Eric saw Aster’s interest in the space ship and he smiled, he had the same reaction the first time he saw one, “space ships are the romance of a man hahaha”.
Although Aster was surprised by the skull ritz it was not to the same point as Eric, but more a curiosity, after all on his previous life airplanes existed and humas already explored the space near earth, what caught his attention was that the space ship didn’t have turbines nor propellers unlike on his past life, so he had no clue about how it was floating in the air like that.
Lilia smiled.
“Space ships use a complex series of spirit formations and a lot of spirit stones to fly, that’s why only people with a reasonable quantity of resources can buy one, specially in this star cluster where there aren’t high ranked rune masters nor spirit blacksmiths”.
While Aster was processing his mother’s explanation an unknown voice interrupted.
“That lady is right, this Beast Skull is one of the few space ships owned by the Barbarian heart sect, since the disciple of our patriarch is participating on his first secret realm exploration of course we had to give him a fun travel”.
Aster turned to see the man who spoke a moment ago and saw middle aged man with white hair and a mustache, wearing a leather full body armor with a bug sword on his back, coming out of the restaurant.
Eric took the initiative to present the man.
“Brother, that is uncle Ritz one of the vice leaders of the Barbarian heart sect and the captain of Ritz skull”.
Ritz almost tripped when he heard Eric presenting him.
“Oi brat, what “Ritz skull”, my space ship is called “Beast skull” how many times do I have to tell you”, he shook his head before looking at Aster while pointing at Eric, “forget it, it’s a pleasure to meet you all, my name is Ritz Karze and I’m basically the babysitter of the troublesome disciple of the patriarch”.
Aster could understand Ritz reaction, during the past three years he got more into contact with Eric and he was never quiet nor he reserved any of his opinions about anything… in other words he was a headache for the one that supervised him, in the Asher family it was his uncle Egil but the victim on the barbarian heart sect turned to be Ritz.
Eric laughed.
“Come on uncle Ritz you have been having more fun since you met me, right?”.
Ritz felt a vein popping on his neck, “more like having my blood pressure going up since I met you”, he thought.
Now that everyone was here it was time to leave the azure sky planet, Zartia was not too far from here so in about two hours they would be arriving, Ritz created a platform with his spirit energy and made everyone float until they were at the entrance of the space ship.
The door opened to allow them going inside, once they were in the space ship, Aster recognized a par of people among the staff as members of the Asher family, the inside of the space ship was divided into the living area which consisted in the left side where the rooms for the staff were and the right side for the guests, besides that there was a common area where everyone could pass the time, the basement which functioned as a storage and finally the control cabin where the captain and the navigators supervised the travel.
Ritz guided them to the common area before handing Aster a key, according to his petition in case they wanted to rest they were assigned a big room where the four of them could stay together, besides Aster’s group and Eric there were another two guys sitting on a couch in the common area.
Ritz placed his hand on Eric’s shoulder before saying.
“I need to return to the control cabin, present them to your older brothers and just guide them to their room after that”, Ritz left after giving his instructions and Eric pointed at the two guys who were sitting on the couch.
“The one on the left is Brig he is the “brain” of my team and the guy on the right is Cade my “scout”, both of them are my followers chosen personally by me, you two come to present yourselves to my brother Aster”.
Brig was fat guy of about 18 years old with red hair while Cade was skinny and seemed to be older since he had signs of a mustache the same color as his blonde hair, when Eric called them, they immediately stood up and walked until they were next to him.
“We are big brother’s companions it’s a pleasure”, they both said.
Aster was amused by how they behaved, although Eric looked older it was clear that those two were actually the older ones here.
He nodded in recognition and Eric dismissed them.
“What do you think brother Aster, they might not look too amazing but those two are on the peak of the star formation realm so they are perfect for this exploration”.
Now that those two and Ritz left, Aster and the girls sat on a couch while Eric took a seat in front of them, Eric doubted for a second before saying.
“Normally a peak mortal transcending cultivator like uncle Ritz would have not come all the way here but the barbarian heart sect creator was a native of our Rodia star cluster and my family are the descendants he left behind here, that is why the Asher family has connections with them, even if they are the hegemons of their star cluster”.
“On the other hand, the Rein family somehow invited people from another force which is stronger than the barbarian heart sect… they call themselves sand mountain sect and according to Brig’s information they have been invaded other low ranking star clusters since a long time to steal resources and enslave their natives.
“That’s why uncle Ritz is here, unlike my sect where only the patriarch has reached the sea of knowledge realm… they have two, but even then, since our star cluster is considered an isolated arid place, they only sent a mortal transcending realm cultivator to explore, I don’t know how the Rein family convinced them to assist as their “guests” but they are clearly aiming for whatever is inside of the secret realm”.
Aster smiled, unlike Eric he got some privileged information directly from Kail, since the Kray’s incident the Rein patriarch has starting paying more attention to Kail until he finally earned a place into the core of the Rein family which of course was only to get more information for his boss.
According to Kail, the Rein and Wolfstein families made a soul oath to work together, the Reins had a way to contact an elder from the sand mountain sect and Isaac has been keeping an unknown spirit herb of the stellar rank as the last thing inherited by his ancestors so they basically bribed the elder of the sand mountain sect to bring his disciple to act as guest and explore the secret realm with Kray, Kail, Kayla and… Valentine.
p That’s right his “half-brother” was now in the early stage of the star formation realm and Isaac was planning to made him stablish a connection with the disciple of the sand mountain sect, there were more things on their plan for sure but no matter how much Kail contributed to the family his father didn’t mention anything else.
Eric suddenly felt his muscles tensing when he saw Aster smiling.
“Brother Aster you… are radiating that terrifying aura again, just like that day in front of the auction house”.
Aster shook his head.
“Don’t worry, I just thought that enemies are truly bound to meet continuously, on any case it will be fine both Alice and me are enough to deal with this “guest from another star cluster”.
Eric felt the Space ship finally moving and an alarm echoing through the whole common area.
“I knew teaming up with you will be more interesting than bringing those other idiots from my sect, we are about to start the travel, let me guide you to your room while we leave the planet, for security reasons only once we are on the outer space you will be able to freely move on the public area.
The star formation realm was the minimum required to travel through the space but the shock of leaving the atmosphere of the planet might still be a problem for those below the star axys realm.
Aster nodded, they all stood up and Eric took them to their assigned room, there were no other guests besides them so the whole right side of the living Area was only occupied by them, he inserted the key and the door opened, once they entered and closed it, Eric left to his own room.
The rooms were designed so the people inside will not feel the space ship moving, anyway Lilia waved her hand and a barrier surrounded the room just in case, Aster took his coat and boots off before laying down on the bed, of course Lilia, Alice and Aria followed him after a moment.
Aster caressed Aria’s face before saying.
“Both Kray and Kayla will pay for how they treated you”.
Aria sighed.
“Unfortunately, I won’t be able to participate”, she answered.
Alice smiled.
“Don’t worry I will go in your representation, after all that bitch also tried to harm me”.
Aster nodded.
“No matter who that guy from the sand mountain sect is, just Alice alone will be enough to destroy him and adding me to the mix there won’t be any problems”.
“Mm?”, he suddenly had a weird feeling close to his star nucleus which made him happy, “those two seem to finally be close to finishing their evolution”, he thought.