A few second later after inside of the spatial gate, Aster and the girls gathered in the living area of the spaceship, Agnes had already set the coordinates to the border station of Galatia, once they arrive, they can take the spatial gate to the Fritz Stellar System.
Aster saw the girls waiting for him to speak and he softly smiled, he took a seat next to Aria who leaned against his shoulder, these chances to venture though had had the purpose of helping everyone gain experience and getting stronger, they also had another reason.
To get a treasure or resource they needed, like previously the Emerald Whirlwind and now one of the materials for Rya's body, not to mention his girls also used it as a chance to spend time "alone" with Aster.
Not in the meaning of being just the two of them, but more like having him to spoil only them, the last time it was Alice the one who had Aster for herself, Sarina and Kana joined them, but they only became part of the family later on, after Alice had her fill of Aster's love after all.
So, this time, it was Aria's turn to enjoy, even if others tagged along, the only one that will be sleeping with Aster was her, and so she was all smiles right now, well that is if you don't take into account the fact that Lilia can come to play with Aster in the mind space at any time.
"So, what's the goal this time Aster?", asked Eris with her usual calm yet happy expression.
Aster who was flirting with Aria, turned around and then raised four of his fingers before saying.
"Diamond Bone Orchid, I must obtain it no matter what and the place where the mission I accepted takes place, has the perfect soil for it to grow, a land where yang, earth, nature and… death converge".
Eris nodded, unfortunately she didn't know too much about spirit herbs of the mortal realms, she then raised an eyebrow as she asked.
"Wait, if your goal was a spirit herb, why not bring Mylene instead, I'm not an alchemist you know?".
Aster smiled in response.
"I already asked her and she also had no idea of anything related to this specific herb, not to mention it was your turn to come, in any case I'm pretty sure there are formations surrounding the whole place to spy on us, so I'll need your help to mess with them".
Eris chuckled, how could Mylene who has seen the list of materials Aster is looking for, and has investigated about them in her free time, not know anything, she obviously just wanted her to come this time.
'Hmph, you just not want to be the only one to lose… but thanks', she thought.
Aster saw Eris's happy expression and he inwardly nodded, Mylene knew Eris would have given her place to her, if she knew about the Orchid, but there was no need for that, since even if she came nothing would have changed, only men can approach that herb due to its extreme yang nature after all.
"Besides I brought our family's lucky charm with us, so won't the treasures come to present at our feet", playfully said Aster as he gazed at Camila, making her blush.
"Heh, and what is our task, dear young master~", asked Felicia.
Aster took out a small note book which Valentina handed him back then at the restaurant, this mission might haven't been completed before, but other missions regarding the Extreme Silicon Forest have been done by some other disciples.
The current first ranked disciple being one of them, and so she had taken some notes about the place for future references, as to why Valentina had it on her, that is because her disciple won it as a result of a battle with the first ranked and she made a copy, which she gave to Aster.
"Cultivation is restricted to the Mortal Transcending realm, but that only applies to the outer area of the forest, for the middle area the seal gets looser up to the Sea of Knowledge, and then there is the deep area where Genesis Manifestation realm is allowed".
"The problem is that the dangers on the three areas are above the realms allowed, so at most the middle area has been shallowly explored so far".
Agnes frowned, this method of doings things sounded familiar to her, then her eyes glowed for a second and then she smiled.
"This way of training the young generation comes from a specific high ranked Stellar System, they basically want to nurture people who can cross realms to fight, what surprises me is that the Fritz had no relation to them as far as I knew, but maybe one of the members of the ruler family was accepted in the guardian sect of those guy's Stellar System", she said.
It made sense, for those in the high ranked Stellar Systems, the Transcending realms are still considered part of the young generations, besides the peak ones of course, and only those who have entered the Heavenly realms are considered experts.
Aster softly snorted, all these conditions set in the Silicon Forest were probably requested by the backer of the Fritz, though they allowed others to participate as well, it is obvious the disciples from a high ranked Stellar System will have a higher battle prowess compared to the ones of a middle ranked one.
And still, they haven't gotten past the middle area of the forest, which picked Aster's interest.
"Whatever, it doesn't matter since everyone in this room is far stronger than their realms, am I right, ladies?", said Aster with a smile.
The girls laughed, this time he brought Camila and Felicia who can deal with Genesis Manifestation cultivators, while being in the Mortal Transcending realm, not to mention Eris who shouldn't have problem facing Law Integration cultivators.
As for the young generation, Aria and Tiana won't be defeated by any regular Mortal Transcended, and he can destroy them with ease, so in terms of battle prowess he wasn't afraid of anyone in the young generation from the high ranked Stellar Systems.
"Only our realms will be suppressed, the Fritz Stellar System is a paradise for body path cultivators, so you can expect their physical bodies to be stronger than others, even without cultivating, their bases are strong which means their results are better than others".
Unlike the energy path where talent is often considered the top priority, for body cultivators will, effort and perseverance are the key, though talent or resources can make the path easier for them, there are some maniacs who train hard enough to make up for the difference.
Like those guys who put their bodies through immense amounts of stress, in order to reinforce it for example, the body path is the bloodiest out of the three, and it is said that it was invented for "commoners", but that is a prejudice that disappeared hundreds of thousands of years ago, since Astral Palace level cultivators were born.
That's just how it works, in the end results have a lot of weight in people's opinions, even if one started as a janitor in the outer sect, the glory received by becoming a core disciple won't be less, since ultimately strength is the golden rule of the cultivation world.
"Anyway, I'll give you a draw of how the Orchid looks like, if you find it, don't try to approach it and just come looking for me okay?".
"Mm", the girls nodded, if Aster told them this, then there must be a good reason, since he won't harm them, and also, he has never been stingy with resources, everything they asked for, it is given to them with sincerity, that's the kind of treatment they get as his family and friends.
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It didn't take them but a couple of hours to reach the station at the border of Galatia, where they were received with the utmost respect, though Julian didn't put the emblem of his family on Aster's spaceship, he informed the ones in charge of all the places managed by his family, the exact appearance of the spaceship and gave them the order of treating the owner as if they were seeing him.
It was to the point that the city lord himself came to welcome them and open the spatial gate personally.
"Vivian's uncle is quite cunning, I bet he did all this since Vivian is going to travel in this spaceship a lot", mumbled Aria.
Aster heard her and he perversely smiled as he hugged Aria from behind before whispering to her.
"Is my cute Aria feeling jealous?".
Aria blushed in Aster's embrace, but she remained silent, which made Aster want to tease her more, just like the old days when they met.
"Well, I do admit that Vivian's frail appearance and her white skin and hair are quite pretty, but isn't my cute Aria the same, just look at this smooth jade like skin and this silky unique hair".
Aria felt the gazes of the other girls falling on her and her face reddened.
"A-Aster the others are lookin…mn~", Aria let out a cute startled sound, when Aster gently bit her neck and also caressed a lock of her pretty platinum blue hair and smelled it, as he spoke to her through the mental connection.
'Not to mention the unmatched "sweetness" of my Aria'.
At this point, Aria's face was red as an apple, she looked freaking cute, enough to even make the other girls feel a bit ashamed of looking at her.
Aster laughed and then carried Aria in his arms like a princess, as he turned to see the others.
"I'll take my leave ladies, since it seems I have some urgent matters to tend to, feel free to use the facilities of the spaceship and properly rest since we will have a lot of things to do once we arrive at our destination", happily said Aster, as he left walking with Aria in his arms, towards his room.
"…"
The girls were speechless, it's not like they didn't know about Aster's perverted tendencies, since they were friends now, and they have talked enough with Alice and the others, but still to think he will just be doing such things in broad daylight, it was a bit too much for these maidens who haven't experienced love.
"Luckily, I have this coat with me or… I wouldn't be able to sleep", mumbled Camila, making Eris bitterly smile.
"I wonder how did you survive the previous mission, since none of "them" went with him, and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't lay those wolf paws of his on Kana?", asked Eris, even she who considers herself pretty mature for her age, was slightly blushed after witnessing such a scene.
Camila giggled, remembering the fact that they all slept in the same room, including Vivian, Mylene and even herself.
"I guess this is part of the reason as to why we all follow him", she said.
Naturally Eris was joking, if Aster was such kind of person, they wouldn't be so comfortable as they are when being around him.
Felicia who was the only one rather calm, looked at her daughter who was also completely red and she inwardly gave Aster thumbs up.
After that little episode, and ignoring the sweet cries of Aria who were properly contained by the walls of Aster's room, the rest of the travel went on pretty much uneventful, everyone had their own trainings and things to do, so besides gathering for their meals, in which Felicia was the star of the show, being the chef, they pretty much followed their own routines.
And before they noticed, they were about to arrive at the end of the space tunnel, which means the travel was coming to an end.
Aster who was standing next to a window saw the end of the space tunnel a few hundreds of meters away and he nodded, Agnes was piloting and she reduced the speed, since they didn't know what the other side of the gate was like, there could be other people waiting nearby.
The other girls saw Aria who standing next to Aster, her skin had a pretty healthy tone and her hair seemed to be glistening and brimming with life, her already beautiful appearance was accentuated even more, she was gorgeous.
"Damn, what did you to her in the past four days?", asked Tiana, she might put that much attention to her appearance normally, but there is no girl who wouldn't admire beauty.
Aria listened to that question and she gave Aster accusatory eyes, which made Aster softly laugh.
"Training, it's all part of the training to help Aria "improve" her natural physical strength, by the way I hope you haven't slacked in your soul training, you know what the punishment will be if you don't double the amount of time, you can maintain your parallel thinking against me, right", playfully said Aster.
Tiana felt a shiver running down her spine, she gave her mother an aggrieved gaze, she was the one who asked Aster to keep training Tiana, though that wasn't all.
Eric also pulled Aster aside and while smiling he gave Aster thumbs up as he said, "I'll leave mom and sis in your care brother hahaha!", naturally Eric meant that they looked quite happy recently, even his tyrannosaur-like sister only hit him once or twice, instead of beating him up to a pulp like usual.
Agnes came from the captain's cabin and the spaceship left the space tunnel, she approached the group as they appeared at the other side, in the border station of the Fritz Stellar System.
Aster who used his spirit sense to inspect outside of the spaceship, was surprised for a moment.
"Oh, I guess it's normal for the natives of this place to have strong physical bodies", mumbled Aster.
The spaceship landed on the port, since before leaving they had to identify themselves, thought the process will be smoother since they came from VIP space gate, instead of the public or commercial ones.
"Let's go stretch our legs ladies", said Aster as the door of the spaceship opened.
"Mm", the girls nodded, the travel only took around five days, and they didn't get bored or anything, but certainly humans aren't meant to be trapped in closed spaces for too long, and so they were happy to have a small rest outside.
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