Looking at the current situation Aster frowned his eyebrows, unlike the corrupted he met before which at least had a somewhat humanoid form, the ones that were fighting against the guards of the city had corpulent animal forms, and no matter how much the guards attacked they kept fighting until they died.
Suddenly all the points connected, Aster realized that probably the three players of this war were starting to make their movements,
“These ones are just mindless beasts… I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they suddenly appeared here, first the cosmos tree, then I felt someone watching me from afar and then these guys appeared, Sarina please contact the old man, let’s see if this is happening in other cities”.
Sarina nodded, she took her communication talisman and a moment later she got an answer from Sylas, the capital city was completely fine, so now it was quite obvious the corrupted were aiming at them.
As if it was planned beforehand, a part of the corrupted beasts separated from the rest and started running towards Aster and the girls, with a gesture of his hand Aster made Rigel’s flame surround the creatures burning them alive in the process.
A sound between a guttural growl and a screech echoed through the whole battlefield, the walls of the city shook as if something was trying to break them from the outside, Aster saw two humanoid figures running away from a huge amount of the corrupted beasts.
Eric and Sofia who were covered in blood stood a couple of meters away from Aster, although they had a lot of blood staining their clothes, they didn’t have any visible wounds, so the blood wasn’t their own.
“Brother, thank to the heavens you are fine, I was training when suddenly some bastards went crazy and started attacking others, then the east gate was destroyed and a lot of this things entered the city”.
Sofia looked as if she wanted to kill someone, the ones dying were the people of her native city, the guards who have been watching over her since she was a child.
Aster tried to look for the one that was commanding the beasts but he didn’t find anyone that looked powerful enough to control them.
“Did you saw who destroyed the gate, they are attacking us with numbers, the easiest way to put an end to the battle is dealing with the one that is leading them”.
Sofia nodded.
“I managed to see that thing, unlike these beasts that one walked on two legs and it was fully covered in black smoke, my father is fighting against it right know near the north gate”.
As they spoke the ground trembled, a figure fell from the sky and landed on top of a house destroying the whole area around it, without waiting for anyone Sofia rushed towards that are because she could barely guess who was it, of course Eric immediately followed her.
A man with a large wound on his chest rose from all the debris but as he tried to get up his legs gave in.
“Father!!!”, Sofia approached the man and helped him move, Eric did the same but they didn’t notice the black thing that was flying at them.
*Clang*
The sound of metal colliding and a gust of wind which was created due to the sudden clash drew everyone’s attention, Aster was floating in the air, his sword was pressed against the claws of the monster that attacked Sofia’s father, the clash didn’t last too much time since Aster easily overpowered the creature cutting it down in the process.
The creature howled and fell to the ground while Aster calmly descended from the sky, the girls approached him and now they took the time to inspect the creature that was now laying on the ground.
It was somewhat similar to a bear but its body was more humanoid, it had a big musculature and sharp claws on both hands and feet, its eyes were completely blank, its snout was elongated and had long sharp teeth and its body was covered in black hair from which dark smoke was being leaked from time to time.
Aster used Rigel’s flame to kill the beast, there was nothing to consider, this thing was created for war purposes only, and its battle prowess was quite high since Sofia’s father is an early-stage star tribulation realm cultivator.
After the creature died, the other beasts went crazy they started attacking not only the guards but even each other.
Eric let out a sigh of relief.
“You were right brother, that big guy was the one giving the orders… now we just need to do the cleaning”.
Unfortunately, things weren’t so simple this time, the other three gates rumbled and a moment later they fell apart, from the other side of the wall… three more creatures like the on that Aster killed appeared, and that was not all, each one was leading at least three thousand corrupted beasts.
…
Aster sighed.
“Yep, you jinxed it, Sarina that creature’s strength is almost the same as the monstrous form Robert had, near the middle stage of the star tribulation realm, I could deal with them but I don’t think they will stand together and let me kill them, so you take care of one, I deal with one and Alice… kill or delay the last one”.
He didn’t include Sofia or Eric not because they were weak, but because they had to cure and protect the city lord, as for Kana this fight was out of her league but Aster had another plan for her.
“Eric, Sofia you cure the city lord and help the guards deal with the beasts, but leave some for me please”.
“Kana… you stay in the barrier while we deal with the leaders, and after they are gone, I will accompany you to fight against the corrupted beasts, of course only if your mother agrees to it”.
Kana’s hopeful gaze made Sarina had no option but to accept, she hasn’t had time to train her daughter so this was a good occasion for that.
Now that everyone had its opponents it was show time, Sarina helped Alice fly towards the gate she was in charge of, while Aster used lightning trail to soar through the sky, the creature he chose looked different than the other two, its arms were longer than and it was letting out a bigger quantity of black smoke.
As he rushed towards the creature, Rya spoke to him.
“Be careful, the one that was observing you earlier is near… although it’s killing the beasts that are flooding from the forest, it might be a trap”.
Aster nodded, he was wondering why the minions were so little, he was expecting to see a couple of dozens of thousands, but instead there was roughly eight or nine thousand of them, turns out there was another someone “helping” from the shadows.
“There is no time to play around”, he thought as a golden armor appeared on his arms and chest, just in case he decided to use the paragon body from the beginning.
The creature with longer arms noticed Aster coming at it, and after roaring at him it jumped, apparently it didn’t have the ability to fly but it could jump pretty high due to its physical strength.
Aster smiled, the creature appeared in front of him with its fist pointing at his chest, time seemed to slow down, the world went silent for a second and then the whole sky over the city was engulfed in black smoke, but it didn’t last before everything disappeared in a dazzling golden light, not only the black smoke but all the beasts that were outside of the south gate were vaporized.
*Roarrr*
A deafening roar made everyone pay attention to what was happening in the sky above the south gate, the guards saw the friend that came to visit the son in law of their city lord, a black-haired young man wearing a partial golden armor floating still as a mountain as he grabbed one of the leaders of the creatures… or more accurately what was left behind.
Unlike a couple of seconds ago, the creature was now missing the whole right side of its body, it’s not like Aster couldn’t have fully destroyed its body, but when he was about to do it he noticed something which was worth investigating, he kept the corpse of the creature and then turned around just to see the guards acclaim.
“The golden knight is fighting at our side, everyone charge!!!!”.
Even the city lord who was still recovering couldn’t help but feel his blood boiling, he looked at Eric and yelled.
“Oi brat why didn’t you tell me that the brother you spoke so much about, was the golden knight? If I would have known it… I would have made you marry my daughter the first day she asked me to do it, hahaha”.
Eric was as surprised as others.
“The last time I saw it, it wasn’t an armor but perse but a giant armored arms which melted everything on their path”, he thought.
Sarina sighed, she was keeping one of the creatures imprisoned in a twister, so she witnessed how Aster easily dealt with his opponent.
“He hasn’t even reached the stellar constellation and yet, he is this strong… as expected of the man I fell in love with”.
Alice wasn’t paying attention to her brother’s fight, out of the three she was the only one that couldn’t fly so it she was using a continuous series of attacks to keep the creature down.
“Okay, I wanted to do some naughty things tonight… but I changed my mind, it’s frustrating not being able to fly, so I will breakthrough today”, she thought.
After she gave her first time to her brother, she immediately felt her advance coming but she suppressed it because she wanted to do more things before Lilia arrived at Prasil, but no she realized it was better to complete her advance and then have lots of sex with him, to celebrate.
From the inside of a barrier Kana was looking at the whole battle and her young heart had a mix of emotions right now, before she was excited to see Aster using his golden armor to fight, but now that instead of admiration her heart was filled with love… she instead felt worried when she saw him clashing with the creature.
“Big brother… please be careful”, she said while she looked at the sky.