The remaining subordinates of Rox and Ley saw the portal to their home closing and the last traces of hope they had, died at the spot, making their faces become lifeless.
Unfortunately for them, besides being suppressed by Mylene, no one paid them any attention.
Natasha and Charlotte could feel their portals trying to drag them in, just like what happened to Kai and Merkel, and they both had unconvinced expressions.
It was clear they didn't want to part ways with Aster, their protectors stared at each other and they sighed as they looked at them like mothers who look at their children growing up, though they weren't from the main family, their branches are the most loyal helpers of theirs, so they are like nieces for them.
"We'll go ahead, don't take too long young miss", said Natasha's protector as she jumped into the portal, followed by Charlotte's one who just nodded at Aster.
Needless to say, but both Natasha and Charlotte where surprised to see their "strict" protectors, who were more like their aunts, give them this little gift.
At the other side of the portal their mothers were waiting for them, and the spatial distortion back at the Divine Feather Firmament would only change into a portal once someone was using it to travel, so they bought them a couple more of minutes to spend with Aster.
Both of them immediately approached Aster, Kana giggled and then moved aside to give these although temporal fun to play with "sisters", the stage.
"I have to go… will you go to visit us once you enter the Divine Firmaments?", asked Natasha, in a rare for her, shy and slightly sad voice.
Charlotte didn't say anything, but her eyes were filled with emotions, something no one has seen before, as unlike the other women from the Moon Stream Luan clan, she is pretty reserved and besides Natasha, she actually doesn't even talk with anyone, instead she spends her time in the library of her family.
For a moment Aster didn't know how to answer, it's not like he didn't want to visit them when he had the chance to, as they were really likeable and had a pretty "unique" way to approach him.
But he doesn't know where will he end up appearing once they leave the Dragon Legacy Heavenly Quadrant, there was also Eris and Mylene to take into account, he previously promised them to go visit their native land, and the travel at that scale apparently could take years even with the best of the best in transportation treasures.
But seeing those pretty faces, inquiring him, he inwardly shrugged.
'Whatever, since when have I let anything be an obstacle when I'm interested in a girl', he thought.
'That's true, formerly married or blood related, you never cared~', added Rya, whose breathing was slightly different than usual.
Aster then smiled and crossed his heart as he answered.
"I'll go you have my word, in the meantime have this", as Aster said that, he handed them another small bottle with the result of a big amount of his blood purified by Rigel's flames.
"Last time I was returning the favor… this time is a gift and a sign that I won't go back from my word", he said.
Natasha and Charlotte didn't even hesitate as they snatched the bottles, from Aster's hands, they bot sweetly smiled and without any warning kissed each one of Aster's cheeks at the same time.
Needless to say, but they took Aster by surprise, their kisses left a lips mark made out of flames and an ice respectively, which lasted for a couple of seconds.
But that's not what took Aster by surprise, but the two torrents of information that entered his mind.
[Fire Phoenix Sun Ruling Wings]
[Ice Phoenix Moon Lustrous Wings]
Aster didn't follow through what he just received, but he was sure as hell those were cultivation manuals, and they were both of the maximum quality for those at the Mortal realm, in other words Heavenly Conquerors and below, rivaling with the manuals all the girls and he had.
"Fire Phoenix Sun Glorious Wings", said Natasha.
"Ice Phoenix Moon Pristine Wings", added Charlotte.
"Those are our manuals, and the ones we gave to you are their complementary techniques, the techniques we give to our main, or only partners, so that they can make the most of dual cultivating with us~", said Natasha as she winked at Aster.
"Mm, we can only give them to one person in our whole lives, as they are a part of ourselves, we can never harm the one we give them to, that's the blessing our ancestors left for us", added Charlotte.
Aster's eyes widened a bit, it was similar to the way Eris did an oath with the Cosmos Tree as a witness, though she hadn't explained more about it, she did say it was something she could only do once in her lifetime.
Then before Aster could say anything, Natasha and Charlotte both kissed his cheeks once again before they jumped into the portal, not without saying.
"We'll be waiting for you, if you dare to not come to "get" us, we can only become single bitter women~", as always Natasha was pretty direct and playful with what she wanted.
"Mm, I'll become a ghost to haunt you", Charlotte on the other hand was a bit more expressive when she was around Aster."
Kana couldn't help but giggle at Aster's sightly lost expression.
"Those sisters are really funny big brother~".
"Yes, they are", mumbled Aster as he saw the portal closing and the spatial distortion disappearing.
Ixas approached Aster and nodded at him.
"I'll be taking my leave too, I pray that mother Gaia allow us to meet again", he said as he jumped into another portal.
Aster returned the nod and then looked at the sky from which the red-haired Iris was returning with the battered figure of Victor.
"Sorry this poisonous idiot didn't try to fight and just ran away, so it took me some time to catch him", she said as she threw Victor who was all beaten up to the ground in front of Aster.
Despite his battered state, he was perfectly fine, which made Aster raise an eyebrow.
"The sect should be the one deciding his fate, since he betrayed our Stellar System", said Iris, she knew Aster would have probably killed Victor, and she was going to do it in the heat of the moment, because he used his friend Rina which was in love with him as a payment for the orcrary, who gave her as food to the beast they were riding, but her maids stopped her from doing so.
The reason is that Victor's family is… problematic, and they didn't want their young miss to be marked and targeted by them, so they actually offered themselves to deal the killing blow, which mean that if trouble arise, they would just turn in themselves to end the matter, but of course Iris wasn't willing to use them as disposable pawns, so she only beat the crap out of Victor and left the final punish to the sect.
Aster didn't blame her, everyone had their own problems to deal with, that being said, an enemy already escaped from him today and even if the heavens themselves tried to save Victor, he wasn't going to let them, besides he sold them and he should pay for that.
"I don't blame you, but I don't like the idea of enemies coming back to bite me, so he won't be leaving this place", said Aster as he swung his sword at Victor.
"No wait, my cousin is....", feeling the scythe of the grim reaper approaching him, Victor tried to scare Aster away, but the sword didn't stop and pierced his chest before his body exploded in blue flames, which left nothing of him.
Of course, Iris, was a bit in shock that Aster killed Victor just like that, but then a realization hit her like a bolt out of the blue.
'Merciless, fierce and domineering… just like his sword intent, once his sword is out an enemy is bound to bleed', she had a lot to think about right now, so she simply walked aside and waited for the group to leave as a whole through the portal.
Aster then walked towards Ley and Rox subordinates, all of them were secondary branches members, so he couldn't make them talk, they couldn't even suicide because Mylene was suppressing them, after crippling their cultivations.
Aster simple swag his sword and killed them all, before using Rigel's flames to burn their corpses, he then walked towards Ley's sister.
Her expression was lifeless even in the face of death, she idolized Ley and when he abandoned her, her mind broke, even if he asked her some things, she didn't answer, still Aster didn't feel even the slightest ounce of pity for her, she wanted to kill Kana to use her as resource.
'Count yourself lucky that I'm out of annihilation… also it would be too much of a waste', thought Aster as he killed her and also burned her corpse with Rigel's flames, he waved his hand after a couple of seconds and then all the flames returned to his body, there was nothing left from the corpses.
"Let's go", said Aster.
"Mm", the girls nodded, Iris's maids brought the third one who was wounded, while Vivian approached Aster's group too, of course Kana, Mylene and Camila stayed close to him too, Kana even hugged him, while Mylene, Camila and Vivian grabbed Aster's shoulders and back.
Aster chuckled, he used the paragon body to attach them all to him, just in case the portal tried to separate them, before they all jumped into it.
'Goodbye', said the Emerald Whirlwind in a voice only Kana and Aster could hear, as they left the secret realm, which had started destroying itself once they left.
…
While they were travelling through the dimensional tunnel, Aster closed his eyes and entered the mind space, because no matter how could he not notice Rya participated in that last attack he did when he sent the sword into the portal, and of course he noticed she was out of breath when she talked earlier.
Once he was inside, he immediately flew towards the highest point of Hyperion, where he found a beaty leisurely laying down, while she was "sleeping", Aster licked his lips and then jumped into the bed and started kissing Rya's neck, softly advancing to her chest and then navel slowly going down, but then Rya suddenly stopped him, with a flushed face.
"Wuuuhh, wait Aster~", she said with a pleading voice.
Only then Aster stopped, and then laid down with Rya cuddling with him.
"Why did you do that, you are tired now", asked Aster, another couple of strands of her hair had turned silver.
Rya pressed her pretty lips against Aster's as she answered.
"It's related to some of the things I can only tell you when I'm out of the mind space… but don't worry, what I used was the annihilation radiated by Hyperion, I'm just a bit tired because I controlled it in my current state, instead of using mine~".
Aster looked into Rya's eyes which were now a combination of silver like her grown self and golden like the ones of her young self, and noticed she was telling the truth, he has done something similar before, and controlling Hyperion's annihilation was harder than using his, so it made sense she got tired after that.
Aster nodded and then kissed Rya's forehead, while he caressed her silky hair, soon without her noticing she actually fell asleep in his arms.
Aster wanted to stay with her, but unfortunately some matters in the outside world required his attention.
'Whoever is it, it's so going to regret interrupting me right now', he thought as left the mind space, opening his eyes in the outside world.
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