Just as Daniel was falling into despair, the half death beaten guy next to Dry Bone suddenly opened his eyes and shouted.
"The escape talisman hurry up!".
Then without saying anything else, Julius's body inflated and then contracted until his skin was stuck to his bones, the ground quaked and the space around Julius became unstable, as cracks appeared on it.
Dry Bone who was the nearest to Julius became minced meat even before he had the chance to scream.
Seeing that Daniel became a flash of light which shot itself at the sky, Julius who now looked like a mummy creepily smiled at Aster, who was still calmly holding onto Lilia's waist.
"Even if you escape this planet, this whole star cluster will be going down with me, that's what you get for messing with the Ludic Domination sect, I'm just sad that I won't see my older brother deleting this stellar system once Daniel tells him what happened…".
While Julius detonated his inner universe his last seconds of life were full of horror as he saw a huge mostly black inked metal gate of about half a kilometer size, with decorations of different types of dragons engraved all over its surface, with the exception of the center of the upper arc where there were two dragons next to each other, one black and the other one golden, standing tall behind Lilia.
'P-Princess of the Drage family!', were the last words Julius thought, before his body exploded.
But as the explosion was about to expand and obliterate Tellaria, Lilia made an elegant gesture with her pretty fingers and the world seemed to lost its color, her hair whose color is deep black by innate, got a few tones darker, attracting all the light from the surrounding area, as she softly spoke.
"Dragon Suppressing Seal~", Lilia's melodious voice echoed through the sky, and is if it was a command from the Heavenly Law itself, the explosion resulting from Julius's self-detonating his inner universe stopped expanding, and compressed until it became the size of a marble with a black dragon emblem on it.
Even the cracks on the space that was tearing a moment ago, retreated as if they were showing reverence for the black gate which started faded behind Lilia.
A couple of seconds later, the cracks on the space closed and besides a part of the mountain in the direction where Julius was laying down which collapsed and Dry Bone whose body was now just stains of blood on the ground, everything was perfectly okay.
Lilia turned to see her son, with a "compliment me" expression on her pretty face, which made Aster chuckle.
He grabbed Lilia's chin and planted a kiss on her pretty lips.
"Hmm~", Lilia closed her eyes and enjoyed her son's caresses, unfortunately all good things must come to an end, and after a few seconds, Aster stopped the kiss earning a pout from her.
Her silky long black hair which seemed to be radiating spirit energy, making it look as if black flames were crowning her, returned to normal and the black gate behind here completely disappeared.
Aster inwardly shook his head and then looked at the black gate whose design was pretty interesting, this was the first time he saw Lilia's Gate Transcending realm trait, of course that small detail of a golden dragon standing next to a black one on the highest and most centered spot didn't escape his eyes.
"What do you think darling, I created that technique myself after reaching the Gate Transcending realm", said Lilia as she rubbed her face against Aster's.
"I broke the shackles in my secondary cultivation path thanks to you darling, so of course I had to homage your "efforts"~", Lilia then cutely stuck her tongue at him, making Aster chuckle.
He didn't know whether he should laugh or cry, those efforts she mentioned often ended in his back ending covered in nail marks, when his mother let her passion take over, which happened practically every time since she noticed he didn't dislike the rough passionate lovemaking characteristic of dragon races.
And that also somehow contributed to how much of his yang she managed to use to nurture her body, despite not having a dual cultivation technique, which combined with her lineage strengthening led to her breakthrough to the Gate Transcending realm.
"Ahem, we can play later, bring that guy down so we can end this mission".
"Mm", Lilia nodded and with a wave of her hand, a black net became visible on the sky before a figure clad in white light was forced to descend from the sky.
"Aghhh!", Daniel whose face was pale as paper crashed against the ground, breaking all the bones in his body due to the impact.
"How can it be, Heavenly Transformation cultivators can't enter this stellar system, then how can someone block an escape talisman created by the ancestor…", Daniel kept blabbering some things until he saw Aster walking towards him, with a sword in his hand.
"Wait, I'll leave this stellar system and will never return, spare my life!".
Aster completely ignored Daniel and prepared his sword to finish him, noticing that he would die no matter what Daniel's eyes became bloodshot and getting some of his courage back, he shouted.
"You righteous cultivators are all double faced hypocrites, you killed my subordinate, my uncle and me for some bitched I can bet you don't even know!".
Aster snorted.
"I never declared myself a righteous cultivator, the reason you are going to die is because, you are pretty much a piece of trash which is an eyesore for me, a stone in my path so to speak, it's as simple as that".
While Dry Bone had a faint trace of the mark left by causing suffering and pain to others, which he could see due to the purity of his soul energy, Daniel didn't but that didn't mean he was a decent person.
With his sharp sense of smell from the very moment he met Daniel, noticed the strong scent of residual aphrodisiacs that lingered around him, not all the evil sects focused on torturing or taking things the hard way, there were some who used this kind of tactics to avoid being "marked", as the other party would offer itself after their minds were corrupted.
That's probably how Daniel and probably Julius managed to enter Galatia without raising any waves or rumors, besides looking lecherous due to the practices they upheld, they were just yang centered cultivators, which wasn't illegal.
Not giving Daniel the time to answer, Aster swung his sword and beheaded him, while the sect won't disclosure the details of the mission, he would still get a better reward considering he caught a "big fish", besides the Dry Bone bandits.
"Speaking of that…", Aster let go of Lilia and then slashed his sword cutting a large rectangular opening on the mountain, there below large quantities of dust and some pieces of rocks, a golden dome protected the cages where the disciples and all the women kidnapped were being retained.
Aster changed the dome to just a rectangular platform above the cages and then slashed the bars of the cages, he kept Daniel's corpse in a disposable spatial ring, so that the girls in the cages wouldn't know what happened to him.
"It's safe now, we'll be leaving in a bit".
All the girls left the cages with slightly hesitant expressions as if they couldn't believe they actually survived, what they considered a sentence of death almost one hundred percent secure.
The first one leave the cages was Dahlia, she urged her juniors to follow her and they all flew out of the mountain descending a few meters from Aster and Lilia.
After being marveled by Lilia's beauty, she slightly shook her head and then bowed towards them.
"Thanks for avenging our comrades and saving our lives… unfortunately I don't have anything worth enough to repay a winged core disciple, but if you need a guide at the Alchemy Peak, I'll be more than happy to give you a tour".
The other girls from the Green Lotus faction giggled and whispered some things between each other, seeing Dahlia handing Aster the contact of her communication talisman, but they all stopped after being glared by Dahlia.
Aster accepted the contact and then remembered there was an extra reward from an inner elder.
"Perhaps is the elder Helena your teacher, she offered an extra reward", asked Aster, out of all the girls kidnapped, Dahlia was the strongest having reached the middle stage of the Star Tribulation realm, so if anyone was a disciple of an elder, then it had to be her.
And Aster's supposition wasn't that far from the truth, Dahlia's expression became warm after listening to Aster.
"She is my aunt, unlike other elders she is completely centered in the study of spirit herbs, so her battle capacities aren't that high… she was probably the one that requested the sect to publish the mission", she mumbled.
Now that the commotion was over, the girls returned to Aster's side, Felicia and Alice were the first ones, judging by their satisfied expressions they had a fun time fighting the other bandits.
'I found the treasury this time, how did you do, ice princess~', said Alice through the mental connection.
'Humph, I killed more bandits than you, next time I'll take a mission alone with Aster'.
Listening to the girls comparing their finds and contributions Aster bitterly smiled.
'All of you come here, we'll review the loot later at the spaceship, the last one to return will be left out of tonight's fun…', before Aster finished speaking, all the girls landed next to him, including Eris, Mylene, Camila, Kana and even Agnes who saw Aria and Sarina rushing towards Aster side as if her life depended on it and followed her thinking there was some kind of emergency.
The last ones to return were Erick and Sofia, who were the most savage looking ones of the group since their fighting styles were mostly close combat, Erick had some cuts on his clothes here and there, his upper clothes were practically rags at this point, Sofia on the other hand had blood stains all over her armor.
Alice frowned at the amount of now freed hostages and the fact that they were all girls in the prime of their ages, she even spotted some whose gazes she easily recognized, so she immediately walked towards Aster and hugged his right arm before gazing at them like a lioness who protects her prey.
'I'll have to be more careful in the next missions', thought Alice.
Aster let his spirit sense roam all over the mountain range, the concealment formation disappeared since part of the mountains collapsed, and since Alice said she looted the treasury, he only looked for any signs of living beings.
After not finding anything, he nodded at Lilia who took out her spaceship, with a snap of her fingers she transported all the previous hostage girls to a specific room and limited them to not leave as well as Agnes, to calm them down if needed, of course they had all the commodities needed, so there shouldn't be too much of a problem.
"Let's go", Aster flew towards the spaceship followed by the others and once they entered, the gate closed and the spaceship became a flash which shot itself to the sky.
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