The royal guard captain and Sarina floated a few meters away from Robert and the woman which the old man called Lyre, silence remained for a couple of seconds, Robert carefully inspected the direction from where they appeared and he didn’t see nor detected what he was looking for which made him grin.
“Judging by your angry expression and the fact that I can’t feel the presence of that pair of siblings and Kana, I guess the operation in Oak Heart city was a success”.
Sarina clenched her fists.
“So, it was your doing after all… out of all the despicable things you could have done, I can’t believe you chose to offer your own daughter to those pieces of trash, before we start you better give me an explanation”, she said while pointing at the woman with the pipe.
Lyre smiled while she pressed her body against Robert.
“So, you are the frigid and now abandoned wife huh, weren’t you supposed to be bedridden and agonizing at this point, I wonder how you suddenly returned to be an early star vertex cultivator within a day, perhaps after seeing your pretty daughter being taken away by my servants you finally lost it and used a self-destructive medicine to momentarily recover your cultivation?”.
Robert was completely convinced of her theory.
“That’s probably the case if not she would have been at least at the middle stage star vertex realm, what a shame she has always been so emotional when it comes to Kana, luckily that maid infiltrated such a long time ago… to think that some random kid would be able to remove the corruption we worked so hard to infect you with, he deserved to die hahaha”.
Lyre nodded.
“Yes, it was quite hard for us to guide that peak disaster corrupted to Oak Heart city when that old bastard wasn’t there to protect it, so since that kid wanted to meddle in other people’s business, I ordered Lynn to kill him and according to the last report she sent me both the guard that wasn’t controlled and that kid were dead with the same beautiful method, a poison knife stabbed in the heart, poetic right?”.
Sarina gritted her teeth.
“Kana thought of you as her father, if you had the slightest consciousness as a human being, tell me where is my daughter!!!”.
…
Robert laughed before wrapping his arm around Lyre’s waist.
“So what? a little girl is nothing compared to the whole Luonto continent, once I get rid of Orson, I will become the king and the history will be written by me, you call me traitor but I think the word “revolutionary” fits me better… and unlike a useless cold woman like you, I have now found a queen that is worthy of me, so I can have as many children as I want later”.
Before anyone could react, a golden flash passed flying next to Robert, and the next thing they saw were that his left arm was… gone.
“Gahhhh”, a scream echoed through the sky above the capital, Robert let go of Lyre and covered his wound with his other hand, his veins became visible all over his neck.
“What the fuck, this hurts like hell!!!”.
Lyre immediately distanced a couple of meters from Robert before handing him some pills and elixirs, but even when he stuffed his mouth with all of them, the pain didn’t disappear, not only that but the wound didn’t stop bleeding, an indifferent voice suddenly caught everyone’s attention.
“Come on, don’t tell me such a little amount of pain it’s enough to make you cry, “Mr. revolutionary”, this isn’t nearly enough to pay for what you have done”.
Robert’s eyes widened, he turned his face around and saw it, a young man with black hair and bright golden eyes… slowly walking in the air as if he was taking a walk in the park, in his right hand he was wielding a sword with a couple of fractures on its blade.
Sarina had a surprised smile in her face, her previous “distressed” expression was nowhere to be seen.
“I thought the plan was for you to act after our battle started”, she said.
Aster’s image flashed before he appeared next to her.
“Sorry, after listening to all their nonsense I couldn’t hold myself back anymore”, Aster’s voice was calm and firm but, one could clearly see the unmeasurable amount of… anger reflected in his eyes.
A few minutes ago.
After Sylas followed the old man in the robe to continue their fight above the clouds, Aster saw the captain of the royal guards suddenly shooting a flame arrow from his hands and he immediately activated the barrier talisman to cover Alice, Kana and him.
Sarina who already knew the function of the barrier, ignored them and flew with the captain to encounter with Robert and the black-haired woman.
Everything went according to the plan, according to what Aster and Sarina discussed earlier, they wanted to know why Robert did all this, to be honest Aster didn’t really care, in his mind Robert was a goner anyway but Kana deserved to know the truth.
How did a black barrier wasn’t noticed by Robert when he carefully looked for any signs of Kana or them with his spirit sense? the invisibility talisman is the answer, although it’s normally used to camouflage a person, it can be attached to other things.
While they were inside the barrier, Aster carefully looked at Kana’s expression, at first, she looked calmed but as Robert continued speaking, she couldn’t avoid little tears forming in her eyes, her face paled a bit and her legs trembled as if they were about to give in.
Alice hurriedly tried to help her calm down, she stood behind Kana to keep her still, but contrary to what they expected she shook her head a couple of times, clenched her little hands and listened all the way to the end before she fainted.
Deep in her heart she still hoped that her father was being forced to cooperate with the people of the Riga continent, so when she heard all the horrible things Robert said, her mind went into chaos, and her little heart felt pain.
But even then, she refused to miss even a single word of the conversation that was taking place up in the sky, only when Robert finished speaking, she allowed her self-preservation instincts to take over, blacking out to recover from the emotional shock.
Both Alice and Aster were impressed by her resolution, especially Alice, if before she was only participating in all this because they also targeted them, now she was genuinely angry.
“Making such a good girl cry… they deserve to die”, she said, while sitting down cross legged and gently placing Kana’s head in her lap.
…
Alice turned to see her brother since she didn’t hear him saying anything, only to see him taking out a sword from his spatial ring, he slightly leaned down to pat Kana’s head a couple of times before he abruptly directed a sharp gaze at Robert.
Alice smiled.
“Go, I will stay with her until she wakes up”.
Aster nodded, he left the space protected by the barrier and immediately swung his sword to shoot out a golden line made out of annihilation, which led them to the current situation where Robert looked as if he has seen a ghost.
Lyre had an ugly expression in her face.
“Who the hell are you!!!”.
Aster smiled.
“You seemed to be quite happy ordering that bitch to kill me, but it seems your little “toyboy”, didn’t bother to tell you how I look”.
Lyre’s eyes narrowed, if the young man in front of her was the same that was helping Sarina remove corruption from her body… that meant Lynn failed her mission, not only that but her heart binding worm didn’t have the chance to escape.
She turned to see Robert and yelled at him.
“Is this the kid you mentioned? how come he is flying when you told me he was at the best a core array realm cultivator!!!”.
Lyre was angry, that previous attack which cut Robert’s left arm was something terrifying, she was paying attention to her surroundings and yet she didn’t notice it until it was too late, “if that thing was directed at my head would I have been able to avoid it?”, she thought.
Robert gritted his teeth.
“How should I know… maybe he was using a spirit treasure to hide his true cultivation”.
Robert then looked at the sword in Aster’s hand and noticed the little cracks on the blade.
“This doesn’t change anything, he isn’t a star vertex cultivator so that attack was probably something he was able to do due to that sword… it’s probably a treasure with a limited number of uses, so as long as we avoid it a couple of times, we will be fine”.
Suddenly flames raised on different spots of the city, the other spies from Riga finally started acting seeing their leaders fighting in the sky.
Aster turned to see Karl before saying.
“Originally I was only going to act if my help was needed but I changed my mind, captain of the royal guard you go and control the situation in the city”.
He pointed his sword which started glowing in dazzling golden light at Robert.
“This idiot has a score to settle with me and Kana… that’s why I won’t be satisfied unless I see him suffer and regret being born”.
At first Karl wanted to argue, but his complains stuck in his throat when he felt the incredible amount of killing intent coming from the young man that seemed to be calm and relaxed a few seconds ago.
Seeing that Sarina did not object about it, Karl simply nodded and flew away, in any case his main task was to lead his subordinates and keep the capital and the king safe.
Speaking of Sarina she had a bright smile on her face, something that Robert has only seen her doing when she spent time with Kana.
Aster saw Robert’s ugly expression and he put on a grin, he wrapped his free arm around Sarina’s waist and while looking at Lyre he spoke with a disdaining voice.
“I will also add “bad taste”, to the list of your sins”.
Sarina laughed, unlike the only time she allowed Robert to touch her, she didn’t feel disgusted by Aster’s touch, in fact it gave her a reassuring comfortable feeling.
“I agree, I will take on the slut from the Riga continent, are you sure you can deal with him?”.
Without doubting for a second, he answered.
“Count with it… you were right, Kana is a strong girl”.
Sarina nodded.
“Of course, she is my daughter after all ♥”.