While Gerard was screaming due to the intense pain he was feeling on what used to be his eyes, his mind was rushing to process what was happening.
“I couldn’t feel any danger, nor any killing intent, unless there is a hidden expert on the void manipulation realm involved, there is no explanation about what happened!!!”.
As someone who has experienced life and death before Gerard did what his mind was telling him to do… he bowed his head and shouted out loud.
“Respectable senior, if I have offended you in some way please forgive me, I was invited by the Wolfstein family, but I haven’t done anything else, I demand to know the reason of this attack… everyone deserves to know the reason of their death”.
Aster frowned his brows, those words didn’t fit with the judge he had of that old man, what Aster didn’t know or maybe he ignored, was that Gerard has seen the might of a void manipulation realm cultivator before.
When he was young, an expert from the Atria family stayed a few days on the sand mountain sect, his father did some deals with an unorthodox person which turned out to be an evil cultivator, something he thought he buried in the past.
Unfortunately, the Atria family as the one in charge of the whole stellar system captured the evil cultivator and with some “magic” methods, they got a list of those who worked with him.
After judging the whole sect, the law enforcer from the Atria family reached a verdict, “only the supreme elder was involved”, needless to say the result wasn’t pleasant to see, the punishment for colluding with evil cultivator is death.
His father was executed in front of the whole sect to serve as an example, when the elders asked for an explanation, they were told the result of the supreme elder’s actions, a pile of children and women dying a miserable death due to the loss of their blood essence.
The sand mountain sect used to have three peak sea of knowledge cultivators, besides the supreme elder which was executed, all of them had to cripple their own cultivation bases to atone for that sin, also they paid a huge amount in spirit jades to compensate the affected families.
So that’s how he learned the golden rule of the cultivation world, “Don’t disobey the strong”, then he set himself a goal, the only way to clean the name of his sect was to become a part of the influence sphere of the Atria family, and for that he started a campaign of conquer.
Many low star clusters joined them, then he entered seclusion and left everything in charge of the elder David Orkel… and that’s where things were wrong, Gerard never enslaved anyone because he already knew what happened when someone broke the unspoken rules of the Atria family.
Although he was embarrassed of begging for his life, he swore to not fall death before he restored the honor of his sect, so he wanted to know if it was possible for him to survive or not.
Aster’s arms and chest was suddenly clad in a golden armor as he walked towards Gerard, the old man noticed the sound of footsteps and he didn’t move, at this point he knew that his life wasn’t on his hands anymore.
Aster stopped walking next to the old man.
“You lost your eyes because of how you looked at my mother, but if I’m honest with you I didn’t come here for your life, the same for you Kalas Rein”, he shouted at the patriarch of the Rein family which was still in shock after witnessing a youth blinding a powerful sea of knowledge cultivator.
“So I was blinded for looking at something I shouldn’t have… that’s acceptable, so now what’s going to happen?”, asked Gerard in a doubtful voice.
Aster nodded.
“Well, the Rodia star cluster needs a protector, you didn’t try to attack me so you will do a soul oath and I will leave you recover your left eye, Kalas Rein you should thank the heavens for having a good son, Kail asked me to not kill you, so you will also do a soul oath and become a protector for your native land”.
He then turned to see Isaac and his expression became cold as winter.
“You and me on the other hand have a few matters to settle, but for that we need to change our scenario”, after saying that Aster kicked Isaac on the face just with enough force to make him spit blood but without damaging him too much.
Gerard didn’t notice he was getting into the way of someone who was about to revenge, but he still needed to clear one question before making his oath.
“Kid… what is your name?”.
“Aster Drage hurry up with the oath, I have some urgent matters to attend”.
Gerard placed his hand on his chest and then shouted.
“I Gerard Orkel swear to never harm the Rodia star cluster and protect it with my last breath, if I ever go against the desires of Aster Drage, the heavens might destroy me in soul and body”.
Kalas felt a dagger like gaze focusing on him and he did the same oath, while thanking the heavens that son of him which he started appreciating not too long ago, while also giving Isaac some disdaining gazes.
“It seems you thought with the head between your legs instead of the one over your shoulders”, he thought.
When Lilia arrived at the Rodia star cluster she became a celebrity, everyone was marveled by her beauty, men and women equally, but while others understood she refused to accept anyone in her heart, Isaac didn’t take a no as his answer.
And now he will be paying for that, because no one knew what were the limits of the kid on front of him, maybe only Isaac will pay, maybe the whole Wolfstein family will be erased, in any case that wasn’t his problem.
Aster nodded.
“Azure sky planet, tomorrow midday, I want to see you two… ahh just in case take this, if you have anything of this list there might be a reward”, he said as he gave both Kalas and Gerard the list of materials remaining.
Gerard had a weird expression on his face, “I don’t have eyes you know”, he thought.
Luckily for him, Aster didn’t use annihilation when he attacked him, so he only had to use a few elixirs and he would be fine, of course Gerard took Aster’s words very seriously, so he only poured a few drops of an elixir on his left eye and after a couple of seconds his eye recovered.
After that, Lilia waved her hand and the girls along with Aster and Isaac disappeared from Zartia, while Alice, Aria, Kana and Isaac weren’t able to process the travel through the dimensional tunnel, Aster, Eris, Mylene and Sarina could.
Sarina doubted for a moment before she spoke.
“Aster how are you going to deal with that guy?”.
She understood Aster had grudge against Isaac, but she didn’t want Kana to see something too extreme, so she was considering staying out of what was about to happen.
Aster shook his head.
“Don’t worry, I have never used my sword against someone that didn’t deserve it, besides Isaac there is only one more target waiting for me in the Wolfstein family… once I deal with them, everything will be over, we’ll stay with Aria’s family, okay?”.
“Mm”, Sarina smiled and leaned her body against Aster, debts were one thing and mindlessly killing was a completely different subject.
With Lilia’s help it didn’t take them too much time to arrive at the Azure sky planet, more specifically to the caste of the Wolfstein family.
As soon as they appeared, Aster recognized the hallways and decorations he has seen since he was a little kid, Isaac also recognized that this was his own home so he immediately shouted.
“Guards, I’m in danger come!!!”, they were in the throne room, so it didn’t take too much time for the sound of steps to be heard coming from all directions.
All the guards and elders of the Wolfstein family were having a banquet to celebrate the fact that Isaac arranged a marriage with the young lady of some powerful expert, especially Valentine’s mother, Karla, she was all smiles until she heard the hoarse pained voice of her husband screaming from the inside of the castle.
And then when they arrived at the origin of the screams, she saw the three persons she hated the most in the world, Lilia and her children, and then she noticed there was someone laying powerless in the ground.
“Isaac, what happened to you!!!”, yelled Karla.
All the other members of the Wolfstein family drew their weapons and pointed them at Aster and the girls.
“Let our clan head alone”.
Aster smiled, he applied some strength on his foot which was placed on top of Isaac’s back and then spoke in a relaxed voice.
“Good evening members of the Wolfstein family, in case you haven’t noticed it, your patriarch has lost his cultivation, but if you fulfill my demand, I will help him get it back”.
One elder took a step ahead and told the guards to lower his weapons, he saw Lilia standing near the youth which was talking and it wasn’t hard for him to guess the identity of Aster.
The fact that Lilia was stronger than Isaac was well known among the upper echelons of the Wolfstein family, so he had no wish to start a fight he was sure they will lose.
“Speak kid, what do you want in exchange for helping Isaac?”.
Aster smirked.
“Easy, I want that woman to kneel on the ground and apologize to us, also I want one stellar constellation cultivator to die per every time Isaac has tried to cause me problems, in my count that is about 20 of you”.
The face of the elder was pale, the only stellar constellation cultivators present were the elders, and the young man in front of him asked them to just give up their lives as if it was nothing.