Chapter 587 Cute girl & Cute snake (part 1)
After letting Agnes "cool down" a bit, Aster happily flew out of the Treasure Graveyard, on his way he looked at the different batches of swords that earlier tried to suppress his intent and actually felt bad for William.
Galatia was on the top three of the middle grade Stellar Systems and even then, if it wasn't for the support of Myriad Occupation sect, the Treasure Graveyard couldn't be this vast, many families kept the weapons of their talented members for the good fortune and prosperity of the future generations.
Most of the times the treasures used by said talented cultivators end up being destroyed to save their owner's life, win a difficult fight or escape a tough situation, so what they end up leaving to their family as a memento is not a treasure that has spent a long time with them, but more of a trophy they got after reaching a high realm.
In other words, weapons that followed their owners for long enough to have their intent engraved into them, are not easy to come by, now add to that the fact that the ones that are useful are those whose owners at least reached the peak of the Transcending realms, and the results diminish once again.
The previous only accentuates the prestige of the Myriad Occupation sect, since each and every of the treasures here once belonged to cultivators that at least reached the peak of the Transcending realms, meaning they also developed third level intent at some point of their lives.
You might think that how rare can they be if all the mountains here have tons of them buried, well, judging by the different blacksmithing styles Aster could see, the different kinds of intents and overall aura of them, all these spirit treasures came from at least two of the four Heavenly Quadrants.
So, when you weight the number of cultivators that rise at the four Heavenly Quadrants, each generation, the amount gathered here becomes quite "insignificant", and yet, according to Agnes out of the top four or five sects that have the power to fight for the right to join the high grade Stellar System ranks, the Treasure Graveyard of the Myriad Occupation sect, is at least five times larger and more varied.
'I guess that rune master godmother of mine must have had something to do with it, after all, a decorative heirloom being changed for a modern useful treasure of defensive array, is definitely an "ancestor's blessing", for the vast majority', he thought.
Aster soon reached the exit, he passed through the portal and met Agnes who immediately looked away to avoid making eye contact with Aster, who playfully smiled in response.
"And here I was about to show my date the gift I had in store for her, but it seems like left, oh well, I guess I'll have to throw it away", he jokingly said as he took out a large jade case, which made Agnes's reach, but didn't grab her had directly.
Agnes pouted, she looked at Aster's playful expression and she Agnes's eyes sparkle.
She turned around while still sitting on the ground but before she stood up, she stopped to think for a second before she actually extended her pretty hand towards Aster asking for his help to get up.
"You said I could get as much as I wanted…", she mumbled with a blushed face.
Aster laughed, still he extended his arm to place his hand within Agnes's reach, but didn't grab her had directly.
Agnes pouted, she looked at Aster's playful expression and she knew he was teasing her, on the other hand she for some reason was enjoying it too.
Ultimately, she held onto Aster's hand, who immediately helped get up in exchange, of course Aster wasn't just teasing her, though he did enjoy seeing her ashamed expression, he also wanted Agnes to be a bit more open on what she felt/wanted, since she was in the process of realizing the difference between curiosity and love.
Earlier she herself got on top of Aster, in a pretty suggestive position, but then got startled by such a light thing as a kiss on the cheeks, which was rather cute from Aster's point of view, but that also showed that she wasn't ready for the real deal.
In that aspect Camila was ahead of Agnes, since despite she being enslaved to clean up the mess of the Wolfstein, she did learn more in what relationships regards, in the sense that she was hit on by the idiot of Isaac quite a few times, as he expected her to become one of his wives in order to produce a stronger offspring.
"Don't look at me like that, here, it seems like diamond is indeed closely related to you", said Aster as he opened the large jade case.
Agnes couldn't help but sweetly smile after seeing what was inside the jade case, it was still in its early stages, but what lied inside the case was a sword which's main material she could easily recognize, since she was there when it was harvested.
"Even before the battle with the centipede I had already thought that your sword wasn't capable of enduring the heat of your attacks, so when the extensions of the Diamond Bone Orchid easily wielded that ray of heat against me, I had already decided who had priority over them", said Aster, which made Agnes giggle.
"I was going to ask you to make me a sword, but it's better like this~", she said.
Her previous sword was destroyed when she killed the centipede, she actually replaced it not too long after, since she of course had a spare sword, but she wasn't really comfortable with it, she was amazed that Aster noticed it, since the two looked quite alike, but the one she was using now was the prototype of the one that broke.
"Now that you mention it…", said Aster as he sneakily moved his hand to then poke Agnes's forehead.
"Uh?", of course that didn't hurt her, but she was surprised as to why Aster did it, at least until she heard him saying.
"Never hesitate to ask me about something you need, even if I'm still an amateur, I'm a spirit blacksmith, how can I not notice someone who isn't comfortable with their weapon, especially when we are talking about a sword, just say the word, I'll make as many as you need, okay?".
Aster has forged and destroyed countless of swords at this point, it took him quite a lot of tries to find the models for the training swords with which he was comfortable, he went through many prototypes, so he could easily tell that Agnes was in a similar spot, not to mention she was really bad at lying at least in front of Aster.
"I can't say about the runes, but I promise it will be way more durable than your previous sword, I'll have it finished before we leave to our next mission, I can't have my exclusive "witness" in danger due to a defective sword after all", he said.
"Mm~", Agnes sweetly smiled in response as she felt a tingly sensation flooding her chest.
Aster returned the case to his spatial ring before using his authority to open a portal back to the mansion, they were dragged into it and disappeared, leaving behind a mess that will come bite William in the ass, since Aster practically left a bunch of swords an inch away from breaking when they should have endured a few more years of being active, but that's beside the point.
The travel back through the dimensional tunnel was quite relaxed, something worth mentioning is that Agnes didn't let go of Aster's hand, even now that they had appeared in the middle of the living room.
The girls saw Aster returning and they greeted him, some quickly noticed the slight change on the atmosphere around those two, only after a couple of seconds, Agnes let go of Aster's hand and then she left to her room.
Needless to say, but many sharp gazes fell on Aster who cleared his throat a couple of times, luckily as if the heavens were helping him a little angel came to his rescue, since Kana and Espi felt Aster's presence back in the valley and rushed from who knows where in the forest, to the castle right in time.
"Big brother, I won this time~", happily said the little girl as she "Hiiisss!".
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jumped to cheerfully hug Aster, just to hear the little snake hiss at her a couple of times.
"Hiiisss!".
"Ah, sorry, we won this time's sort, so tomorrow is our turn", said Kana with an apologetic expression towards Espi.
Aster patted Kana's head a couple of times, while he extended his left arm at the little snake, Espi jumped from the top of Kana's head and then slid through Aster's arm to cutely coil around his shoulder.
"Sounds like tomorrow will be a fun day", said Aster, which made Kana giggle.
"Mm, I have been talking with Espi to decide where do we want to go first or what we want to do first, we ultimately decided to ask big brother to treat us to a big nice breakfast before anything else~", she said.
Aster laughed at the pair of little glutton girl and snake, but it was normal, Espi is a spirit beast and Kana has a spirit beast's lineage, so having a big appetite is a sign that they are growing healthy, Myra said that those two are more or less in the same stage of maturity, meaning that they are barely reaching the infant stage.
Despite both having obtained their lineage abilities, unlike Sarina, Lilia or Alice, they aren't proficient enough to be considered infant stage, the same applies to Aster actually, even Andwith his dragon eyes he hadn't reached the infant stage either, so the three were in the same boat in that aspect.
Which isn't a bad thing, out of what Myra has shared with Aster and the pages for amateur spirit tamers, which Aster has read from the book that the Luan girls gifted him, the best way to raise a contracted spirit beast is growing alongside it.
Though Aster didn't visibly budge when he used two intents at the same time, the damage to his body was quite something, otherwise Agnes wouldn't have been so worried about him, he used quite a bit of physical energy to convert yang into vitality to accelerate his recovery.
And while the others didn't know it, Lilia did, so she hugged Aster from behind while he was still patting Kana's head, to then say.
"How about we prepare a nice dinner for your big brother together?", she said with a cunning smile on her face.
"Yes~".
"Hisss!".
Even the little snake who was resting coiled around Aster's shoulder, peeked out of Aster's shirt to express its support to the idea, before it slid down Aster's arm to jump onto Kana's head.
Seeing Kana merrily going to the kitchen, Sarina smiled at Aster.
"I'll go help her, have a bath in the meantime", said the motherly woman, naturally the moment Sarina saw Lilia's eyes sparkle, she put on a smile which wasn't a smile before adding.
"Where do you think you are going, it was your idea to begin with".
"Humph, you are no fun, haven't you heard that sometimes having the dessert before, it's for the better", mumbled Lilia as she was dragged away by Sarina.
Aster softly laughed, the girls always knew when he needed some relax even if he didn't say anything, it's not a matter of being tired or not, but more like the times when instead of going at it, they prefer to cuddle together.
Even that wild sister of his, against every cell in her body didn't try to sneak into the bathroom, for Aster to just have a refreshing quick shower and meet them at the dining room half an hour later.
Surprisingly, or not really, Agnes didn't accompany them tonight, it was understandable, specially by a certain someone who was suddenly reminded of kissing Aster at their previous date, not only because of Agnes staying in her room, but because the others couldn't help but tease her with it too.
"Heh, what happened Camila, are you feeling feverish?", playfully said Alice who was sitting on Aster's lap, very much to Kana's surprise who was just arriving with a large steak which she personally prepared for Aster.
"Cough!", Camila nearly choked with the food she was munching, her face was bright red but she didn't say anything, which only made the other girls giggle at her.
Kana walked all the way next to Aster and placed the plate in front of him, before looking at him with puppy eyes.
"Big brother, sister Alice is occupying my seat", she cutely said.
Aster chuckled, he moved Alice onto his left leg and then helped Kana sit on his right leg, it's obvious by the way those two were staring at each other, that they were just competing for Aster's straight to the bed after having dinner, the girls followed not too long after and found him already sleeping so they stared at each attention, but that's not bad it meant they found something in which they both had interest.
Besides Alice teasing Camila, Lilia and Sarina personally feeding Aster with Kana occasionally doing it too, the dinner was pretty much the usual cheerful moment which always reminded Aster how lucky he was.
The rest of the night was pretty much uneventful, Aster went straight to the bed after having dinner, the girls followed not too long after and found him already sleeping so they stared at each other before taking their respective places for the night.
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As a proof of the stress that wielding two intents put in Aster's body, he didn't even enter the mind space but fell asleep, of course with all those beauties soft bodies comforting him, it would be hard for him to not have a really nice night of sleep.
After a few hours the moon was replaced by the sun in the sky and Aster's eyelids slightly trembled, he felt a small ticklish sensation on his face and was welcomed by the sight of Espi cutely licking his cheek with its little tongue.
"Hisss~", Aster softly laughed, he could see hear Kana's heartbeat accelerate a bit, she told Espi to wake Aster, since it was already morning and the two were eager for their date to start.
Of course, Aster found it rather cute, so he just petted the little snake a couple of times, making it happily hiss before it slid to coil around his neck.
As always, it was hard for Aster to move before he helped waking all the sleeping beauties, so he started by releasing his arms which were tightly hugged by Alice and Aria, despite Alice not wanting to move, after she had her morning kiss, Kana "secretly" pushed her aside.
Next Aster had the pair of blonde mother and daughter, resting on top of him, since Lilia still couldn't win in the food war against Sarina, so she was acting as Aster's pillow, not that she didn't enjoy it, since Aster was basically laying on top of her, but not in the position she wanted.
Naturally Sarina didn't get in the way of her daughter's date, so after a soft kiss, she smiled and then got up the bed.
"Have a fun day you three", she said as she left the room.
With his arms free, Aster caressed Kana's head a couple of times, which made her giggle, she was terrible at feigning to be asleep.
"Good morning~", she cutely said as she rubbed her eyes a couple of times, she woke up quite early because she couldn't contain her excitement, Kana then lightly pecked Aster's cheek before she jumped out of the bed.
"Let's go prepare to leave, Espi!", exclaimed the little girl as she rushed out of the room, as always Kana was full of energy.
"Hiss", the little snake slid through Aster's arm and out of the bed to follow Kana, leaving Aster alone with Lilia and the others.
Aster turned around and he was immediately dragged into Lilia's embrace, with his head buried between those big breasts of hers.
"Are you also feeling jealous like sis?", jokingly said Aster, which
made Lilia pout.
"Of course, how come I can't win the damn sort, it must be staged", she mumbled.
Aster softly laughed and then squeezed out of Lilia's cleavage to kiss her pretty lips a couple of times.
"You have me almost for yourself in the mind space, so be good", he said.
"Humph, I can't go as wild as I want since the sword girl is watching all the time", she added, but she still let go of Aster, with a feigned grumpy expression on her pretty face, before her eyes shone with a predacious light.
"On the other hand, when my date comes, I will enjoy it quite a bit~", she cutely said.
Aster chuckled, he kissed Lilia one last time before he changed into his usual clothes, to then stretch his body before leaving the room.
The little girl and the little snake were already waiting for Aster at the other side of the door with expecting eyes.
Aster softly laughed, he walked towards the living room and saw Eris and Mylene smiling at him.
"Have fun with Kana "big brother" Aster", jokingly said Mylene making Eris giggle.
"Well, I don't mind calling you two sisters, but you know what happened to Alice so…", Aster of coruse got back at those two, whose faces reddened a bit on the spot.
Kana laughed and then hugged Aster who took it as a sign to go, with a wave of his hand they both disappeared from the room, leaving behind an Eris who stared at Mylene before saying.
"He got us", she mumbled.
"Mm", Mylene limited to nod back at her friend, before the two of them laughed at the same time, just to see Camila's head peeking out of her room.
"Speaking of which, don't we have a pending conversation with a certain someone?", said Mylene with a suggestive voice as she gazed at Camila who instantly regretted not staying on her bed until much later.
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