated by Rigel's flames, apparently the corruption was more concentrated in Sarina's legs since that was the first part of her body to be affected.

Sarina noticed his curious gaze and she explained.

"I fought against what I supposed was a peak disaster lever corrupted… unfortunately that thing was already trying to evolve to calamity level and although I managed to defeat it, I got infected by its corruption".

Sarina looked at her hands which she couldn't move for such a long time and she smiled.

"Still, I'm thankful that the negative effects didn't start immediately so I was able to spend some time with Kana".

Aster was surprised, she resisted the corruption's effects just to spend time with her daughter without complaining even once, although he was also curious about why she seemed angry with Robert he was in no position to ask that.

"Kana can you turn your mother around? we need to remove the corruption in the back of her legs and her heels", he said.

Kana did as she told and just as Aster expected there were some other small concentrations of corruption on the places that he avoided to cover with the flames.

Once he finished Kana helped her mother lay face up again, Aster gave Sarina the medicine Robert left and after taking it she tried to stand but she couldn't, her body was still too weak for that but she managed to sit on the bed instead.

Now that there was no corruption left on the visible parts of her body, she rose her arms ad asked her daughter to take her dress off.

"Dear, please help me with my dress so your big brother Aster can continue".

Kana didn't think too much about it, she did as her mother asked and after a moment Sarina was only wearing underwear.

Despite having told Robert that she didn't mind, it was the first time another man besides her husband saw her like this, to be honest Aster was more focused on all the corruption marks he could see… it was really awesome that she was still alive.

There no black spots anymore, instead they formed some kind of crystal over some parts of her skin becoming a strangely exotic but not bad to contemplate spectacle.

Sarina pointed at her neck.

"Start with my neck please, I feel so stiff that is a bit uncomfortable".

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Previously when Rigel's flames removed the corruption from her arms and legs Sarina wasn't able to "feel" the refreshing sensation that Kana talked about when she played with the flames before, due to the numbing effect of corruption.

But now that Aster was treating her neck which was near the only part of her body that wasn't affected by the black fluid, she understood why Kana liked to play with the flames, it was a new kind of sensation, like when a strong gust of wind touched your body but a bit denser than that.

A couple of seconds later Aster dispelled the flames and Sarina's neck was free from corruption, she smiled feeling the uncomfortable stiffness that has been tormenting the nerves on her neck fade away.

She moved her head a couple of times to get rid of any leftover numbness.

"Thanks… can I directly call you Aster?".

Aster nodded; formalities were not his thing anyway.

Sarina smiled.

"Since you are Kana's friend now you can call me Sarina too, of course the same applies for your sister", she said while stealing some glances at Alice.

Kana was happy, if her mother got along with Aster then she could play with him without worrying about her father interfering or scolding her.

Contrary to what Aster expected, Alice also accepted the invitation, "since when my zero social skilled big sister is so easy going?", he thought.

It was getting late and the one of the guards told them that the little banquet asked by Robert was already waiting for them in the dining room.

Sarina decided to stop the treatment for the day, on any case now that her body was recovering, she felt hungry for the first time in the past 5 years where she has been forcing herself to eat despite not having any appetite.

"We can continue with the treatment tomorrow, for now let's celebrate that my dear Kana found some good friends".

Kana was all smiles.

"Let's also celebrate that you are feeling better now mom!!", she said.

With Kana's help Sarina was able to stand from her bed and after a couple of tries she could walk by herself, a bit slowly but she was clearly smiling, as a proud star vertex cultivator she was happy to finally be able to do something as basic as walking by herself.

When the two guards saw their madam walking, their eyes almost popped out of their sockets due to the surprise.

"My lady, are my eyes deceiving me? or are you feeling better now?", asked the same guard that told them about the banquet.

Sarina looked at Aster from the corner of her eyes before answering.

"The archduke found a good medicine for me, so I will be assisting the little banquet arranged for our new guests".

Alice was surprised, "she is not reveling anything about Rigel's flames, to avoid Aster getting unnecessary attention… cunning woman".

The guards were ordered to keep protecting Sarina's room while Aster, Alice, Kana and her mother went downstairs to the dinning room, the maids seemed truly happy seeing Sarina walking again, which Aster noticed.

"A good master gets good followers I guess", among the happy gazes there was one which felt a bit different but Aster didn't pay attention to it.

Once they were in the dinning room, everyone took their seats, Sarina should have taken the main seat at the right extreme of the table but instead she chose to sit next to her daughter in front of Aster and Alice.

The maids served the dishes before leaving the room, to respect the privacy if the guests and their lady.

Kana started eating right away without any worries, although she had the proper etiquette of a noble seeing her eating in little portions was quite funny, Aster was worried that the people of this planet had a different sense of taste than them but the food was actually good, he could confirm it seeing his glutton sister enjoying plate after plate of it.

Sarina also felt that the food in front of her was the tastiest she has ever had, "the simple little pleasures of life… sigh to think that I had to go through such a horrible situation to understand it", she thought.

Once they finished eating the main dishes, Kana sounded a little bell and after a moment the maids entered with the dessert, some cupcakes and other pastry along with tea.

Aster didn't like tea too much but the ones he has drank so far weren't half bad and it would be weird to take a bottle of wine from his spatial ring, especially now that he was eating sweet things.

Sarina was happy seeing her daughter eating with her, she knew how sad was her that the maids had to feed her since she couldn't move, "who would have thought that this little girl would suddenly bring home someone that is capable of curing an advanced state of corruption".

She suddenly felt a bit curious about what they would do, even if Kana invited them to stay in the mansion, they would probably have other things to do.

"I know you two are not from Luonto by the way you speak, but how many time are planning to stay in this continent?", she asked.

Aster took a sip from his tea.

"We were separated from our group, one of them was the reason as to why we met Kana but we are still missing two, I guess we would stay in Luonto for a couple of weeks while we look for them before we leave".

To be honest it was a supposition, they didn't know the exact date or place where the portal would open, instead every one was given a coordinate stone which would indicate them when and where the portal is opening.

The coordinate stone was working properly but for some reason his communication talisman didn't reach Eric and he hasn't gotten any messages from him either so they probably didn't work here.

The minimum lapse of time for the portal to appear was one month after they arrived but it could be more time, "since this place is not a secret realm, what a shame I can't contact mother to tell her about this", he thought.

Kana's smile downed a bit listening that they would leave after a couple of weeks, especially since they will be looking for their companions which meant there won't be time for her to play with Aster or Alice.

Sarina noticed her daughter's mood change and she shook her head.

"If you say that you need to look for them that means you have no way to contact them, right?".

Aster nodded.

"Yes, I lost my communication talisman", he said, it was a better excuse than saying "it doesn't work because I come from another really far star cluster".

Sarina smiled.

"Then how about you tell me the name and a description of your friend, we can use the information network of the Millefiore to look for them… but in exchange I want you two to go out and see this city with Kana, she hasn't had a single fun day since I was confined to my bedroom".

Kana hugged her mother before her gaze focused on Aster and Alice as if she was saying "pleaseeee".

Aster turned to see Alice, it was a good idea, they now had a place to stay and it would be easier to find Eric this way, besides spending some time with Kana was also not a bad way to pass time.

Alice nodded.

"Sounds like a good idea, I could get to know this city with Kana", she said.

"I also like the idea", answered Aster.

Sarina caressed her daughter's hair.

"It's settled, if you aren't in a hurry, we can make a portrait of your friend tomorrow along with a description and send it so our informants start looking for him".

Aster agreed, he was also tired using lightning trail for such a long period of time and also using Rigel's flames to fight and also remove the corruption from Sarina's body made him use quite a bit of his spirit energy, and he was also still suffering some little after effects of the chaotic space tunnel so a good night of rest was a must for him.

Kana yawned after finishing her dessert, Sarina patted her head and asked them if they were already assigned rooms, before Aster could answer Alice spoke.

"Not yet, our companion is already staying in his room, if it's not too much to ask we only need one room for both of us".

Sarina nodded but internally she was a bit surprised by Alice's words, by their appearances it was clear they were already grown up so she thought that Alice would want a room for herself being a young lady and all that, "I guess it's reasonable to stay together just in case, we only met today after all, I hope they get to know Kana better while they wait for their companions, since she really seems to like them", she thought.

"You two must be tired, let me call someone to take you to your room".

Sarina made a little bell ring and a maid entered the room.

"Lynn, please guide our guests to a double room please".

The maid bowed her head in recognition.

"There will be a service bell in the night stand besides the bed, if you need anything just ring it and one of my personal maids will go to assist you".

Aster and Alice stood up, before saying good night to them and following the maid to their room.

Once they were gone Sarina saw her daughter's sleepy expression and she smiled.

"Do you want to stay with me today… it's been a long time since I read you a night story?".

Kana nodded.

"Yes, I want you to read me the princess and the golden knight please".

Sarina patted her head.

"I will read you all the stories you want", she said.

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It was night and the maids in the Millefiore mansion followed their usual routine, after serving the dinner to their madam, they cleaned the table and went to the kitchen to take their own dinner, of course they had their own residences to stay and their families to be with.

The only ones that remained were a couple of maids which started their shift at night, the guards closed the main door and silence fell into the mansion.

The maids liked the night shift because nights in the mansion were always calm and that was the case for most of the mansion with the only exception of one room, normally guests stay in the rooms on the lower floor but since all the doubles are on the second floor then Lynn guided them to one that was a few meters away from Sarina's one.

Once Aster closed the door, he exchanged gazes with his sister for a couple of seconds before they started passionately kissing, many things happened this day but the two of them already decided to have some intimacy when they were riding the vine earlier.

Alice jumped and wrapped her legs around Aster's body while her arms were firmly held in his back, Aster used his hands to support her ass to help her not fall, or at least that was the original intention.

"Nnngh "

She felt her brother fondling her ass and a little moan escaped from her lips, which made Aster stop what he was doing for a moment, since they basically stayed in the Wolfstein castle where they were separated from the rest of the world the past three years, he forgot to put on the barrier.

Without letting go of the beauty in his arms he took out a white talisman from his spatial ring placed it in the door, a dark barrier surrounded the inside of the room, seen from outside nothing happened but if anyone were to enter, they would see a couple of meters of the room before a black crystal-like wall blocked their view.

Alice kept kissing his neck while he was putting on the barrier without caring about anything else, Aster returned to his previous position with his lips firmly pressed against hers.

While they kissed, he walked to the bed, once he was in front of it, he gently placed made his sister lay down on it while he stayed standing in front of her, Aster took off the coat and his shirt before doing the same with his boots, Alice smiled seeing her brother's upper body naked.

In the past three years she saw her brother becoming quite a fine man in many ways, his body was toned and he had a nice musculature without looking bulky, the word "refined" will be the best way to describe him.

Alice also stood up, she turned around to show him her back before saying with a tempting voice.

"Can you help me unbutton my dress?".

Aster smiled, one by one the buttons were undone and soon his sister's graceful bare back was in plain view for him, Alice lifted her legs one after the other to get off the dress, while doing it she also took off her shoes.

Right now, Alice was only wearing her underwear while Aster only had his pants left, she placed her hand on his brother's chest before saying.

"If you think it carefully, we came to another world who knows where, we were separated, longed for each other and reunited in just one day, quite romantic right?".

Aster had a weird smile on his face.

"Your definition of romantic still amazes me, sis", he answered.

Alice stuck her tongue at him.

"A gentleman must follow the play; tonight… is going to be special after all".

Aster more or less has progressed in his experience with relationships after three years he liked to think he made some advance unlike when he was a "kid" both on the outside and in experience with woman.

"Every night I spend with any of you is special though", he said.

Alice smiled.

"Sweet talker, I didn't mean it like that, before we left the space ship I talked with mother and since now I'm already a body solidification cultivator I got the green light to… finally give you my first time ".

Aster was genuinely surprised, at first the reason to not take Alice's primordial yin was that she was still learning to control her attribute and it was beneficial for her to keep being a pure maiden, with time she became quite skilled on controlling destruction which helped her advance to the peak of the star formation realm in less than three years.

She was fourteen when she reached the peak of the star formation realm and since that moment, she was ready to do it with her brother but… the problem was that he had already grew quite a bit at that point, especially down there so now it was more of a physical challenge.

Personally, she didn't mind a little of pain to become one with her beloved brother but both Aster and Lilia didn't agree, Lilia was the only one using her pussy to take care of her son's needs and even she had trouble to accept him now that he was bigger than before.

Unfortunately, unlike her ass, she couldn't use a toy for training because she refused to break her hymen with anything that wasn't her brother's thing, although it might grow back after some time, she wanted to experience the first time in all the meaning of the words with her lover, it might sound stubborn but she didn't want to fall behind Lilia on that aspect.

So, Alice needed to improve her physique to not hurt herself if she didn't want to wait for her body to fully develop like Aria, who was already eighteen years old, and the solution was to focus in body cultivation.

That being said, Aria also got rejected since she was only starting to understand her body constitution, so after that it became a competition to see who reached the body solidification or the spirit opening first.

They both did it on not too separated dates, but they needed a couple of months to solidify their advances, and so the day for the exploration came and that's why Aria wasn't convinced knowing that Alice would be alone with Aster which meant she will be the first of the two to do it.

Seeing the triumphant smile on his sister's face Aster shook his head.

"I can already guess how much you are going to tease Aria with this, but remember the order is not important for me, all of you are my beloved girls or would you like mom to keep reminding you every time that she was the first?".

Alice stopped smiling immediately before sighing.

"Fine I won't brag too much to the ice princess… humph can't you let me enjoy my victory?", she said

Aster smiled, he wrapped his arms around her waist and dragged her into his embrace.

"Unfortunately for you, the true winner here is me", he said.

Alice hit his chest a couple of times.

"That's true, you better thank the heavens for giving you such a beautiful big sister like me".

They started kissing again, while their tongues were fighting for supremacy, Aster undid the laces on her bra and removed it with his hands, he immediately felt to little soft pointy things pressing against his chest.

He stopped the kiss and buried his face on her breasts, which made Alice smile.

"Seems like all that fondling was worth it, you can't let them alone now hehehe",

Aster gave her right nipple a little kiss, while his fingers were playing with the other one before answering.

"I have liked them since I saw them excited for the first time, when a certain pervert sister was touching herself in my bed".

Alice blushed a bit.

"Ahem, who would have thought that day would be the beginning of all this".

Aster nodded, if not for that little slip they might have waited some more years to become honest between each other, in fact Alice was indirectly the one that made Aster also skip several steps with Lilia, although later they found that their mother knew about them since the beginning.

Now that the barrier was properly set, Alice let her moans out without any restriction, after roughly fifteen minutes of having her nipples teased and her breasts gently fondled by her brother Alice felt her pussy was completely soaked and she was right, Aster stopped to contemplate the beautiful sight in front of him, her breasts were moving up and down due to her accelerated breathing and there was a wet spot in the middle of her panties.

Alice saw her brother smiling at her current state and she got back at him.

"I can see the bulge in your pants too, you breast fetishist brother", she said.

Aster shook his head.

"I'm already a mother-con, a sis-con and an ass fetishist, adding a couple more tags more won't hurt".

"Speaking of that, turn around for me", he said.

Alice sighed but she still did as he told, a moment later she felt his hands fondling her ass and making circles around her back, but suddenly his fingers focused on her pussy lips, although she still had her panties on, due to the love juices she let out before the thin fabric was stuck against her skin so Aster could feel the softness of her pussy even through them.

"Nnnh… don't tease me too much I have been dying to do it since we were traveling over the vine".

Aster smiled, he kneeled down behind her.

"Nop, you were the one to tempt me so I'm going to enjoy every corner of your body to the content of my heart today", he said before pulling the last thing that was covering his sister's body.

He licked his lips before immersing himself into that fragrant paradise, normally he focusses almost completely on her asshole since that is his entry point but this time, he mainly licked her pussy.

"Mmm ".

Alice felt her brother's tongue going inside of her and her legs trembled a bit due to the sudden stimulation, she unconsciously tried to close her legs to stop the "invader" but Aster kept them nicely separated to continue with his incursion.

"W-wait, let me lay down in the bed I don't think I can keep standing like this", she said.

After giving her one last lick, he stood up and took off his pants, while Alice laid face down on the bed, from the corner of her eye she saw the notorious bulge on his brother's underwear and her insides twitched a bit.

"Finally, I'm so going to rub this into Aria's face when we get back hahaha", she thought.

Aster was about to take off his underwear when he they heard someone knocking on the door.

Alice felt a blood vessel popping on her neck, "come on out off all the moments it had to be right now", she said.

Aster laughed at her sister's reaction, he covered her naked body with the bed sheet before putting his pants and shirt back on and leaving the space protected by the barrier to open the door.

Although he didn't show it, he was also annoyed, especially since he had a good supposition of who was it, with a little clicking sound the door opened and the first thing Aster saw was a knife directed at his heart.

The silence was broken by the sound of drops falling and a little red pond appearing on the floor… a pond of blood.

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For some reason the mansion lights were turned off so outside of the room was a bit dark, still the light coming from the room was enough for Aster to see the face of the person that was in front of him, it was one of the two guards that were protecting the entrance to Sarina's room.

But there were two differences from her current appearance, first her eyes had a vague look and seemed to be out of focus and the second and probably most important was that… there was hand piercing her chest.

Her body fell to the floor making a dull sound.

thud*

Aster took a few steps ahead before closing the door of the room behind of him, the hilt and half of the blade of a knife could be seen sticking out of his chest.

Sarina rushed from the first floor and when she saw Aster, she immediately took out some medicines and other first aid elements.

"Are you okay? one of the guards suddenly went crazy, I managed to run with Kana but then I noticed her returning upstairs…".

She stopped speaking before looking downwards only to see a sword stabbed on her stomach.

"Why?", she asked before her body fell backwards, although she was still breathing.

Aster smiled.

"I would like to say something like "the same technique doesn't work twice against me", but to be honest it didn't work the first time anyway", he said.

Sarina spat some blood; her face twisted a couple of times before it changed back to her original appearance… the maid that guided them to their room "Lynn".

"So now, the question is why the guard attacked me but I guess you won't say anything even if I kill you, blah, blah, blah or something like that right?".

Lynn laughed out loud while blood dripped from her mouth.

"Since that poison knife stabbed your body, you are dead anyway, so I can tell you that my master asked me to kill you while looking like someone related to the Luonto continent, since you are not a native from here then this will for sure bring a calamity to this place".

Aster waggled his index finger.

"Villains surely loose because they talk too much", he said before the knife "stabbing" his chest simply came off, the part of the blade that was supposed to have been inside his body was nowhere to be seen.

Aster dusted off his shirt, which wasn't even ripped on the part where the knife was "stabbed", "I'm becoming an especial effects pro sooner or later", he thought.

Lynn's eyes widened.

"Y-you what the hell are you… that knife is supposed to pierce trough the defense of a star alignment cultivator easily".

Aster smiled, the last time Lilia tried how tough was his body she had to use the strength of a star tribulation to cut his skin, of course she stopped immediately when the first drop of blood appeared, he needed some of his blood for a little experiment anyway.

Aster was about to start interrogating when Lynn's veins became visible and turned black, she was dead, which made him frown his eyebrows, he didn't see her breaking a capsule of poison or something in her mouth, but right now that wasn't his priority.

He walked to Sarina's room and the other guard was leaning against the wall, there was blood in the floor and she had foam coming from his mouth, he tried to open the door but there was some weird pitch-black talisman stuck to it which gave off a dangerous aura.

Aster extended his hand and the whole door illuminated in golden before it was turned into nothingness, whatever was the effect of the talisman it didn't have time to activate, now that the door was gone, he saw Sarina standing in front of her bed where Kana was peacefully sleeping.

Her expression relaxed when she saw that it was Aster the one entering her room, her legs gave in and she fell to the floor, Aster finally felt her current cultivation, she was only a middle stellar constellation cultivator probably because corruption has been eating away her vitality for such a long time.

After a moment of silence Sarina spoke.

"I'm sorry, I suddenly heard some noises outside of the room, my guard closed the door while she fought against the other guard, the next thing I knew was that Kana fell asleep, I tried to open the door but…".

She showed her hands to Aster which made his eyes widen a bit, he immediately took out a bottle with some kind of red liquid mixed with golden and poured it on her hands.

He did the right thing eliminating the door along with that black talisman, Sarina's hands were covered in chemical burns, like the ones caused by some kind of acid, to explain how bad were the wounds… her bones were visible in some parts.

Sarina saw the caring expression on the young man treating her wounds and she felt warm, but on the other hand she was angry, she was the host but due to the stupid corruption she was so weak that if not for the man in front of her, who knows what could have happened to her and more importantly to her daughter.

Feeling the burning sensation in her hands suddenly disappearing, she looked downwards and saw her hand healing at a visible ratio, after pouring the whole liquid of the bottle on her hands, Aster covered them with bandages.

"This should be enough for them to heal in a couple of hours".

Sarina sighed and Aster helped her to stand up and sit on her bed.

"I keep increasing my debt with you… please check if Kana is fine, I didn't see anything bad but my spirit sense is still not completely recovered so I might be wrong", she said.

Aster nodded, he placed two fingers above Kana's nose to see if she was breathing properly and there was no problem with that, he gently moved her a couple of times which made her slightly open her eyes.

Yawnnnn, with a cute sound Kana rubbed her eyes a couple of times with her hands to fully wake up, she saw her mother sat close to her and Aster standing next to the bed.

"Mm? Big brother Aster why are you here, do you… want to hear mom's night stories with me ".

Aster smiled, he turned to see Sarina before saying.

"She is fine but… we have a problem in our hands right now".

Sarina let out a sigh of relief, she hugged Kana and gave her a kiss on her forehead while being careful enough so she didn't notice the bandages in her hands.

"Stay in bed dear, I need to speak with your big brother and his sister, okay?".

Kana would have normally accompanied her mother but for some reason she felt quite sleepy so she nodded and accommodated her head on the pillow again.

"Ok, tomorrow I will play with big brother and big sister anyway", she said.

Sarina smiled, she stood up while unconsciously letting her weight lean on Aster since she was having trouble to move after receiving such heavy wounds while her body was still recovering.

Aster didn't mind her actions, they needed to see discover what the hell happened, so he wanted Sarina to see the corpses in case she noticed something he didn't.

They left the room, fortunately the corpse of the guard was leaned almost a meter away from the door so Kana didn't see it although the door was gone, Sarina's expression was angry, the girl that was dead in front of her was the one of the two persons that have been following her for a really long time.

"Hellen… I swear whoever did this will pay for what they did to you", she said before personally closing the eyes of the corpse.

Since she didn't notice anything weird on her corpse with the only exception that she was killed due to a poisoned weapon, they walked away to the part where the corpse of the other guard was laying in ground close to Lynn's one.

"Andrea… what happened to you", she mumbled.

Sarina saw Lynn's corpse using clothes similar to the ones she normally wears and she gritted her teeth, that gave her a hint of what happened here, Aster suddenly extended her hand and a screeching sound echoed in the hall.

Grreeechhh, a black worm with spikes all over its body was surrounded by Rigel's flame, once Sarina saw it all the points connected, she asked Aster to destroy the worm which he did, in less than a second the little thing disappeared within the blue flames.

"Let's go to the dining room, there should have been more maids… but I guess they are in a similar situation or they fell asleep just like Kana", she said.

They went downstairs, Alice who was dressed again tagged along, Sarina changed her "support pillar", she noticed how close she was to Aster so she asked Alice to help her go down the stairs instead.

Alice gave her brother a couple of gazes but she noticed he didn't do anything to Kana's mother, so she just went along to find out who was the culprit of disturbing her fun.

As expected, when they were in the dining room, they saw the other two maids that stayed in the night shift dead in the floor.

Sarina sat on the table and rested for a moment, Alice sat in front of her while Aster saw the wounds on the corpses, they were clearly done by the same weapon that killed the other guard which was probably the knife which was destroyed when the second guard tried to stab him.

This time he tried to look with his spirit sense to see if there were other worms similar to the one, he saw near the corpse of Lynn but Sarina stopped him from doing so.

"There is no need for that, that thing was a heart binding worm… something used by the royal family of the Riga continent to control their assassin squad, there aren't too many of them since it's really hard to nourish them, so there won't be two in the same place".

Aster sat next to Alice; they both were interested in whatever Sarina discovered after looking at the bodies, especially Alice, "someone has to suffer for ruining this young lady's important night", she thought.

Since her hands were wounded, she was wearing her spatial ring on her neck using a necklace, Sarina took out a bottle of some kind of liqueur, she took out three cups and poured some of it in each cup before drinking hers in one go.

Aster tried the liqueur, maybe because of the paragon body or his bloodline but his metabolism was so fast he didn't get drunk so he enjoyed trying the different drinks a cultivation world had to offer.

Sarina sighed.

"I more or less can reconstruct what happened, the question is if you two really want to be involved on it, I already have a big debt of gratitude with you Aster, so I would understand if you want to leave this place and never see me nor kana again…".

Alice shook her head.

"My brother doesn't offer his help too often since not too many people is worth it but once he does, he will do it to the end, besides they interrupted our… "sleeping" time so whoever it was, it won't go unpunished".

Aster was amused by his sister's reaction, "she is really pissed because we couldn't continue with what we were doing, I wonder how much Aria asked to the heavens for Alice to not succeed… to the point that something actually interrupted us hahaha", he thought.

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Sarina started mentioning what she found out.

"Aster, did the eyes of the guard that tried to attack you were lifeless as if they were out of focus?", she asked.

Aster nodded, unlike the maid, the guard didn't show any reaction when he pierced her chest with his hand.

Sarina sighed.

"The heart binding worm has two uses, first, the one who nourished it with his blood can introduce it in the body of someone to made it his slave, if said slave were to ever do something that would bring harm to his master then the worm would release a poison to kill its host, secondly the slave can use it to make other succumb to his suggestions… like some kind of mind control, but there are restrictions".

"For it to work the one that will be controlled needs to be close to the one with the worm for long periods of time, it has to be when the other person senses aren't on alert and it only works one time".

Aster was a bit confused.

"Then how did it happen, correct me if I'm wrong but the guards spent most of their time protecting the entrance to your room right?".

Sarina nodded.

"Yes, but the guard that attacked you… Andrea liked women so Lynn probably seduced her, sleeping together was a perfect opportunity for Lynn to use the suggestion ability of the worm since she wouldn't be wary of her lover, she has been working here as a maid for more than eight years, I bet Andrea has been under her command for at least two or three years already".

Sarina kept silent for a moment before continuing.

"Whoever planned all this, put a lot of thought into it, no one spoke nor interacted with the guards while they were protecting my room, so Lynn probably had her encounters with Andrea on their free days… since I couldn't move from my bed, I also stopped interacting with them, only Hellen spoke with me from time to time so I didn't suspect anything".

"However, we still have a hint, the one who contracted Lynn as a maid was one of the personal guards of Kana, the guy with the beard, his name is Miles".

After a moment of silence Aster spoke in a serious voice.

"If I understood correctly, Marco is the leader of the team, right?".

Sarina nodded.

"Yes, Marco and his little brother used to work in my father's personal army but after his little brother died, he retired and instead became a guard, that happened before Kana was born so after some years he got recognized by Robert and when Kana came to this world, he was the first one to become her personal guard".

Aster doubted, to be honest he would directly go and destroy the bearded guy but there were probably more people involved in this, so instead they needed to interrogate someone who knew about all the guards but which was likely to not be a traitor and that was Marco.

"Where does he live? we'll pay him a visit", he said.

Although Marco technically worked for Robert, Kana has always talked with her about anything so she knew where the guards lived.

"It's not too far from here but… let me go with you, the five guards live together and I want to see how will they react when you speak with Marco, Miles is his right hand and his best friend after all".

Aster was going to refuse, because she not only was injured but someone had to stay and take care of Kana in case something else happened, but Alice stepped in.

"Let her accompany you, I'm not interested in small fries, once you have the name of the bastard who orchestrated all this, then I will also go to personally send him to hell for interrupting my… sleep", she said.

Seeing that her brother was still doubting, she whispered in his ears.

"I will stay with Kana and set the barrier around us, in any case I'm still tired since I had to run and fight against the stupid vines in the forest".

Aster caressed Alice's face.

"Fine but… be careful okay".

Sarina saw Alice saying something in a low voice and then Aster caressing her face with utmost care and she felt a bit weird, they stood up and returned to Sarina's room, Aster personally made sure to set the barrier properly, Alice handed her invisibility talisman to Sarina while Aster used his.

Now that everything was ready, they both left the mansion, the guards outside were still patrolling the garden completely unaware of what happened inside, Sarina was marveled seeing the useful talismans Aster had, "they must have a close relationship with a rune master", she thought.

There was a formation to detect anyone who tried to sneak in by flying but since this was her mansion, she had the master control which allowed her to make "exceptions", to not let the guards see them leaving the mansion and as stellar constellation cultivator she flew away with Aster holding onto her arm.

Still after a dozen of meters away from the mansion she had to land because her body was still too weak for continuous fly, Aster helped her sit down in the ground so she could rest for a moment.

Once her breathing stabilized, she stood up and they walked a couple of streets, it has been a long time since Sarina went outside of her own room so she curiously observed the night life of Oak heart city.

When they arrived at the place where Marco and the other guards lived, Sarina took out a medal with an oak tree.

"This medal is a secret master key for all the houses that exist within the spirit formation of the city, we once were secretly invaded by citizens of the Riga continent so this security measure was created in secret by my father, only he and me know about it".

"One can never be cautious enough I guess", Aster answered.

Aster's spirit sense was strong enough to bring shame to any stellar constellation cultivator, and all the guards were at that realm so before they entered the house, he used it to map the inside of the house, there were five rooms and five people, one in each room, Marco was easy to find since he was the only peak stage among them.

The door opened and they entered before closing it without making any sound, Marco's room was the first one just a couple of meters away from the door, Aster prepared the second barrier talisman he had, in a swift maneuver he used Rigel's flame to cut the lock and both entered the room before he activated the barrier to avoid anyone noticing the little conversation they were about to have.

Marco was still awake, he saw his door opening without any clicking sound which meant it wasn't done with a key, since there wasn't "anyone" entering, he thought it was a joke from his friends, until he saw a dark dome covering his entire room, he drew his sword but when he saw his madam appearing out of thin air in front of him, the sword slipped away due to the surprise.

"M-my lady, you can walk again!!! what are you doing here, the Archduke won't be happy if he gets to know you came to visit us this late night…"

He was interrupted by Aster's voice.

"Right now, that is the least of your problems", he said.

Marco saw Aster also appearing and he was confused, "how are they simply appearing from nowhere and what is that black dome surrounding the room", he thought.

Sarina took out her personal token of identity, something her father gave her which couldn't be falsified, a brown medal with the silhouette of an oak tree and the secret signature of the city lord.

"In front of this medal you once swore to serve and protect this city and its habitants, so now I ask you to answer to all my questions".

If for a moment Marco doubted about the woman in front of him being Sarina, that slight doubt disappeared once he saw the medal granted by his former lord, since he knew there only existed one and it would self-destruct if anyone besides Sarina or her father touched it.

He took his sword which was still sheathed and placed it in the ground, before bowing his head.

"Marco Driant, listen to the command of the lord's daughter and obey… what is happening madam?".

Now that everything was settled while Aster leaned against the door to keep it closed since he broke the lock, Sarina told Marco everything that happened tonight, without forgetting to mention that the reason they were here was that Miles was the one that brought Lynn to work in the mansion.

Marco had a sad and angry expression after he listened to the whole story, it was possible that the man he considered his best friend was working for the people he has been fighting against since he became an adult.

"I only have one question, why is Aster accompanying you… I don't want to be rude but I think it would have been better to call the Archduke to help investigate all this?".

Aster smiled.

"You should be happy that you can see me right now especially because if not for the fact that the attack was directed to me and not to my sister, or I would have erased this whole city from the existence, so I think I have all the right to be here, do you disagree?".

Of course, he was exaggerating a bit, but it was true that if Alice were to be injured, he would have left the Riga continent in ruins or at least there would be one royal family less in this world.

Marco was terrified, he has been a soldier most of his life, it wouldn't be a lie to say he has climbed a mountain of corpses before, battling against the assassins of the Riga continent and their tricks, so he could say the kid in front of him… wasn't joking around.

Seeing that things were getting tense Sarina stepped in.

"Ahem, Aster is here because to be honest I feel Kana and me are safer with him than with anyone else right now, Kana has always had a… good eye for people, if she likes him then he is by no means a bad person and I owe him more than I would ever able to repay", she said while looking at her hands and thinking about how he removed the corruption from her body.

Sarina doubted for a second before adding.

"Besides the one in charge of doing the background check for Kana's guards wan none other than… Robert".

Aster's golden eyes glowed for a second and silence fell in the room while Marco felt the situation becoming more complicated than it already was.

"What in the world is happening", he mumbled.

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It took Marco a moment to process what his madam just told him, right now it was just a theory but if it turned out to be true and Milles was a peon from the Riga continent, there is no way someone as cautious as the Archduke didn't know it.

Sarina sighed, she also thought the same as Marco, but there was a difference... she was furious instead of finding it hard to believe.

"Write a list of the places Milles frequents, maybe one of them is a gathering point for the spies of the Riga continent", she said.

While Marco was doing the list, Aster saw with his spirit sense that the other guards left their rooms at the same time, they all reunited in the kitchen, normally it wouldn't be suspicious since this was their house anyway, but calculating how much time has passed since he killed Lynn then the situation changed.

"It has been enough time for that woman to fulfill her mission and leave the mansion, it seems like the assassins from the Riga continent are too arrogant, to think nothing could go wrong in their plan", he thought.

While Aster was in part right since Lynn was sure that he would die due to the poisoned knife and that's why her tongue slipped, it was also true that her plan was so carefully designed that there weren't any flaws, the strongest cultivators in the mansion were the two guards and she had control of one of them while the other died due to the surprise attack of her companion.

Unfortunately, how can someone predict that a monstrous youngster would suddenly come from another star cluster or maybe even another stellar system, he would casually meet the probably main target of their whole operation and that she would invite him to stay in her house.

Add the fact that Aster's cultivation was blur for anyone who tried to inspect it, since his realm didn't limit his battle prowess, so while he gave off the feeling of a stronger cultivator, he was only a star formation realm, how was Lynn supposed to know that stellar axys realm cultivators were a joke for him or that he would be able to cure Sarina from corruption.

The result, a completely unexpected ending where not only Lynn was dead but her possible partners were already identified, speaking of them Aster saw Miles and other guard coming to Marco's room and he smiled.

"Marco, that guy is coming with another guard, follow their game and let's see how far will this "play" go, don't worry if you are in any danger I will interfere", he said before activating his invisible talisman, Sarina had her doubts but she followed him and activated the talisman too.

Marco saw them disappearing along with the black wall, he immediately kept his sword in his spatial ring and occupied Aster's previous position leaned against the door to keep it closed since the lock was cut.

After a moment he heard someone knocking at his door, Marco waited a couple of seconds before opening it just to see Miles with his usual smile along with one of his subordinates.

Miles pointed at the other guard and spoke.

"Ryan got some friends coming to the town, how about you come with us Marco, there will be good wine and good girls hahaha".

Marco internally gritted his teeth, it wasn't suspicious because Miles has always been akin to such events and he sometimes goes with him or the others, but right now the most possible end for him if he were to tag along without knowing what was happening was that his own team mates would kill him.

Still, he followed the plan and nodded.

"Yes, let's go, that travel from the capital all the way here was quite tiring, I need a good drink".

Miles smiled.

"Perfect, come we are more or less ready, just like always we leave you for the end because we know you are a boring old ass, hahaha".

Marco went with them and they left the house, of course Marco was the one to close the door and he was careful enough to leave it open a couple of seconds for Aster and Sarina to pass it, while he feigned to look for his key.

The guard who was presented as Ryan guided them to what looked like a tavern, there were a lot of places like this in Oak Heart city and this one didn't have anything that make it stand from the rest.

Inside of the tavern there were some of girls sitting in one table near the bar and other guys minding their own business both near the bar and in a table close to the entrance of the tavern.

Ryan greeted one of the girls and the guards sat next to them, quickly the drinks starting coming, one after one, time passed and soon it was past midnight, Aster and Sarina were standing near the entrance just waiting to see how things will develop.

At some point one of the guys drinking near the door stood up and blocked the entrance, since Marco was sitting backwards the door, he couldn't see it.

"It's about to start", said Aster in a low voice.

And he was right suddenly Miles and the other guards along with the girls stood from the table while Marco had an unsightly expression on his face.

"Guys, if this is a joke it's not funny, why can't I move?".

Miles smiled, he turned to see the tavern and since everything was "clear", he laughed.

"I'm sorry Marco, it's time for you to fulfill your purpose, Lynn should be already done with her mission in the mansion and we need a scapegoat".

Marco felt his heart clenching, all the other guards were siding with Miles so his worse fears turned out to be true, he was surrounded by traitors, still he followed his role as the "victim".

"What the hell are you talking about Miles? have you drunk too much, who is Lynn?".

The rest of the guards and even the girls that were drinking with them a couple of minutes ago, laughed as if they were seeing the funniest thing in their lives.

Miles shook his head.

"What a shame there was no way you would have joined us, but since you have been such a loyal friend let me tell you a little secret, we all work for the Riga continent and this night is going to be added to the history books because we kidnapped the little jewel of the Millefiore family along with the daughter of a respected city lord, for our king's entertainment".

"Well more accurately you did it, we chased after you all they way to the border and lethally wounded you but you had companions waiting in the forest, so we weren't able to get those two back, what do you think, it's a good story right?", he added.

Marco felt his lungs filled with anger, "these assholes were going to put all the blame on me", he thought.

"So, you were all traitors!!! How dare you bite the hand that has been feeding you all this time, Kana thought of you guys like family and… you are planning to give her to that pig, where is your damn conscience?".

That last phrase wasn't an act, those were Marco's genuine thoughts, they have been protecting Kana since she was a baby, and yet they didn't hesitate to condemn her to such a horrible future.

Miles shook his head.

"That idiot noble you admire so much is for sure "giving" his attention to other kind of matters right now, hahaha".

Marco felt nauseous.

"So that's why you weren't happy when we met those two siblings on the forest… they are probably from some important family, so if you affect them their backing will come to investigate".

Miles's smile widened even more.

"I have to thanks the heavens for that, our master ordered us to get Sarina and Kana for our king, so it was going to be a boring travel back to Riga since we couldn't lay a finger on them, then those two appeared, and considering Lynn's preferences, we are going to have something nice to pl…".

Miles suddenly stopped speaking, a dark dome appeared around them and then all the presents including Marco and even Sarina felt as if they were suffocating, Aster dispelled the invisible talisman and everyone besides Sarina and Marco fell to the ground incapable of moving at all.

A frightening sensation filled the room, and everyone felt chills running down their spines, cultivation pressure only made your enemies lose their capacity to move but it didn't mentally affect them, the reason as to why they felt as if oxygen wasn't entering their lungs was… fear, an unmeasurable quantity of killing intent was filling the tavern.

With each step Aster took the ground below his feet cracked, if not for the barrier blocking most of the shock the whole building would have collapsed by now, he stopped next to Miles, since he was clearly the second in authority besides the maid he killed in the mansion, then… all the other presents weren't worth anything.

A blue flame appeared in his right hand which he pressed in the back of the guard called Ryan, all the presents could see how blood along with other fluids started coming from Ryan's mouth, nose, eyes and even his ears.

The poor guard couldn't even find relief in screaming to let out some of the unthinkable pain he was feeling right now, because he couldn't move nor make any noise.

While Aster made sure that Miles and the other guards along with the women that were with them saw the suffering miserable face Ryan, he explained.

"I'm glad you guys have recently started to cultivate your bodies, your vitality is high enough for you to fully "enjoy" the feeling of your organs being slowly refined, without me worrying about you dying too soon.

Sarina for a couple of seconds felt a bit afraid of the current Aster, which unlike the one he has seen so far didn't have that mysteriously attracting kind smile on his face, instead his expression was so cold that the temperature of the room was dropping at a visible rate, but after contemplating things she suddenly smiled.

"That's how a man should be, ruthless with his enemies but kind to those he cares about".

Sarina's father changed when her mother was killed by assassins sent by Riga, since that moment onwards he was so fierce in the battlefield that enemy armies started fleeing when they saw Oak Heart city flag appearing, even now he was for sure raining massacre over the Riga soldiers.

She only interrupted when she noticed that the women in the floor peed themselves due to fear, she deactivated the invisible talisman before walking until she was next to Aster.

"I know right now you are angry but… we need to interrogate them", she said while placing her hand in his back.

Ryan's body was suddenly swallowed by golden flames and a second later nothing was left, there wasn't even burn marks in the ground as if he vanished from existence.

Aster turned to see Sarina and her comprehensive smile he calmed down.

"Don't worry, I just needed to let out some steam, we have a lot of questions that need an answer so of course our honored guest can't die on us so early".

Sarina nodded.

"I know the perfect place for that", she said before taking out the same medal she showed to Marco before.

She placed it on the ground and then the entrance to some underground stairs appeared in the floor of the tavern.

Sarina saw desperation appearing in Miles eyes and she smiled.

"In Oak Heart city we have a especial hotel just for you trashes from the Riga continent".

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Aster's expression returned to his usual relaxed one, he saw that Marco was now able to move.

"Check their mouths and clothes to see if they have something to commit suicide, I now know how to identify the heart binding worm so I'm sure they don't have it unlike the maid".

While Marco did as he was told, Aster noticed Sarina's legs trembling a bit and he sighed, for a couple of seconds he lost control of his emotions and she was still in a weakened state so, supporting his pressure although it was not directed to her was something worth mentioning.

He helped her sit down.

"I'm sorry I got a bit heated up".

Sarina shook her head.

"No problem, when I listened that trash speaking of his plans for Kana and me, I felt the same… I envy your sister; you really seem to treasure her unlike the ones that were supposed to protect my daughter".

At this point after seeing that besides Marco the rest of Kana's guards were spies and some other things including what Miles said a moment ago, it was more than obvious that Robert was involved in all this, although he might not be the one behind it, he still probably knew and for some stupid reason he didn't do anything.

Aster sighed, "leaving aside the fact that they also tried to lay their hands on Alice, Robert the next time I see you if you don't give me a proper explanation, you are dead meat", he thought.

Marco finished doing what he was told and surprisingly he didn't find any fake tooth containing poison, nor any other methods to avoid an interrogation, their spatial rings were also normal.

Aster had a good theory considering what Sarina told him about the guard that attacked him, he grabbed another one of the guards, the youngest looking one, according to what he heard from Kana he was called Oliver.

This time he lessened his pressure on the victim just enough for him to speak, blue flames appeared on his hand which made Oliver tremble remembering what happened to the previous guy that was touched by them.

"I will make you a couple of questions, if you lie or if you don't answer in less than five seconds, I will make sure you suffer an even greater amount of pain compared to your other companion".

The guard froze for a moment but before Aster could count to five, he nodded continuously.

"That's good, cooperate and who knows you might spend the rest of your days on a cell instead of a nameless grave, let's start with something easy, are you a native of Luonto or Riga?".

Oliver didn't hesitate to answer.

"I-I'm a native of Luonto".

Aster nodded.

"Did you know a woman called Lynn, the one who was working as a maid in Sarina's mansion, how often did you guys get in contact with her?".

This time it took a couple of seconds to the guy to answer, he even stole some glances at Miles but he still said.

"Yes, I knew her, we saw her from time to time on her free days but… she met only me on separate dates".

Aster smiled seeing, that the other guards Miles included, along with some of the women unconsciously frowned their faces a bit, without them noticing he lowered his spirit pressure, so they could show some reactions.

"These guys were going to betray their birthplace due to the pleasures of a woman… I guess horny idiots are easy to control", he said out loud.

Sarina sighed, "seems like Lynn was especially prepared to open doors with opening her legs only" she answered, while thinking.

"I wonder if that's… how Robert got involved in all this".

Marco was livid, his own subordinates were seduced by a bitch from the Riga continent and then convinced of becoming her peons, and judging by their current expressions they didn't even knew that the others were also involved in their "love fantasy".

Aster was amused by the whole situation, this also made things easier, that woman's modus operandi had a big flaw, she was the core of the whole thing, but she was so sure about her success that all her "companions" have some information about her, while not being spies which meant the interrogation was going to be a piece of cake.

Sarina took out her communication talisman and said out loud, "there is a situation so I will, be going there".

Marco tied the hands and feet of the prisoners and since he was also a stellar constellation cultivator so he was in charge of transporting them, while they travelled through the underground tunnel Sarina opened, on the way she saw Aster curiously looking at the tunnel and she explained.

"My father is a bit… extreme, while I suggested the spirit formation that would allow the one with the master key to access all the places in the city, he went a step ahead and made another one to control the underground space without affecting the city, this tunnel I made will take us to the basement of the city lord's mansion".

After almost 20 minutes walking they arrived in front of a steel door, it had no lock but it automatically opened when Sarina pointed at it with the medal, they all entered and Aster closed the door behind them.

When he turned around, he saw an old man smiling at Sarina, although his hair was originally black most of it has turned grey due to his probably advanced age, he had a beard and a mustache which fused together, besides that he had an eyepatch covering his right eye and he was wearing a full body black armor.

"My daughter… why didn't you told me you were able to walk again, this old heart of mine almost stopped beating when I heard your message a moment ago".

Listening to him saying "my daughter", it was obvious for Aster that he was Sarina's father, the lord of Oak Heart city and also… a peak stage star tribulation cultivator.

"He looks more like and old general than a city lord" he thought.

Sarina stole some glances at Marco who took the prisoners and entered the room his madam pointed at.

Once Marco left with the others, she answered her father.

"I was going to wait until I was completely cured from corruption but the situation didn't allow me to keep the secret, dad".

The old man was Sylas Eik, Sarina's father and due to that Kana's grandfather, Sylas's expression turned serious.

"Speaking about that, weren't some of those guys who were tied… Marco's team? did something happen to Kana!!!".

Sarina shook her head.

"She is fine, it's a long story let's sit a moment so I can tell you everything".

Sylas nodded; he took out a couple of chairs of his spatial ring but he doubted a second when he looked at Aster.

"Lass… did you finally found yourself a worthy man? still I would say he is quite young for you, but if you can finally be happy then you have my blessing hahaha".

Sarina blushed a bit.

"Father he... is the one who is helping me get rid of the corruption, well at this point he is my benefactor since I owe him my and Kana's life".

… "Somehow this old man reminds me of Eric", thought Aster.

Sylas took out another chair and placed it next to Sarina's one.

"Kid, you saved my only remaining family, come sit with us".

They all sat down and Sarina told her father all what happened, it was easy to guess Sylas's reaction, he had a vein popping in his neck.

"That piece of shit from the Millefiore family, dared to not be aware of your security!!!", his voice was so loud that the basement trembled a bit.

After a moment the old man calmed down a bit.

"So according to those traitors, that useless Archduke is who knows where spending the night with some whore, which is probably a spy from the Riga continent?".

Sarina sighed.

"That's the most probable outcome, although I don't understand why".

Sylas shook his head.

"Royals are always a pain in the ass to deal, if not for the fact that I have promised my old friend who was his father that our families will become one after he saved my life in battle, I wouldn't have allowed you to marry with the Millefiore… still I think we should go and tell all this to Orson, this old man personally changed his diapers when he was a baby, so he better listen to me or I'm going to kick his ass until he can no longer sit in that throne the whole day".

Sarina doubted, at this point it was difficult to distinguish friends and foes, if Robert was influenced by the people from Riga, then many cities were in danger, as the cousin of the current King he had a huge authority in the border, so he could make an invasion happen quite easily.

Sylas excused himself for a moment, he entered the same room where Marco was waiting with the prisoners and after less than 15 minutes he returned with a serious expression and… blood all over his clothes.

"According to the bearded guard, Robert did know something weird was happening but… he ignored it due to the advices of his new "counselor", a woman blessed one, lass we have to go to the capital right now or there won't be a Luonto continent soon".

Sarina was worried.

"I can't do anything even if I go… there is still a lot of corruption in my body so I at most can use the power of a core array cultivator and only for a period of time".

Sylas turned to see Aster.

"Kid can you finish the treatment in less than an hour? I can tell this is not your birthplace by the way you speak but… we are all humans and there is going to be a carnage if we let the Riga's royal family demon adorers and bitches take control over Prasil".

"Still, I'm not asking you to help for nothing, how about I personally arrange a marriage between you and Kana… if what my daughter said is true, she already took a liking to you anyway, and unlike others I can tell you are younger than what you look, a genius who I calculate is younger than 14 years old at the core array realm or probably even at the star alignment realm is someone I would welcome in my family any day hahaha".

Aster was in awe, this old man could more or less guess his true age, and he was shameless enough to try and unite him to his granddaughter, still he decided to clear some things just in case.

"I already have someone I like and I'm not a hypocrite to not admit that I have more than one lover, I don't think you are too comfortable with the idea of polygamy, right?".

Sylas smiled.

"You are wrong kid, having a room full of beauties waiting for you is every man's dream, but you must always be honest about having more than one lover, one thing is having a rich night life and another completely different one is betraying them", he said while stealing some glances at her daughter.

Sarina interrupted her father.

"Dad, can you stop spouting all that nonsense please…. Aster, can you help one more time, if it's harmful to you in any way then forget I asked but if it's within your possibilities please help me get rid of the corruption".

Aster nodded.

"I don't have a problem but we must return to the mansion first, the safest place for Alice is besides me… the same applies for Kana".

Sylas smiled.

"Deal, but we are running against time, we'll use my personal space ship to go to the capital, you will cure Sarina while we are travelling, okay?".

Both Sarina and Aster agreed and the four of them including Marco used the same tunnel but this time they went to Sarina's mansion.

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While they were walking under the city, Aster sent Alice a message with his communication talisman to let her know he was returning but they will be moving since they were close to find out who was the one behind the attack.

After walking for almost twenty minutes, they were below Sarina's mansion, more accurately they appeared on the room that was used as a storage for groceries inside the mansion.

Since there weren't any maids left in the mansion, no one saw them going upstairs, Aster opened the door and he saw Alice sat in the bed next to Kana who was still sleeping, Sylas let out a sigh of relief noticing his granddaughter was completely fine, although she was given a pill to make her sleep there was no side effects and she will naturally wake up in a couple of hours.

Alice stood up, she was a bit wary of the old man who in her opinion seemed to be stronger than Robert, she took her legitimate position at Aster's right side while he explained her everything they discovered.

Once the explanations were over, she nodded.

"Even a tiger won't eat its own offspring… to think that guy was cruel enough to not care about his only daughter, not only that but those idiots were also aiming at me, I think they must be taught a lesson".

Aster smiled.

"Don't worry sis, we didn't look for troubles with them but they dared to think of placing their claws on you… and for that I will personally erase them from existence".

His words, made Sarina remind what happened to the guard when they were in the tavern, unlike the blue flames she knew, the golden ones he used then gave off a completely different feeling, an instinctive sensation of… danger.

Since they didn't have time to see whether the guards of the mansion were traitors or not, they used a tunnel to move until they reached a storage that Sylas kept as a cover for his personal hangar.

Inside of it, there was his personal space ship, called "Luonto's sword", it was smaller than Ritz's one but the quality was more or less the same, the reason of its size was that this one was bought by Sylas with his own money instead of the funds assigned to him as a city lord.

Still, it was big enough for more than 20 people to comfortably travel on it so the space was not a problem, Sylas was the captain of course and Marco took the role to be the co-pilot, Aster who was carrying Kana as a princess entered a room followed by Sarina.

Contrary to what Aster thought Alice didn't enter the room, she closed the door while giving her brother a provocative gaze.

Aster mentally sighed, "you pervert sister, admiring beautiful things is not a crime… I haven't done anything weird to them", he thought.

Since Sylas was rushing to reach the capital, it was going to be a short travel so there was no time to rest, first Sarina removed the bandages from her hands, they were completely healed which made her wonder what kind of medicine Aster used on her, but she was sensitive enough to not ask about something that could be a lifesaving elixir.

If Aster knew what she was thinking he would laugh, that was simply his blood, he has been extracting samples from time to time in the past years, for some little experiments, with the pass of the time, he noticed there started appearing little quantities of golden color mixed in the normal red color of his blood.

Not only that but his blood was brimming with vitality, even if he extracted a lot of it, it was almost immediately replenished, of course he felt hungry after that but it didn't affect him so after he discovered it had healing and purifying properties he prepared some bottles of it in case of an emergency, "one can never be cautious enough", was one of his principles.

With the exception of Kana who was sleeping, the only ones left in the room were Sarina and him, which made the situation a but awkward for them, Sarina sighed.

"I was ready for this since I accepted the treatment, in any case, I have been a free woman even before I was infected by corruption, so what if… I show my naked body to him", she thought.

Without saying anything she started taking off her clothes, until she was only wearing her underwear, this where they left It before, but there was one different thing this time, previously Sarina was wearing some plain looking bra and panties, but this time it was a fine set of black underwear which made a good contrast with her pale skin.

Of course, she changed before when she was about to go to sleep with Kana before all the incident with the guards and Lynn started, she felt so happy for her new chance in life that she just chose to use something she had never tried before, who would have thought the first one to see her on it would be Aster.

Aster feigned ignorance, but to be honest her maternal figure combined with that black lingerie was quite a sight to behold.

Sarina doubted for a second before breaking the silence.

"P-please start with my abdomen".

Aster nodded and Rigel's flame covered the visible parts of her abdomen, unlike before this time he had to remove the little black crystals that had formed on some parts of her skin which took him almost five minutes, with a little cracking sound they broke and liberated a big quantity of black smoke which was immediately destroyed by the flames.

Once she saw there wasn't any left-over signs of corruption she turned around while maintaining her hair over her shoulders, Aster understood the signal and did the same on her back, the process repeated until all the places that were visible were completely free of any corruption.

Sarina did feel the difference, her body felt lighter, it was easier for her to breath as if she has lifted a weight from her body, now the only places left were her breasts and… her privates.

She made sure that Kana was still sleeping and then slowly took off her bra first, she tried to use her hands to cover her bare breasts but it was not possible due to their size, Aster found the current image of a shily blushed half naked Sarina quite cute but he didn't say anything.

After a moment she slowly retired her hands to give him full view of her "affected area", she did have a few black spots here and there, but they paled in comparison to the little nipples that adorned that pair of big breasts, like cherries on top of a dessert.

Her breasts maintained the characteristic firm and high position of a young woman, although she had breastfed before, her nipples were of a beautiful light pink color, and just like Lilia, she had that maternal charm around her, at first Aster was being careful to not show interest in Sarina but after seeing that, how could he remain completely unaffected still what he felt was admiration instead of lust, just like he thought before, admiring beautiful things isn't a crime.

The only problem is that without noticing he stared at them for a not so short period of time which of course Sarina noticed, but she was in no position to complain because for some reason when she saw Aster focusing his gaze on her bare breasts, her nipples… reacted.

"This is so embarrassing, I'm old enough to be his mother and here I'm getting all worked up just because he is seeing me… although he seems quite interested in them, maybe because he is young".

Sarina cleared her throat which took Aster out of his daze.

"W-we are in a hurry right now but later when we deal with the current situation, I… would like you to check on me again since any left-over corruption will probably become external to replace what you have removed!!!", her voice tone changed while she was speaking, at first, she hesitated, later she lowered her voice and at the end she spoke as fast as she could.

The result a shocked Aster, she basically told him to focus on healing her this time, since later he would get to see her body again.

To not make things more awkward, he only nodded and Rigel's flames covered Sarina's chest, she even slightly separated them so Aster could see the skin between them and remove any corruption that might be there.

While Aster was busy focusing on removing corruption, Sarina's mind was a disaster.

"What am I doing!!! I just flirted with a boy that is in the same age range as my daughter… and why do I feel my heart beating as fast as if I ran a whole day!!!".

Originally, she was only going to ask him to start the treatment while feigning ignorance about the whole situation but while she was speaking, she suddenly thought "it's better to always do a double check", then the meaning of her words took a completely different turn and now she more or less suggested the young man in front of her to look at her body with the excuse of a second treatment session.

Sarina's internal strife was interrupted when she no longer felt the fresh sensation of Rigel's flame in her chest, she looked downwards and her breasts were completely free of any black spots, she turned around for Aster to see if there were any corruption that wasn't visible due to the laces of her bra, but there wasn't, so now there was only one place left.

If it was before she might have not thought too much about it, but now that she has seen the interest in Aster's eyes and reciprocated said interest with voluntarily asking for a second "treatment session", she now became more aware of what she was about to do.

"Aster…can you please turn around for a moment?", she said.

Aster did as she told and he turned to see the door.

"You might wonder why, and old lady like me is acting like this, the truth is that I only married Robert to fulfill my father's wish of uniting our families, I was an adult when that happened and I had zero interest on him… I only fulfilled my duties as wife with him once on a dark room, and that's how Kana came to my life".

"That's why he insisted on being present in the room, because he hasn't seen my body naked not even once… you can turn around now".

Aster turned around and he was welcomed with an image that seemed to came out of the mind of the most talented artist, first he focused on the outer details, her wavy blonde hair cascaded down to her hips, her pale smooth skin that had regained the healthy tone of a young woman, and that beautiful pair of emerald green eyes, a beauty in all the meaning of the word.

If you add to the above the fact that her figure had the maternal curves that Aster adores so much, that large pair of breasts and the small blond bush that crowned her secret garden, which had the beautiful immaculate pink tone of a young maiden, the result was a woman which by no means is less attractive than any of his girls.

Now that she was face to face with Aster, Sarina said what was on her mind.

"What I try to say is that… I'm by no means a woman that will show her body to just any men, so please don't think of me like that".

Previously she didn't put too much attention in how Aster would think of her, and now here she was acting like a young girl who is experiencing love for the first time, which wasn't so far from the truth, her marriage was political just like the ones of many nobles, the difference was that she never developed feelings for Robert since she knew his true face.

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Listening to her, Aster mentally sighed, "since it has come to this, I think being myself is the best", he thought.

He brought a chair from one of the corners of the room and sat in front of Sarina, without paying attention to her blushed expression due to the fact that now his eyes were directly pointed at her private place.

He then nodded and answered to her previous statement.

"Something like that didn't cross my mind, my instincts might not be so accurate when it comes to men since that guy was able to leave a decent impression when I first met him", said Aster referring to Robert.

"But when it comes to women… I'm sure I won't be wrong, and you don't seem to be the kind of woman that would do something like that".

Sarina smiled forgetting that right now she was completely nude, although the room had a dim light she felt as if the whole place illuminated when she heard his words, still she came out her daze feeling a bit cold since it was late night and she wasn't using clothes.

"I'm glad to hear that, if you don't mind… can we continue our conversation aster we finish the treatment?".

Aster cleared his throat.

"Ahem, of course let's start with the front", he said before Rigel's flames covered her lower abdomen including her vagina, as weird as it might be, corruption didn't go close to the most important parts, just like there was no affected parts on her nipples the whole outer area of her vagina was free of it too.

There was only a little crystallization of it above her pubis, which looked strangely good on her, like a little body decoration, still he focused his flames and after a couple of minutes it disappeared from her skin.

Now that the front part was done Sarina turned around which made her ass be in plain view for him, it was the same there, her butt cheeks were completely free of any imperfection, there was a little black crystal on her right hip which Aster made sure to remove with Rigel's flames.

Even if she was backwards to him, Aster could still see Sarina blushing, when he was about to tell her to dress again since now, they were over, something he didn't expect happened, she… spread her ass a bit, just enough for him to see both of her most secret places.

"P-please look carefully and make sure everything is okay there too".

Aster unconsciously smiled, he looked at it for a couple of seconds before saying.

"Everything is okay… there is no corruption so you can dress again", he said.

He was being honest everything looked perfectly fine for him, "a pink paradise", was the only way to describe what he saw, the petals of her flower were so tightly shut that it was hard to believe she has given birth before.

On the back it was the same, he helped developing both Alice and Aria's asses since that was the only way for them to make love for the past three years, so there was no doubt for him that Sarina hasn't even touched hers before.

Rya who was watching everything from the mind space shook her head, "what are thinking you pervert of a master", she thought.

Sarina dressed again before sitting on the bed next to Kana who was still peacefully sleeping, silence fell in the room while she avoided looking at Aster's face, there were too many things in her mind right now.

Aster saw her looking at the floor and he was amused by her reactions, of course he wasn't mocking her, instead the fact that she was so inexperienced in love even though she already had a daughter made her look cute in his eyes.

Rushing things is never a good decision, they will have time to speak about what happened a moment ago later, so instead Aster decided to change the subject to something more pressing.

"If you don't mind the question, how are you going to tell Kana about Robert… although she is for sure closer to you than to him, it doesn't change the fact that it will be a hard blow to her world when she learns the truth".

Now that they were talking about Kana, Sarina returned to her usual mother self.

Sigh*

"Don't worry, I have been preparing her for something like this since I ended up stuck in my room, that's why I adamantly stayed in Oak Heart city which made Kana do the same, despite how she acts she is quite a strong girl", she said while caressing her daughter's sleeping face.

Aster doubted for a second but his expression turned serious when he said.

"I'm going to be honest with you, if he is the one that told Lynn and the guards to capture Alice and kill me… I'm not going to show any mercy to him, I will never allow anyone that threatens my precious family, to exist under the same heaven as me".

Sarina directly looked at him, she saw the firm determination in his eyes and she knew there was no way to make him change his opinion, she smiled before saying.

"Ruthless against enemies but soft with those that are close to you, right?".

Aster shrugged.

"That's a good way to describe me, although I have also been told I'm quite shameless".

Sarina couldn't hold back her laugh, it was the first time she enjoyed something as simple as talking with someone, besides her daughter of course.

"I agree with whoever told you that, I thought you would cover your eyes or something like that when I undressed, but instead you took a chair and simply sat down to "enjoy" the view humph".

Aster had a weird smile.

"I remember someone asking me to "look carefully" though".

Sarina immediately blushed.

"D-don't make me remember that!!!".

"Leaving that aside I have a way to cut off any ties Kana might still have with Robert, but I'm going to need to fight with him", she said.

Aster could feel her cultivation slowly recovering, before she was only a middle stage stellar constellation but now, she has returned to the star axys realm, although there was still some time before they arrived at the capital it was not going to be enough for her to naturally recover her power as a star tribulation.

The reason as to why she couldn't take pills so augment her cultivation since her body was too weak to handle the stress, that's why she only drank some nourishment elixirs that helped her natural recovery rate augment a bit.

Sarina saw Aster smiling before she received a bottle with the same "elixir" as the one he used to cure her hands earlier.

"I suddenly thought that the things that guy gave me for you might have some… surprise side effects, drink that just in case, it will also help you recover faster", he said.

Sarina didn't doubt his words and immediately drank it, she actually forgot that the elixirs she previously drank were the ones left by Robert.

"Woah, this elixir tastes quite good, it's sweet and it has also a refreshing aftertaste".

Aster saw her gulping it down without hesitating and he somehow felt happy, it's harder to trust after being betrayed, and still she was giving him a chance.

Sarina noticed his happy expression and she shyly said.

"If you had any bad intentions towards me or Kana, you would have already acted at this point… don't make me regret it".

Aster nodded and she proceeded to explain him her plan, after a couple of minutes of discussing it and making some slight changes to it, they both agreed with the result.

Sarina heard someone knocking at the door and then she saw Alice entering the room, maybe because of what she did with Aster before but she now noticed something different on her.

"Why do I feel… unease looking at this girl, it's something like looking at an enemy but at the same it's not that, how weird, before she didn't give off this feeling", she thought.

It was normal for her to feel like that, as someone that has never experienced romantic love, how could Sarina understand the feeling of… having a love rival.

Alice saw her brother sitting in front of Sarina and she gave him an accusatory gaze before saying.

"The old man asked me to let you know we will arrive at the capital in 30 minutes".

Aster stood up and walked until he was next to his sister.

"Now that the treatment is finished, I will leave to my room with Alice, for the time being just rest here, Kana should also wake up anytime soon".

Alice hugged his right arm and they turned around to leave the room but before Aster closed the door, he heard Sarina saying.

"I enjoyed talking with you, let's do it again later ".

Aster felt his sister's eyes piercing his back like daggers but he still nodded.

"Sure", he answered before closing the door.

Once the door was closed, he felt Alice pinching his side.

"I knew you were a mother-con, but to think you would target other people's mothers, you pervert brother".

Aster smiled before sealing her lips with a kiss.

"I won't accept you complaining now, you gave the green light before after all".

Alice pouted.

"Yes but… I didn't think you would act so soon; you still have some pending issues with me you know?".

Aster wrapped his arm around her waist and placed his hand on her ass.

"When have I neglected my beautiful sister before, we will make love to our hearts content once we deal with current problem okay?".

Alice felt the passionate touch of her brother and she smiled.

"Fine… you can flirt with them, but you better give me lots of love or I won't forgive you ".

Aster kissed her again, "my girls are the best", he thought.

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Since they were in a public place Aster removed his hands from Alice's ass but he still kept his arm wrapped around her waist, in any case he already told both Sarina and her father that he had more than one lover and if he was going to try anything with Sarina, he was going to need to explain how close he was with both Lilia and Alice anyway.

"I will cross that bridge when the time comes", he thought.

While Aster was outside contemplating the night sky with Alice, Sarina was now dealing with a little situation… Kana actually heard her mother and Aster talking, she woke up in the precise moment when Sarina was undressing but she faked to be sleeping, since both Sarina and Aster were focusing their attention in other things, they didn't notice the slightly open pair of curious eyes looking at them.

Once Aster closed the door she suddenly "woke up" and spoke with her mother.

"Mom, is dad the bad guy?", she asked.

Sarina sighed, "Robert you are going to pay for this", she thought before answering.

"Seeing that confused expression you have, I guess you spied on me and your big brother's conversation, right?".

Kana nodded.

"Yes… I woke up when you were preparing for the treatment".

Sarina blushed a bit remembering the embarrassing things she did and say before, but she shook her head to recover her composure, she placed her hands in her daughter's shoulders and looked at her directly.

"Spying on others is not good but… yes, he has joined the bad guys and some of the people we know have died because of that, so your grandfather, me and your big brother need to stop him or many people is going to suffer".

She felt her daughter's little body trembling a bit, and she understood why, parents are the world for a child and although Kana wasn't so young anymore, she was still shocked when her mother confirmed that her father was a bad person.

She doubted for a second before asking in a low broken voice.

"W-who died?".

Sarina patted her back.

"Let's not think on that, ok?", she answered but contrary to what she expected, Kana insisted on getting an answer.

"Please tell me, uncle Marco has told me quite a few times I'm too innocent, but even I understand that bad people need to be stopped!!!".

Kana's eyes got teary while she was speaking, on past years her mother has told her to always be wary when she had to visit her father, but she thought it had something to do with the fact that Robert has been going around with some other women while his "wife" was bedridden, which of course she as Sarina's daughter didn't see with good eyes but reality was crueler than what she expected.

Sarina wiped her daughter's eyes a couple of times while she explained.

"Both, your big sister Hellen and Andrea have left us... Aster and Alice would have had the same end if not for him being stronger than what the bad guys expected".

Kana cried a bit remembering the two guards that have been protecting her mother for such a long time, before she was affected by corruption those two used to often play with her when she was little, Hellen always gave her a gift on her birthdays since she was a baby, while Andrea baked a cake for her party every time.

Knowing that she would never be able to play or talk with them anymore made her feel sad and the fact that they were harmed by the people to whom her father joined just made it worse.

Sarina felt her heart breaking seeing her daughter suffering but unfortunately it was needed for her to know the truth, the modus operandi of the Riga continent spies was to manipulate others and she didn't want them to take advantage of Kana's doubts, that's why she had to make things clear at once.

"Once we reach the capital everything will come to light, you will stay with your big brother Aster… he will protect you, while I will get the answers you need directly from that guy's mouth".

Kana nodded without saying anything, she just hugged her mother and stayed like that until they heard Sylas's talking to them from outside of the room.

"Sarina, we are here, in a couple of minutes we will be arriving at the royal palace so prepare yourself".

"Okay, I will be there in a moment… Kana has woken up", she answered.

Aster who was next to Sylas outside the room, had a serious expression, from this point and until they dealt with the situation he needed to be on full alert, Sylas patted his shoulder.

"Don't worry kid, I have fought with those cowards so many times before that I can already predict their moves, but this time we have the surprise element on our side, just focus on protecting Kana and leave the rest to me and Sarina".

Aster nodded and Sylas sent a message through his communication talisman before returning to the captain's cabin.

Seeing her brother's fierce expression, Alice rubbed her face against his to comfort him.

"It will be fine, this time I will also join in the fun, mom's training is far worse than any trap those guys could have prepared beforehand anyway".

Listening to his sister's words, Aster's expression returned to his usual relaxed one.

"You are right, eventually we have to face dangers, you are my sister so I know you won't lose to anyone… just be careful, okay?".

Alice smiled and pressed her lips against her brother's.

"I have you as my back up, we are both siblings and lovers so we won't lose to anyone ".

Aster returned the kiss but he separated from Alice when he saw that the space ship was not moving anymore, they were quite high and the sky was clouded so no one could see them from below, almost immediately Sarina appeared besides them with Kana holding her hand.

Aster could still see some remains of little tears in her eyes and he tried to cheer her up, he created a small wisp of Rigel's flame and made it take the form of a bird which flew and stood in her right shoulder.

His little plan worked; he saw Kana smile a bit before she started playing with the flame bird.

Sarina saw her daughter cheering up and she smiled at Aster, which didn't pass unnoticed by Alice, fortunately for him Sylas's voice caught their attention.

"I have spoken with Orson, we are right above the palace and he has opened a little entrance on the defensive spirit formation, a camouflaged transporting ship is coming for us right now".

Not even a couple of seconds passed when they saw a mini version of a space ship appearing besides them, it was small compared to space ships, since it was used for exploration and to only move in the planet without leaving the atmosphere.

The door of the exploration ship opened and a soldier wearing a green armor greeted them.

"By the king's petition I have come to receive lord Eik and his companions please follow me", said the soldier.

There was no time to waste so all of them went up the space ship, unlike the ones Aster has been in before this one only had a row of seats for the passengers and one separated seat for the driver.

While the ship descended to the castle Sylas told some basic information to Aster since he knew he was not a native of Prasil.

"The capital is called Corylus and we are about to see the king Orson Millefiore… Robert's younger cousin, the castle is full of spirit formations, however I who used to be the tutor of Orson were bestowed with a copy of the castle's master key by the former king who was my friend".

Aster frowned his eyebrows a bit, but he immediately relaxed, "if that king tries anything funny, I can always vanish the whole castle", he thought.

The exploration ship landed and the soldier opened the door for them, the first one to go down was Sylas followed by Sarina and lastly Aster who was standing in front of Alice and Kana.

Sylas opened the door in front of them and they all saw a corridor, it was similar to the ones in Isaac's castle back in the Azure sky planet, they all entered and after walking for roughly five minutes they entered the throne room, where the king was waiting for them.

Contrary to what Aster expected the king wasn't sitting in the throne, instead he walking in circles near the entrance of the room, when the king noticed Sylas and the others entering, he immediately spoke while he extended his arm to offer a handshake.

"Uncle Sylas, it's good to see you safely arrived at the capit…".

Without waiting for the king to finish speaking Sylas kicked his ass which made the king scream, since he was wearing a full body armor which included some metal protections in his boots.

"Ouch!!! Uncle why did you kick me?".

Sylas didn't answer him, instead he kicked him a second time which sent the king flying to the other side of the room.

Sylas approached Orson who was trying to stand up and grabbed his arm while he dragged him through the floor until they entered a room destined to be used for strategical reunions, he threw the poor king over a chair before sitting down.

Sarina sighed seeing the whole thing, while Alice and Kana were amused by the situation and Aster couldn't help but think, "this old man is quite crazy".

The king accommodated on the chair, he dusted off his clothes but before he could say anything Sylas finally spoke to him.

"Those two kicks were because my daughter and my granddaughter were in danger because your stupid cousin, if your father were to see that those pieces of trash from the Riga continent had infiltrated the capital, he would cut off your three legs".

(In case you guys don't understand the expression, his three legs are his legs and his dick XD)

Orson had an aggrieved expression.

"Come on uncle, how can I keep my face as a king or uncle when you beat me up in front of two youngsters and little Kana", he said.

The king sighed, "he has always been like that… whatever we have something more important to discuss", he thought.

Sylas has explained him, that two people from another planet had tagged along so he needed to present himself.

"For those who don't know me, my name is Orson Millefiore, the current king of the Luonto continent, it's a pleasure", he said while looking at Aster.

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Aster also evaluated Orson, he had brown hair and brown eyes, he was using a blue coat adorned with some gold decorations, a pair of gray pants and boots and finally a red cape, unlike what one would expect of a king he wasn't using a crown, maybe because he was asleep until a few moments ago when Sylas sent him a message.

Aster nodded before presenting himself along with Alice.

"My name is Aster Drage, and she is my sister Alice Drage, it's a pleasure".

Orson sat back on the chair and continued the conversation he was having with Sylas.

"Uncle, you told me we were in danger of being invaded by the Riga's, but I have been checking on the border guards regularly like you instructed me and there haven't been any signs of them for a long time".

Sylas sighed.

"Apparently this time they used a honey trap instead of their usual shady manipulations… Robert has sided with them which will explain why the border guards haven't given the capital any reports regarding all this".

Orson's eyes widened, on his message Sylas didn't mention anything like this, if his cousin was involved then things were worse than what he thought.

"T-then we must apprehend him, although he doesn't have the master key to the spirit formations around the border, he has influence over the guards of many cities".

Aster was confused by Orson's words so he interrupted.

"I though he was the one in charge of the border, how come he doesn't have control over the spirit formations?".

Sylas smiled.

"Because he is the one in charge only in the surface, the guardian of the borders is none other than me, the reason is quite simple I'm one of the only five peak stage star vertex realm cultivators in Luonto, and the only survivor from the generals that participated in the previous war where the former king and the archduke passed away", he explained.

Orson clenched his teeth, his parents and Robert parents fought and died repelling the Riga continent and right now one of their descendants was likely to be a traitor.

"I want to hear what he has to say…".

Sylas shook his head.

"Idiot, do you think they came alone, if the woman that is with him is from the Riga continent, considering they are staying in the capital they are for sure in company of a black general… in other words a peak star vertex cultivator like me".

"You will stay in the castle where your ass is protected by a ton of spirit formations, instead call the captain of the royal guard and things will be even, I will face whoever old monster that came, the captain will fight against the woman and Sarina will take care of Robert".

Orson nodded but then he noticed that Aster and Alice were not mentioned which did make sense since they were probably at most core array cultivators, but he felt curious as to why his uncle brought them to the castle if that was the case.

"Okay, just a question how are they going to participate, do you want me to assign them a vice captain just in case?", he said while pointing at Aster and Alice.

Sarina answered this time.

"They will help us if it is need it, besides that Kana will be in charge of them, because I'm 100% sure I can trust them".

Orson felt a bit insulted.

"I know right now it might not be the best moment to mention it, but although I'm a Millefiore like him, I would die before betraying the land for which my father bleed, sister in… Sarina".

Orson was going to call Sarina "sister-in-law", out of reflect but he felt her gaze piercing him like a spear which made him call her by her name instead.

Sylas smiled, "I'm sorry my old friend, this time I won't impose anything on my daughter", he thought referring to Robert's father which was the only reason as to why he married her with him.

Orson took out his communication talisman and send a message to the captain of the royal guards.

"Bring the crown defending squad with you to the palace immediately".

Every kingdom had its elite soldiers, a team which loyalty was absolute, in Riga's case it was the assassin's team to which Lynn belonged to, for Luonto, it was an aggrupation of royal guards which were under a sever soul oath, in total they were 100 soldiers in the star axys realm and the captain which was in the early stage of the star tribulation realm.

After a couple of minutes, they left the room and were received by a group of soldiers wearing green armors, when they saw their king, they immediately bowed.

"We greet the king!!!".

While most of them kneeled down, the captain left the formation an approached Orson and Sylas.

"The royal guard's captain, Karl Cuoriole greets the king and the guardian of the border", said the man.

Sylas smiled.

"It's been a long time since I saw you kid, but now is not time to catch up, dispatch half of the soldiers around the capital and tell the other half to surround Archduke's Robert mansion, the enemies are spies from the Riga continent so take that into consideration, until further notice they are allowed to capture or neutralize any suspicious person, noble or commoner understood?".

Karl nodded; the soldiers divided into ten teams of ten people each one leaded by a peak star axys cultivator before they left the palace to fulfill their orders.

Sylas patted Orson's shoulder.

"Stay here and wait for our good news", he said before all of them left the throne room, since they first needed to confirm what was happening the soldiers will remain hidden to give the enemy a false sensation of security.

Before they reached Robert's mansion Sylas patted Kana's head.

"No matter what happens later, remember your mother and me will always be your family… also you are probably getting new people you can trust", he said while stealing some glances at Aster.

Aster had a serious expression on his face, before they left the space ship Sylas asked him to please take Kana and Sarina and leave this place in case everything went to hell.

The captain of the royal guards took off his armor and put on some casual clothes to not stand out, in the way they saw people living their lives normally without knowing the storm that was about to affect them, unfortunately they couldn't inform the public about it to not alert the spies.

Sylas suddenly stopped walking, a couple of meters away from them there was a big mansion, most of the lights were turned off and there were some guards patrolling to show that no one has noticed them.

"I will go first; Karl and Sarina wait for them to reveal before acting, ok?".

They nodded and Sylas disappeared with a flash, a couple of seconds later a loud voice echoed through the whole city.

"ROBERT, GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE IMMEDIATELY!!!".

A huge amount of spirit pressure fell all over the mansion and some of the defensive spirit formations activated but they started failing not too long after.

Aster laughed.

"This old man is quite something", he said.

All the presents with the exception of Kana were able to see that Robert left his mansion almost immediately, his clothes and hair were a mess but he still had that "upright" expression on his face, he floated in the air a couple of meters in front of Sylas.

"Senior Sylas, why are you causing such a commotion this late in the night?".

Sylas shook his head, this time he didn't scream but his voice still reached all the capital city.

"I can feel one of those poisonous old monsters close to you so stop pretending, and you two pieces of shit from the Riga continent come out and have a "nice chat" with this old man".

Robert's expression finally changed, next to him two figures appeared, one was a black-haired woman using revealing clothes and the other one was an old man wearing a black robe which covered his whole body leaving just a part of his face visible.

The woman who was using a large pipe to smoke, took the initiative to speak.

"I wonder how the rumored "Luonto's sword", suddenly appeared here to interrupt my night fun, when you are supposed to be in your own city?".

He didn't answer, instead he extended his hand and a strong gust of wind swept away the smoke from the pipe, which made the woman put on a disgusted expression.

Sylas showed disdain towards the woman, he directly saw the old man wearing the robe before saying.

"Witch, I was already old when you were born so you can forget about using those little tricks in front of me".

The old man in the robe smiled showing his yellow teeth, his body started letting out some kind of black mist.

"Lyre, start the operation, I will deal with this muscle head", he said before flying upwards disappearing in the clouds followed by Sylas.

The woman took out a talisman but before she could say anything a fire arrow passed a few centimeters away from her body destroying the talisman in the process.

Robert's face became ugly, he saw the captain of the royal guard flying at them and he wasn't alone… Sarina was also coming.

"What the hell happened in Oak Heart city", he thought.

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