Chapter 580 Alice’s tail (part 2)
The next thing Alice saw was that she and Aster were floating in a dimensional tunnel, the fact that they didn't just appear at their destination in a matter of seconds, told her that they weren't moving within the Battle planet, nor the main planets of the other three peaks.
She was really curious about where Aster was taking her, but she didn't want to ruin the surprise, so Alice limited to jump into Aster's embrace and wait for the travel to finish.
Aster felt the cuddly sensation of her tail wrapping around his body and he softly smiled as he caressed Alice's hair, out of all the girls this wild sister of his is probably the most touchy, besides Lilia of course.
In fact, he is sure that if she could, she'll be stuck to him all the time, that's how much Alice loves him to the point of obsession, not like he minded, since the pair of dragon mother and sister were his first loves, so he does indeed have a soft spot for them.
"Now that I think about it, we haven't done it within a dimensional tunnel before, have we~", seductively said Alice as she gazed at Aster, who bitterly smiled.
Alice is not only wild enough to jump at him in any place, as long as there are no outsiders observing, but also do it without caring if the other girls are looking.
If it wasn't for the fact that she knew Aster wouldn't budge, she would be jumping on him at any part of the mansion.
Of course, Aster isn't exactly a conservative person, he has done it with them in the outside before, like that time on the forest of the valley, or when they went to that half volcanic, half frozen area, but those were controlled situations where he was sure no one could spy or accidentally bump into them.
And that wasn't the case in the dimensional tunnel, as there is a chance that they end up leaving before predicted and who knows if there will be others, where they will appear, or not, which is why he poked Alice's forehead to then "scold" her.
"Don't be a "glutton" you just ate early in the morning so be good and wait until night", he said.
Alice pouted but then she cunningly smiled as she used her tail to bring Aster even closer to her, so that her plump butt will hardly press against him not to mention she even grinded it in a lewd way.
"Oh well, I guess I'll have to make do with a small "snack" for the time being~", she cutely said as she leaned backwards against Aster's chest.
Aster chuckled but he didn't stop her, in fact he just wrapped his arms around her thin waist and gently caressed her tail, which made Alice's body twitch a couple of times.
Her tail tightened its grip around Aster's body as if to express its happiness, due to what it was being done to it.
"Heh, so you have a cute side to you unlike my crude wild sister", jokingly said Aster as he rubbed Alice's tail a couple of times.
"Hey… who is c-crude", mumbled Alice with a stuttering voice which only made Aster smirk, both Lilia's wings as well as Alice's tail are really sensitive to his touch, in fact the same applied to Sarina's wings.
According to Lilia, in the Drage family having one's wings become harmless with someone, means that you have absolute trust in that person, it's something usually seen between couples.
But normally it's not to the point to what she, Alice and Sarina are experiencing with Aster, which might be explained by the fact that they are Star Maidens, meaning they will be as compatible with Aster as it is possible at their level, as a proof of it, the abilities of their stars can't harm Aster and Aster's annihilation doesn't harm them either.
"Uhhh~", with Alice letting out comfortable sounds, while her tail was caressed by Aster, the travel soon reached its end, and she had to unwillingly let go of Aster, just to brightly smile as she heard Aster whispering at her.
"I'll play with it later, who knows it might grow "stronger" like these did", he said as he poked at Alice's right breast, making her giggle.
Leaving the flirting aside for a moment, Alice returned to hold onto Aster's right arm as the exited the dimensional tunnel, the scenery changed form the fresh and lowly illuminated tunnel to a brighter and hotter environment.
Alice observed her surroundings, they had appeared on a planet with four nearby hot stars, creating an environment with a really high temperature, it was to the point that anyone below the Sea of Knowledge realm wasn't supposed to come here and yet neither Alice nor Aster showed any sign of being uncomfortable at all.
"Mm, this will work, did you perhaps brought me here so that I would have to wear lighten clothes~", she teasingly said as she slightly raised the skirt of her dress.
Aster chuckled in response, this planet was among the ones with the highest structural strength among the low Stellar grade planets that the Battle peak possessed, due to the high temperatures to which it has been submitted to for who knows how many years, the ground had been melted and fused quite a few times until it became strong enough for it not to melt under the light of those suns.
In the past the Silicon Forest would have been like that, but with the formation malfunctioning, the yin spirit beasts made it become brittle.
"Well, only a really small number of disciples come here and as for elders, they don't have anything to gain, since the spirit energy and challenges in this planet, are only a threat for those at the Genesis Manifestation or below, so we'll mostly have it for ourselves", said Aster.
Technically this planet was under the management of the Red Sword faction, he got to know about it from Iris, since she came here to train quite often as its perfect for fire attributed cultivators, and those who wish to increase their stamina, training under the scorching heat was a really harsh yet effective way to develop one's physical body after all.
'Despite the high temperature, those suns don't radiate yang like the stars I obtained from those idiots', thought Aster only to hear Rya softly laughing from within the mind space.
'If obtaining yang or yin stars was easy, they would have repaired that array before'.
'Hehehe, as expected of my darling, he stole a real treasure for our sake~', naturally Lilia who had entered the mind space, to sneak a peek at her beloved son, also participated in the conversation.
Aster could feel Alice's sharp gaze on him, she could somewhat tell when Lilia was interacting with him, which is something that other Star Maidens couldn't do, probably because their dragon lineages are tightly connected.
"Ahem, so what comes next?", asked Aster as he cleared his throat, he brought Alice here as she asked, but he had no idea about what she wanted to show him, which is saying a lot.
Normally, when Alice achieves something, she will tell it to Aster right away to then ask for a "reward" from him, which is one of the interactions Aster enjoys with the girls the most, spoiling them after they put effort on something is the best.
But this time, she actually kept her mouth shut, keeping it for their next date, of course if Aster inspected her with his dragon eyes as well as his soul energy enhanced spirit sense, he would have discovered what changed about Alice compared to when he left, but he never did that without letting the girls know first, the entirety of them belong to him yes, but that doesn't mean he won't give them privacy, they are his precious life partners not objects after all.
That being said, there were some things that he couldn't help but notice whether he wanted it or not, for example the fact that Alice has advanced in the body path, is something he noticed since they had physical contact for the first time when he returned from his mission.
Which she "revealed" the next second, as she showed her middle stage Stellar Constellation realm in the body path to Aster, who of course acted surprised, well, it wasn't just an act, he was indeed surprised but not because of her advance.
Even if normally, advancing in one's secondary path is harder than doing it in the main one, the girls were really highly talented, so their advances come way faster than what other people can even hope.
As a proof of it, the ones who belong to the youngest generation among the members of his family, like Alice, Aria or Tiana are all dual path cultivators whose secondary paths had long ago surpassed the mortal realms, despite their young ages, the only exception is Kana but there is a reason for that.
Even in the Myriad Occupation sect, which has standards that are on par with the ones, that can be found in the top sects of the strongest high ranked Stellar Systems, due to the background from which their founders come from, only a handful of disciples can be mentioned in the same sentence as them, Nerissa and Iris being two of them.
And even then, they are a few years older than those three, not that many but in the youngest generation even one year holds a big meaning, at least for the public opinion, for the really informed or carefree people like Aster, that didn't really matter much.
Advancing faster early doesn't mean a cultivator will shine in the future, many of those "geniuses" get stuck in the Transcending realms to never reach the Heavenly realm, for the most elite forces and families, battle prowess holds more weight than a high realm.
But that's not what surprised Aster, but the fact that now that she was openly showing off her body path cultivation, she gave off a similar feeling… the feeling of someone who cultivates in the soul path.
Now imagine Aster's surprise, when he saw small wisps of soul energy coming out from Alice's body, more specifically from her tail, what's more that soul energy was one he knew the best, as it was his own!
Before Aster could use his dragon eyes to see what was happening, Alice giggled at Aster's surprised expression as she jumped into her beloved brother's arms.
"Nice trick right, Mylene was also surprised, when I showed it to her, she thought it was my Dragon Aura's property, but that's not the case", she said as her right hand covered in a dark mist before she casually grabbed one of the wisps of golden soul energy which was coming out of her tail to then crush it.
"The property of my Dragon Aura is "Soul Crushing", meaning that I can use my physical body as a mean to resist attacks from the soul path, just like how I dispersed the charm technique you used on me back then~", she cutely said as she gazed at Aster, before adding.
"However, that doesn't mean I posses soul energy much less using it to imitate a soul cultivator, that is my lineage ability which comes from "special" scales on my tail", she moved her tail to put it a few millimeters away from Aster's eyes, allowing him to see the moment where the sharp black scales in the middle of her tail separated, to reveal a pretty red scale right in the middle.
The wisps of soul energy, were coming from that scale, also Aster confirmed that it was indeed his soul energy.
"The ability of my tail is to "seal" one attack in that special scale, regardless of the path to which it belongs, which I can release at will later on, apparently, I unconsciously sealed a part of that charm you used on me back then, unfortunately most of it was lost during the process, so I only have the remaining bits of your soul energy to show~", she said.
Aster was in awe at Alice's lineage ability, he expected her Dragon Aura to be related to the soul path, as he saw her using it instinctively when he helped her awaken it, but the ability of her tail was amazing, even if it was temporary, she would be able to use an attack of the soul path!
'According to mom, the most talented members of the Drage family obtain wings either at the peak of the Transcending realm, or once they reach the Heavenly Realm but they all develop the same ability which is using them for energy manipulation which allows them to further enhance their control over their Destruction attribute', thought Aster.
Not only Aster, but the current situation of the three of them is something that has never happened before in the Drage family, they obtained a dragon trait in the infant stage, and not only that, but their dragon traits don't go along with what the Might of the Dragon King manual, which has been used for countless generations by them, states.
The one that was closest to what the manual said was Lilia, since she obtained wings, but that was the only similarity, she has two pairs of wings instead of one, not to mention their shape and properties were different than the ones she has seen the Heavenly Realm members of the Drage, manifest, though she hadn't realized what her lineage ability obtained through her dragon trait is, she is sure it isn't energy manipulation.
How do you ask, she used to be a Heavenly realm cultivator, meaning that she had wings back then, not only that, but she obtained them way before any member of the Drage ever before, she was only a Genesis Manifestation when they appeared, but that is something she has only told to Aster, Alice and her two sworn sisters, in other words, Aster's godmothers.
Also, they disappeared when her cultivation regressed, and the ones she obtained this time, are completely different than the previous ones, not only she feels way more comfortable with them, but that cute black scale on her upper back which acts as the base of her current wings, wasn't there back then either, so it's only natural to think the ability she'll obtain will be different.
Aster returned to reality and fully focused on Alice again, not because his theorizing about his mother and sister's dragon lineage had ended, but because of what she said next.
"And now, let me show you the biggest change~", following her words, Alice's body was covered by the golden armor of the paragon body, but there was a difference, the armor which previously only covered, her legs, arms and lower and upper body, was now… covering her tail in a detailed armor with a trident-like end which decorated the tip of her tail, it looked really threatening yet Aster found it pretty.
"Mom became physically stronger by getting your "love" and it seems like the same applies to me, I only learned how to re-shape the armor when I felt your soul energy dwelling inside that scale~", she said as she kissed Aster who could only inwardly chuckle in response to that.
'This possessive sister of mine', he thought, that didn't prevent him from enjoying Alice's soft lips though.
"Mm~", after Alice kissed Aster to the content of her heart, she actually pushed him away, to then lick her lips as her pressure exploded out of her.
"Also, for some reason I can't contain my desire to fight with you, though what I want after that is the usual~", she cutely said.
Aster bitterly smiled remembering how Lilia who left her instincts take over, created their "love nest" at the mind space by destroying everything until she created a volcanic area, not to mention she expected Aster to do the same before they made love.
Not to mention that when Alice gave in to her instincts, she bit his shoulder in a playful way, and growled at him when he did something she didn't like, like trying to stop their lovemaking.
explain why she is obviously experiencing a period of excitement as Apparently, Alice was experiencing a similar situation, in other words this was some kind of mating ritual for dragons, which would explain why she is obviously experiencing a period of excitement as the bright red light shining in her eyes right now, would suggest.
'Well, she did reach a higher stage in what her dragon bloodline regards, so I guess this is something I should have expected', thought Aster as he saw the eager expression on Alice's face.
She really wanted to fight with Aster for a change, unlike of the normal sparring they usually do during their training sessions, that being said there wasn't even an ounce of animosity coming from her.
Instead of that, Aster could only feel excitement coming from her, which would explain why she asked him to take her to a planet with a strong structure, she was going to go wild.
Aster chuckled, his body was suddenly cladded by the golden armor, which only made Alice's wild smile widen in response, she wasn't using spirit energy, so Aster wasn't either, this was going to be a purely physical confrontation.
"Okay, let's warm up a bit~", she said as her image flashed, the next Aster knew was that Alice's fist was descending from above, to which he smiled as he responded in kind.
"Boooom!!", a thunder-like sound was produced the moment their fists collided, followed by the ground in a one-hundred-meter radio cracking and a large shockwave raising a curtain of dust.
Aster and Alice emerged from the curtain of dust and then clashed on the air once again, this time the impact resulted in a wild current of wind exploding all over the area, the friction caused by their golden armors clashing against each other, actually produced a blaze which was visible even from afar.
Normally, sparks will fly when their armors clashed since they were equally durable, but the high temperature and the abundance of fire spirit energy, made the clash even flashier as waves of fire were produced with each impact.
"Hahaha, more please~", Alice's joyful laugh and some words that could be misinterpreted quite easily could be heard a moment later, when she kicked Aster with her right leg, just for Aster to answer with his own kick.
'I'm starting to understand why everyone knows dragons as violent and lascivious', thought Aster as he kept exchanging punches and kicks with Alice.
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