Eris noticed Aster’s expression and she sighed.
“My grandmother told me to not be blinded by hatred when she gave me this necklace, unfortunately she fell ill, so my father took charge of the patriarch’s position and he was furious about the death of my grandfather which resulted in a war declaration”.
“Although I didn’t want to participate there was no other choice and with time, I somehow let myself be dragged into the quarrel of the family and that’s how my fights with Mylene started”.
She then looked at Mylene and frowned her brows.
“Speaking of that, that time we were dragged to this place, my position was supposed to be a secret, so how did you find out where I was?”.
p Mylene shook her head remembering all the times she tried to caught Eris so her family could blackmail the Lyselle family to give up on the necklace, although she didn’t know it’s function.
“The information reached our family and I was sent to take care of it, I did tell my father it was fishy, but my father ordered everyone to do whatever it was needed to get that necklace of yours… it wasn’t in my plans to get trapped in a mortal planet for so many years that’s why I believe someone set us up”.
“Yawwn”, the tense atmosphere immediately disappeared when a cute yawning sound drew everyone’s attention.
Aster turned his head and saw Kana walking towards him, while she rubbed her eyes,
Apparently, she was the only one which woke up because when the entrance of the tent opened, the other girls were still peacefully sleeping on the bed… naked.
Eris and Mylene blushed, originally, they thought Aster was half naked because he was training, but the scene of all the girls sleeping naked in the same bed made them change their opinion.
Eris couldn’t help but steal a couple of glances at his perfectly toned body, but she immediately shook her head to get rid of the thought.
Mylene on the other hand was amazed by a different thing.
“With so many girls together… and he still has enough endurance to train so early in the morning, as expected of a dragon I guess”.
Kana stopped walking next to Aster, her sleepy expression was quite cute, Aster of course noticed what she wanted, so he lifted her by her waist and placed her on his lap.
“Good morning big brother and sisters Mylene and Eris”, said Kana while she leaned the back of her head against Aster’s chest.
Aster patted her head, “Good morning, why didn’t you wake up your mom and the others?”.
Kana stuck her tongue at him, “Because like this I can have big brother for myself ♥”.
Aster smiled, “You are starting to sound like Alice”, he thought.
While Kana was happily humming while sitting on his lap, Aster continued with the conversation.
“Apparently the origin of the conflict are the things your families at a certain exploration, what does that necklace do Eris?”.
Eris grabbed the cube which was the main body of the necklace and she showed Aster the face which was covered in runes.
“Formation cores are extremely precious because normally the runes have to be engraved in the ground or other static things, but with a core you can transport the spirit formation whenever you go, and as long as there is spirit energy on the atmosphere you can deploy the formation as many times as you want”.
Aster nodded, a talisman might seem similar but that is not the case, a talisman can only be used a limited number of times and unlike a spirit formation, once the spirit energy stored inside of the talisman is depleted the talisman will be destroyed.
Lilia’s barrier talisman for example has been quite useful to protect them, but that is because no one has been strong enough to deplete its energy,
She then showed the other faces which were in blank and continued with her explanation.
“This necklace is unique because it can work as a formation core for up to six different formations, something outrageous considering the all the other cores known can only store one formation, maybe that’s why Mylene’s family want to lay their hands on it”.
Mylene shrugged.
“I don’t know, my family has rune masters, but our specialty is alchemy after all, so I doubt that’s the reason as to why we have been at war for so many time… there must be something else”.
Leaving that little episode aside, Lilia and the others woke up not too long after, they dressed up and left the tent, Sarina looked at her daughter giving her a triumphant smile as she leaned her body against Aster and she sighed.
“My own daughter is competing with me for the affect of a boy, that is something I didn’t expect to happen”, she mumbled.
Lilia laughed, “Sounds familiar to me, just wait till she hits puberty, like a certain someone”, she said while looking at Alice.
Alice pouted, “That’s not fair mom, I was the first one to become Aster’s lover you know?”.
Aster smiled seeing the girls getting along like usual.
“Ladies although I’m enjoying this morning as a family, we need to return to the capital, Eris prepare a list of the materials you need to modify the formation, so we can ask Sylas to look for them in the treasury”.
Lilia nodded, “Fine, but first let’s go take a nice bath at the mansion darling, besides you reached the peak of the star formation realm so of course I need to give you a little reward ♥”.
Aster remembered how they all were covered in each other love juices, he more or less cleaned himself when he jumped into the sea, but he still needed to properly wash himself with soap.
He returned all the things included the tents and the grill to his storage ring and Lilia took them back to Hawthorn city, where Eric welcomed them outside of their mansion.
“Brother I was about to contact you; can you help us open a portal back to Zartia… uncle Ritz had a sudden inspiration and he has a chance to break through to the sea of knowledge realm but he needs to do it at the sacred ground of our sect”.
Aster looked at Eris, “Can you do it, if you need it, I can give you another bottle of elixir”.
“No problem I still have some of the ones you gifted previously”, said Eris as she shook her head.
The beast skull approached flying and stopped above the city, Eric extended his hand and handed Aster a map.
“We’ll stop at the azure sky planet for a couple of days, if you reach us there, we can go together to the barbarian heart sect… in case something happens the map will guide you there”.
After saying that Eric bid farewell and he accompanied by Sofia went to the beast skull, which was floating above the city.
Eris waved her hands and a portal opened and Ritz’s spaceship crossed it disappearing from everyone’s sight.
“Phew”, Eris gasped a bit, opening a breach in the barrier was still a bit tiring for her, since she couldn’t replenish her spirit energy, unless she drank Aster’s blood of course.
They went to the mansion, Aster allowed Eris and Mylene to bath first since they were going to take less time anyway.
While they were waiting, Sarina contacted her father so they could prepare a farewell banquet beforehand, it didn’t take long for Sylas’s voice to be heard coming from the communication talisman.
“Lass I’m a few steps ahead of you this time, since those guys from the barbarian heart sect told us they’ll be leaving a couple of hours ago, I ordered the chefs to start preparing something good for you and my son in law hahaha”.
“We are just waiting for you all to arrive at the castle”.
Sarina sighed, “A “yes”, would have been enough as answer you know”, she thought before finishing the transmission.
As expected, it didn’t take long for Eris and Mylene to finish bathing, so Aster and the girls occupied their place.
As soon as Aster closed the door of the bath, the girls started undressing, Lilia didn’t miss the chance to tempt her son, put on a needy expression and spoke in a charming voice.
“Help me take off my underwear darling ♥”.
Aster smiled, approached Lilia from behind and helped her undo the laces of her bra, her big breasts swayed a bit due to the bra loosening up, something Aster found quite sensual.
“Now the lower part please”, said Lilia as she swayed her hips a couple of times.
Aster pulled down her panties, Lilia lifted her right foot followed by the left one and now she was completely naked, her silky black hair made beautiful contrast with her delicate pale skin.
“No matter how many times I see it… I can’t get enough of her naked body”, thought Aster.
Lilia noticed her son’s eyes glued to her and she gave Alice a proud smile like saying, “I’m still the first one”.
Aster noticed his mother and sister having a stare contest and he shook his head before helping not only Alice but even Aria and Sarina undress, Kana pouted since her mother did it for her before Lilia spoke, she had no option but to just see and take note for the future.