After closing his eyes, Aster entered the mind space, he flew towards the highest point of Hyperion and let his body fall on the bed where Rya was already waiting for him.
His body bounced a couple of times before he accommodated on the bed, Rya laughed at his childish actions, she moved a bit upwards and rested her head on his chest, since she saw him not doing anything with Lilia and the others, she understood tonight was time to just relax and rest.
She looked at Aster and chuckled.
“How come you are not “eating” us tonight ♥”.
Aster smiled, he kissed her and then caressed her hair.
“Even I got tired after spending the whole day at the beach, besides we’ll be going back to the azure sky planet soon, so I wanted the girls to rest since tomorrow we have a lot of things to do”.
Rya rubbed her face against his, and returned the kiss before she closed her eyes, she didn’t have anything against doing lewd things, but she also liked when they just cuddled to sleep.
And just like that while he was being embraced by Lilia and Alice on the outside world and by Rya inside the mind space, Aster closed his eyes to sleep.
They peacefully slept, the fresh breeze of the beach kept helped them have a nice rest, the night went without any problem, Aster only woke up when he felt a slight tickling sensation on his face.
He opened his eyes just to see Rya laughing at him as she used a lock of her hair, to tease his nose.
“Good morning ♥”, she said with a bright smiling expression.
Aster rubbed his eyes to fully wake up, then without any warning he grabbed Rya from her waist and dragged her into his arms.
“Kyaaa ♥”, Rya let out a cute sound due to the surprise, but she didn’t resist at all, instead she just accepted his love.
After a couple of minutes of kisses and gentle caresses, Aster let go of her and stood up from the bed feeling refreshed seeing Rya’s blushed face.
“Mm?”, Aster looked at himself and noticed a slight change which made him smile.
“Finally… I reached the peak of the star formation realm”, he thought.
Rya stuck her tongue at him, “Apparently those little episodes of “euphoria” you, Lilia and Alice experience, also help you advance, of course it’s way more effective for you, maybe that’s why you felt tired yesterday”.
Aster laughed, “Basically I just need to give you all some love and I will get stronger, finally this stupid bloodline is helping me with something, instead of just causing me troubles”.
“Well… your evolution is following your desires”, thought Rya.
Before he left the mind space, Aster doubted for a moment remembering the little experiment he did to use his soul to attack back at the ancient forest.
“Rya, I know you can’t teach me anything above the heavenly conqueror realm… but don’t you have a soul attack technique which is appropriate for annihilation?”.
Rya shook her head, “No… do you remember I was going to help you prepare your star nucleus so annihilation didn’t vanish it?”.
Aster nodded, “Yes, but it wasn’t needed since I discovered annihilation didn’t harm me nor anything related to me”.
Rya smiled, “Exactly, I wasn’t surprised for nothing, no one has been able to use annihilation with soul techniques… and the ones who tried ended up erasing their own souls, but you are an exception to the rule”.
Aster shrugged, “Leaving aside the attribute, the principles behind soul techniques are the same, just give one and then I will adapt it by myself”.
Rya smiled, she waved her hand and a little portal appeared, from which she took out a little crystal.
“This is a spirit slip, it’s similar to the memory crystals used to record the memories of the kings of Luonto, but this one can be used as many times as you want, inside you will see a technique which I think it will up to your liking”.
“Just let a drop of blood fall on it so that only you can use it”.
Aster kept the thing on his spatial ring to use it later, before he left the mind space, outside it was still quite early, so the girls were peacefully sleeping.
Aster carefully stood from the bed without waking any of the girls and left the tent, the breeze of the beach and the sight of the sun rising was quite comforting, he took off his shirt and then stretched his body.
Since he broke through, he felt like doing to do a little training before the girls woke up, the tents were covered with the barrier talismans, so the girls would not be bothered by him.
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The first ones to get up were surprisingly Mylene and Eris, when they left their tents, they were welcomed by the sight of Aster’s shirtless figure flashing through the whole place, he used the different swords which were floating around to slash the air.
“Mm?”, Among the swords Mylene recognized both the one Aster normally use and the dragon booster version he used to break the barrier around the capital city of Riga, she also noticed there was no spirit energy involved, Aster was moving at high speed just relying on his physical strength,
“Phew”, Aster stopped, his body was covered in sweat and he was holding a sword on each of his hands, the swords disappeared and he jumped into the water to clean the sweat from his body.
“Good morning”, said Mylene as she handed him a towel which he used to dry himself, later Lilia will take them back to the mansion and they will take a proper bath anyway.
Eris laughed, “You are taking the role of maid a quite serious”, she thought.
“Good morning you two”, said Aster as he finished drying off.
He couldn’t help but feel a little curious about the cube necklace which Eris was using, since he reached the spirit opening his spirit sense was quite strong, and that thing felt somehow similar to the mind space.
Eris noticed it and she cleared her throat.
“This necklace was secretly given to me by my grandmother gave me when I surpassed the heavenly conqueror realm, is my most prized possession… and apparently, it’s also one of the reasons as to why my and Mylene’s families have been fighting for quite some time”.
“Speaking of that, in Aurelian’s book it didn’t mention why you two were fighting to begin with, so if you don’t mind, I’m all ears”, said Aster as he sat down on the table he prepared yesterday.
Mylene and Eris took seat in front of him, they were going to travel together for quite some time, and once they ascended, they were bound to meet their families whether they wanted it or not.
Eris had a complex expression as she explained.
“Well, there are two versions of the story, our families used to be allies, until the generation of my grandfather… in my story Mylene’s grandfather set a trap to kill and rob my grandfather but the situation didn’t go as planned and they both ended up killing each other”.
“After that we started fighting over every little thing, and with each fight the blood was spilled over the ground making the hatred between the families grew, the first time I knew Mylene it was in a pacific reunion between the families to try and reach a truce but… things went south and you can imagine the rest”.
“The fight continued
Mylene nodded, “As you can probably guess, what I know is basically the same but the other way around, in my family the story says that the Lyselle family betrayed us, they stole a treasure from us and when my grandfather went to recover it, he was ambushed and killed”.
Aster felt a bit amused by the situation, the two families had a version where thy were the ones in right, but it was probably just a fight over some kind of treasure or something along the lines.
“And the treasure mentioned is the necklace Eris is using?”, asked Aster to Mylene.
“Yes, imagine my surprise when I saw Eris holding that thing, when my family has been looking for it during quite some time, but things aren’t that simple… we both fell in a similar situation, I thought Eris was the one that dragged me into that space rift”.
Eris sighed, “And as I previously told u, I thought Mylene was the one that dragged me into the space rift, that’s why I chose to make a truce with her… because if none of us did it, that means someone has been pulling the strings from the shadows”.
Aster looked at the necklace before he turned to see Mylene.
“Your family has the other piece of the necklace, right?”.
Eris also looked at Mylene waiting for the answer which came a couple of seconds later.
“Yes, in my case it’s not something which can be used as an accessory like a necklace, but my family has something with a socket which has the exact same form of that thing, so its safe to assume our ancestors found it together, the treasures were shared and then they found something about those things”.
Aster shook his head, “And that destroyed the peace between your two families”, he thought.