Now that the two women were half dead, all the remaining forces of Riga fell into chaos, the captains of the flagships saw when Lilia disappeared with Augustus, so the fact that she returned alone meant that their king was defeated.
Apparently not everyone was so loyal to Augustus because some of the spaceships immediately tried to flee, unfortunately Sylas foresaw something like that happening since he saw Aster easily killing Nolan, so Ritz’s spaceship blocked their retreat path.
Eris didn’t pay attention at the beginning, but now she noticed that Lilia was clinging to Aster a bit too much, which made her remember what she saw the night before, since they were alone right now it was good time to clear her doubts.
She previously decided to ask after they confirmed Mylene was the one from the ash nether clan, which already happened, now that there was no doubt about her identity they could trust each other, Aster was worthy of befriend after all.
“Aster, this might not be something that should concern me… but yesterday I saw you two kissing each other, is that some kind of custom in your family, or is there a different meaning to it?”.
Aster saw from the corner of his eyes that his mother was laughing and he thought.
“She did it on purpose… seems like I need to give her a little “punishment” later”.
Lilia feigned ignorance as she took the initiative to answer Eris’s question.
“Both things are true, kissing is a custom for us, when I told you my darling is the head of our family… it was in all the meaning of the words, does it affect your opinion of us?”.
Eris remained silent for a moment, she hasn’t been in love before, so she was in no position to judge.
“I… don’t think you should be judged for who you love, back when I was little my mother used to tell me stories of my father, unlike her which was born into a powerful family, my father was a rogue cultivator so their union wasn’t approved by the elders”.
Eris looked at the sky with a somewhat nostalgic expression.
“They were a couple for nearly four hundred years before my mom gave birth to me… I was only five months old when my father was killed by the people of the ash nether clan, my mother ordered some paints of him, but even when I know how he looked I can’t feel sad because I was too little to remember when he was alive”.
She then put on a weird smile on her face.
“That being said, it is still weird to know you two are dating knowing you are mother and son, are you perhaps doing the same with Alice?”.
Aster cleared his throat.
“Ahem, I’m the first one to accept our family is different than others, but the core is the same, we love and care about each other… so I don’t see any problems, even if others think it’s weird or bad, if a girl is able to make a way into my heart, then I will take her regardless of who she is”.
Eris felt a bit weird, so far, she has seen the different faces Aster has, the first time they met, he was confident as if no matter if she was hostile, he had everything under control, at first, she thought all that came from the fact that Lilia is quite strong, but that changed when she saw him cornering Mylene without any problem.
Then she saw how he treated his “family”, he gave them all the love and care of the world, and yet he was also firm with them about how he didn’t like them to argue for example, also she got to know how trust worthy he is, when he by his own will handed her more of that precious elixir without asking for anything in return.
Lastly, she witnessed how he completely changed in front of enemies, from his usual playful self to a merciless one.
Eris’s thoughts were interrupted when she suddenly realized something.
“Wait if all the members of your “family” are your lovers then… you have that kind of relationship with such a little girl like Kana?”.
Aster shook his head.
“She is a part of my family but I don’t have that kind of relationship with her, Kana is still too innocent for that… that being said technically she is the closest to my actual age out of all the girls you know?”.
Eris eyes widened; she placed her hands on Aster’s shoulders in a hurry.
“Do you mind if I check the age of your bones with my divine sense?”.
Aster shrugged, it was understandable that she didn’t believe him, he looked older and his battle prowess was also not something an eleven years old kid should have.
With Aster’s permission, Eris focused her divine sense on the bones of his arm and she nearly forgot how to breath for the result.
“No way you are by far younger than I thought!!! … star formation realm and you still have yet to start cultivating in a second path”.
Lilia smiled.
“That’s right, isn’t my darling the best”.
Eris sighed.
“The best you say… he is a monster, I thought Aster was at least a star axys cultivator hiding his true realm, even the most talented I know of, couldn’t have beaten a mortal transcending realm while being at the star formation, not without having cultivated on a second path to the same realm at least”.
You could say that Nolan wasn’t really a mortal transcending cultivator, but Aster didn’t fight him seriously, also he hasn’t started cultivating either his body or his soul, so Eris was right in being surprised by her discovery.
Eris doubted for a moment before she said what was in her mind.
“Once I recover, I will be able to break the dimensional boundary to return to my family… if you want, I can take you all with me, you are my benefactor so my heavenly rose clan has to treat you as an honorable guest”.
Lilia nodded.
“Sounds good, but it will be some time before we are ready to “ascend”, so you would need to travel with us until that moment”.
Aster simply kept silent and let his mother “negotiate”, the Drage family was not his last goal, for him they were just a stone on his path, so it was good to start thinking in what they would do in the future.
Eris smiled.
“I’m okay with that, I don’t know anything of this mortal plane and I’m too weakened to be wandering alone in a heavenly quadrant with no one to trust my back, so if you don’t mind, I want to keep traveling with you, my belongings were destroyed but I can teach you divine runes, in exchange… for some more of that elixir if possible”.
Aster immediately accepted, Eris’s knowledge of runes has shown to be incredibly useful, the binding necklace for example, so a bit of his blood is not a high price to pay for such advanced skills.
Lilia smiled, now that Eris will share her knowledge in divine runes with them, her son would get another triumph card… and she will probably get another “sister” in the future.
Their conversation was interrupted when Alice, Aria, Sarina, Kana returned with them, followed by Mylene of course, while Alice and Aria were arguing with each other, Kana was happily humming.
Aster took out his communication talisman and contacted Sylas.
“Old man, our part is done I will return with the girls to the spaceship, I leave a couple trash bags for you here”.
Sylas laughed.
“That’s my son in law for you, leave those two for us, Milia has a good elixir of truth she wants to test”.
The battle was about to end so they all returned to Sylas’s spaceship to rest, as soon as they entered Kana threw herself at Aster.
“Big brother, I won against sister Alice and sister Aria!!!”.
Aster patted her head.
“Hoh, tell me what was the terms of the competition?”.
“When the fight started, we made a bet to see who killed more corrupted beasts they or mom and me, of course it was only for fun, big sisters were winning almost until the end… but then they started fighting against each other hehehe”.
Both Alice and Aria turned their heads to avoid Aster’s gaze, they didn’t take the competition seriously and like always they starting arguing over some meaningless thing, an opportunity which Sarina didn’t let slip, that was the origin of the huge amount of sliced corpses Aster saw earlier.
From the window of the spaceship, they saw Ritz and Adrian returning with David’s head which meant the end of the battle, as cruel as it could sound Sylas didn’t stop attacking until all the spaceships from Riga were utterly destroyed.
This day a continent in Prasil was exterminated, the battle was actually quite easy in the eyes of the people of Luonto, but none of them knew that this opened the gate to something that will bring desperation to them later, but that is a story for another day.