Wieland was paying special attention to the fight that was about to start, Ward was the only son of the Kraft family’s patriarch and since Wieland was the second strongest cultivator on the Kraft family, he was the object of admiration of practically all the younger generation on his family.
It was to the point were Ward called him “uncle” even if they were not from the same family branch.
Ward took out his own sword, since the kraft family was allied with the Asher family they were the ones with the biggest number of high ranked treasures and of course as the son of the patriarch he had a peak mysterious rank sword.
Ward smiled.
“This sword of mine is called “Vil”, which means “Will”, since you agreed to my terms and my cultivation is higher than yours then let’s make it fair, just one attack… if I can’t destroy that trash sword of yours with one attack then I lose”, he said.
Aster shrugged.
“You should rename it”.
“Huh?”, Ward seemed confused.
“Why should I change the name of my sword?”.
Aster smiled.
“Because it will be a bad omen when that sword breaks in a moment”.
…
“Hahaha”, Ebbe couldn’t hold back his laugh, unlike Ward even if he liked Aria, since she already found a partner the only reason as to why he wanted to fight was to see how far ahead was the “man” chosen by her from him, of course originally, he was sad and a bit angry but then his little brother told him the truth about Aster and his point of view changed.
When someone is way stronger than you then jealousy changes to admiration and that’s how Ebbe was feeling right now, “a kid who is at least 8 years younger than me and yet he is able to hurt a stellar constellation elder, how can I not want to have a spar against such an incredible person”, is what he said to Eric after knowing that Aster was the “golden reaper”.
Ward felt humiliated first a little kid whose face no one has seen before suddenly declared that he was the boyfriend of the girl almost every male from the young generation dreamt with, then the kid even mocked him not only once but twice and now even Ebbe Asher his rival was laughing at him.
He turned to see Ebbe before shouting.
“Shut up you stupid boar”.
Ebbe shrugged.
“I might be stupid but I can accept my defeat as a man, unlike certain dog loser hahaha”.
Ward gritted his teeth; he pointed his sword at Aster.
“Let’s finish this nonsense at once, be careful I’m no longer in a good mood to act friendly”.
Seeing that Ward already took his battle instance, Aster suddenly flashed, the speed of his movement was enough to raise a curtain of dust from the ground, all the spectators could only hear the unique sound of metal colliding against each other.
Wieland waved his hand and all the dust was expulsed from the platform, but no one could have expected the final result of their clash, while the sword in Aster’s hand had a little crack on its blade while the peak mysterious rank sword “Vil” was… cut in half.
Ward’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets; he only came out of his daze when he heard Aster speaking to him.
“The sword is not what makes the swordsman, a true swordsman can use everything as if it was a sword… judging for the idiot expression you have on your face I bet you didn’t even imagine that you had a chance to lose, “a frog at the bottom of a well”, whatever you lost so get your ass out of the platform and never approach Aria again”.
Aster then focused his attention on Ebbe while completely ignoring Ward but when he was about to start his battle with him, he saw from the corner of his eyes that Ward took out a little dagger from a hidden pocket in his pants.
Ward stood and rushed towards Aster who only shook his head, “the rules are that I can’t kill you nor damage your body permanently, but a little suffering will teach you a lesson”, he thought.
He swung his sword and before Wieland could react the sound of something hitting the ground broke the silence.
*Thud*
“Ahhhh!!!”.
Ward’s hand which was holding the dagger separated from his body.
…
The first one to react was Wieland, he disappeared from where he was standing and appeared next to ward and forced him to swallow a pill to calm down the pain, “impossible that kid’s sword doesn’t have an inscription and the blade was too far from Ward so how the hell did he cut his hand!!!”, he though.
Ward might have been proud of his skills with the sword but how could he compare with someone that has obtained sword intention, that’s right what Aster used to easily cut a sword from a better rank with a “trash” sword and how he managed to cut Ward’s hand without physically touching him was because he used his first stage sword intention “ghost sword”, only those who have comprehended an intention could see it so in the spectators eyes it looked like Aster just swung his sword without using any spirit energy and Ward lost his hand just like that.
However, Lilia could clearly see Aster’s sword being covered by another “sword” making its size larger than the real one while also improving its sharpness, the reason as to why Aster’s sword cracked was that a low ranked sword like that could not stand the tension of the ghost sword.
While Wieland was treating Ward’s wound Aster smiled before saying.
“Considering he was not really a threat to me or my family I just gave him a little warning, but perhaps I should have aimed for his neck, senior Wieland probably know this guy better than me so if you consider that he will try to take revenge or something like that, just say it to me right now and I will cut off his head”.
All the spectators were speechless, right in front of the second strongest cultivator of the Kraft family a respectable peak stellar constellation cultivator who had a battle prowess that rivaled an early-stage star axys cultivator… someone just threatened the only son of the Kraft’s family patriarch.
Wieland wanted to defend Ward but now that he was next to him, he noticed the little dagger that was firmly held by his severed hand, which meant the one that should be punished was none other than him.
All the members from the Kraft family stood from their seats only to be scolded by Wieland.
“Sit down you fools!!!”, he sighed before taking Ward’s hand from the ground and showing it to everyone.
“Ward Kraft… broke the conditions he set for their fight and the other participant only defended himself so the ones who are wrong here are us”.
Wieland called the medic team but before they could go up the platform a wall of white-blue flames appeared to stop them.
“I haven’t heard your answer from before, how can you assure me that a guy who tries to stab me just because he is a sore loser is not better dead?”, said Aster in a playful tone.
This time even Wieland was speechless, “this kid is serious, if I can’t give a proper explanation, he is actually going to kill Ward”, he thought.
“Ahem, don’t you think that the “lesson” you just gave him is enough to put an end to this… Drage young master?”, he said.
Aster shook his head.
“No, in fact let me use this as an opportunity to make things clear”, Aster turned to see all the representants before continuing.
“Aria and her father are now part of my family so if anyone of you tries… no if anyone even think of harming them on any way then I will personally teach you all a lesson you will never forget, that being said if you don’t have any hidden schedule then, there is nothing to worry”.
Once he finished his “warning”, he focused his attention on Wieland again, needless to say but Ward already fainted due to the pain and the sedative effect from the healing pill he had swallowed.
Wieland was in a predicament; how could he guarantee that Ward would not try to take revenge? On the other hand, he for a moment thought of forcing his way out of this situation but then he felt a gaze piercing his back and then he realized that such a talented kid like Aster of course had a powerful cultivator protecting him.
“What the hell, since when the Azure sky planet is a gathering point for monsters, I don’t have any doubt that if I show the slightest hostility towards that kid… I will be dead before I do anything”, he thought.
After a moment Wieland sighed.
“I will make sure that Ward won’t leave the main planet of the Kraft family for at least 5 years and if I get to know that he tries anything against you then… I will kill him myself before leaving the Kraft family forever, is that enough for you?”.
…
The representants of the other forces excluding Kail almost forgot how to breath properly due to the shock, that Wieland Kraft, the man that has even used his own body to protect the patriarch of the Kraft family from other star axys cultivators just said that he will personally kill the young master of the Kraft family in case he can’t keep his promise!!!
“What in the world is happening”, everyone screamed on their heads.