"Booom!".
A loud exploding sound followed by a flash created by the clash of black, light blue, white, and golden spirit energies, filled a big part of the training area.
After a couple of seconds everything returned to normal revealing two "parties", one consisted on three girls who looked a bit messy, their hairs were slightly disheveled as well as their clothes who had several clean cuts.
Despite that, the three of them had quite excited expressions as they saw the other party, a black-haired youth who was pretty much the same.
Aster saw the battle frenzied expressions on those three's face and he smirked as he stretched his arms
"If you three are so wild, how do you expect to find a husband?".
Aria and Alice giggled and then jumped on Aster hugging him while they floated in the air, Tiana on the other hand bitterly smiled as she still wasn't used to this situation.
A few days ago, and to Felicia's surprise Aster told Tiana about the true nature of his relationship with the girls, Agnes was in her room at that time since she had no need to know about it.
In Tiana's case, since she will be living with them and her mother already knew about, then it was meaningless to keep it a secret.
Needless to say, but the notice hit her like a bolt out of the blue, but then she noticed none of the girls that turned out to be Aster's lovers were uncomfortable about Alice and Lilia being it too, so who was she to judge.
Also, she could somewhat relate to Alice, although her love for Erick wasn't romantic, she still cared for him a lot, if not she wouldn't have given up on the chance to become Agnes disciple if she didn't help Erick.
Which ended in Tiana, Alice and Aria becoming friends quite easily, their goal was quite simple, to defeat Aster in a battle, so from that moment onwards they have been sparring non-stop in order to get to this point where the match ended in a real tie.
Of course, Alice being Alice still enjoyed messing with Tiana from time to time.
"The only who has that problem is Tia, we already have you don't we?", said Alice as she lovingly rubbed her face against her brother's.
Tiana softly snorted as she flew out of the training floor, her clothes were about to disappear after that last clash, that and she still felt a bit weird after seeing them flirt at every chance.
Lilia who was enjoying the show with the others, with the exception of Agnes, nodded at Felicia.
"That girl of yours is quite something".
Felicia proudly smiled, but she inwardly shook her head, previously she never saw anyone on the younger generation who could catch up with Tiana, but now she saw a younger boy standing up to her plus another two who wouldn't lose to her daughter.
"I'm afraid I can't accept such a compliment, what did you feed your son to grow into such a monster… maybe Tiana can be fooled but I can say that although he was fighting seriously, that was still far from his limit".
Lilia giggled as she looked at her chest, for a moment she was tempted to joke about their breastfeeding sessions, but Aster interrupted as he landed with Alice and Aria near them.
"It's not like that miss Felicia, without any murderous intention, what you saw a moment ago is my current limit, but that also applies to these three", he said as he pointed at Alice and Aria who were clinging to him as well as the direction to where Tiana left.
Aster wasn't lying to make the girls look better, unless he used annihilation with the intention of killing or the soul crushing parade to lethally wound them, he was sure that he would not win against those three.
Alice also had the paragon body so she could easily physically match up with him and since she also had sword intent, she could block his ghost sword with hers, Aria on the other had Rigel's flames so when Aster tried to attack them with that, she could parry it with hers as well as blocking his soul attacks.
But that was only enough to reach a tie because those two had barely started to use their abilities as star maidens, and that's where Tiana marked the difference, annihilation was in Lilia's words probably the strongest attribute there might exist.
But that didn't mean there was no way to fight it, or Aster's battle prowess would not be limited to equal a Mortal Transcending realm cultivator, he needed a certain amount of annihilation to deal with the spirit energy of other people's attacks.
And Tiana's dantian was unusually large just like her mothers, her spirit energy was not only denser than others but her reserves and time of recovery were crazy too, that and she also had developed the first level of spear intent, today they were fighting against him for more than three hours straight.
Of course, Aster didn't cut them with his sword, each cut in their clothes was considered a "wound" so after a quick count, they still lost to him, but it was a close call.
Still the way Tiana complemented Alice and Aria's team wasn't the most surprising discover during this five day trip.
Aster quickly changed his shirt which was totally worn out, before he flew towards a separate area of the training floor.
The girls including Felicia followed him, arriving at a small mat on which a girl of about 12-13 years old was sitting cross legged, her pretty closed eyes frowned from time to time before she opened them and sighed.
"Big brother I can glimpse that glass-like blow I told you about, but I can't seem to manifest it, like you do with your sword".
Seeing Kana's pouting expression, Aster patted her head earning a smile from Kana.
Agnes who remained in the room to watch over Kana as well as Eris and Mylene were speechless.
After a few times of Aster showing her, his sword intent, she suddenly grabbed a training bow and was able to semi manifest a ghost bow, which made everyone's jaw drop.
Even Aster had to go through a lot of hardships which had helped him speed rush through the first two levels of sword intent, while even Aria and Tiana only had the first level of their respective weapon of choice.
The people of Prasil had no knowledge about intents, and the same applied to the Azure Sky Planet, resulting in Sarina, Camila and Kana being knew to it.
Aster expected Sarina to be the first one to develop her intent as she used to be a warrior of Sylas's army, or maybe even Camila considering she had a deep bond with treasures, but against all predictions, Kana was already showing hints of being a genius in the use of the bow.
"Seriously what kind of monster's den are you running here Aster", mumbled Felicia, he having mastered the second level of sword intent at such a young age was already outrageous, but he still trained in the way of the sword with Lilia since he was five years old.
Kana on the other hand just had the sudden urge to try out using a bow, and the result was she starting to understand its intent, it was something only heard in tales or legends.
Kana happily hummed as she hugged Aster, happy that she was one step ahead to get a wish from her to be fulfilled by Aster once she learned bow intent.
"Mm?", Lilia suddenly frowned noticing the spaceship was slowing down, which in other words meant they were finally reaching the end of their travel and were about to enter the Galatia stellar system.
Since a few other stellar systems, they stopped using the concealment formation, others couldn't say the grade of the spaceship, and also bigger spaceships started appearing as they entered the tunnel towards Galatia.
Aster even saw some kilometer sized spaceships which turned out to be some kind of "public" transport, only the rulers of the respective stellar system were allowed to implement such big sized spaceships as transport.
Not only because the cost of the spaceship was outrageously high, but the tunnel's space was also limited, so only the rulers gave themselves the right to exploit the market like that, of course there were also other minor options, but their spaceships were smaller and also, those who bought a ticket with them didn't have their safety guaranteed, in case bandits, mercenaries or evil cultivators attacked them.
"Miss Lilia, let me accompany you to the captain's cabin so that we can avoid the line".
Lilia nodded and both she and Agnes transported themselves to the captain's cabin.
Aster, Alice, Aria and Kana felt a bit sweaty so they went to the bathroom to refresh themselves, while the others simply went to their rooms to wait for the spaceship to arrive at the sect.
…
Outside of the spaceship, other people suddenly saw a black spaceship going upwards, while some parted way for it, there were a couple of people who refused to move and even were going to shout at them.
Until they saw a white flag with a black sword emblem projected above the spaceship, the Myriad Occupation sect is the ruler of Galatia after all, or that should have been the case, until a second flag was projected from another spaceship which didn't move.
The design was basically the same, but the sword emblem had a red color instead, the door of Lilia's spaceship opened and Agnes came out of it with a sword in her hand, which she slashed creating a red wave which collided against the spaceship's barrier making it tremble.
"People of the fire sword peak, do you dare to stand in my way!", she shouted.
The one who was piloting the other spaceship remained silent, before they slowly moved aside.
"Humph!", Agnes glared at the spaceship before she returned, making the other people mock of the losers.
Inside of the red sword flagged spaceship a red-haired middle-aged man gritted his teeth as he felt the gazes of the young people around him, and he couldn't help but inwardly curse.
'Fucking crazy woman… she was supposed to arrive tomorrow, why would she return before'.
Under the gazes of all the other captains of the spaceships, the black spaceship was allowed to immediately leave through the VIP space reserved for those with a special status.
A couple of minutes later a one-kilometer sized space gate appeared in the outer space from which Lilia's spaceship came out.
Aster who was coming out of the bathroom approached one of the many windows and his pupils contracted.
"How is that a "peak", those are planets", he mumbled.
In front of him there was a system of five huge planets above which there were floating castles of planetary proportions, four of them were at the same height and the last one which was in the middle was above the others.
Everything was connected by huge metal structures; it was an incredible sight to say the less.
Updat𝓮d from freew𝒆bnov𝒆l.co(m)