It didn’t take Camila even five minutes to return with two maids, which Lilia somehow recognizes as they were among the ones that delivered food for them.
“The rooms are ready… once you have settled up, please come to the main dining room, I have some things I would like to discuss with you, if you don’t mind of course”.
“Also, if you need anything just ring the service bell, and these two will assist you”, she said as she pointed at the two maids which looked a bit shocked, probably because Camila told them that the young man in front of them was the one in charge of the Azure sky planet now.
Aster nodded and they left, leaving behind a contemplative Camilla.
On the way Kana curiously looked at the castle, this was the place where Aster lived all his life after all, and she wasn’t the only one, Eris and Mylene were also a bit surprised, but for a different reason, although they couldn’t absorb the spirit energy of this plane, they did notice the amount of it was lesser than in Prasil.
Eris’s eyes glowed, her gaze focused on Aster as she thought.
“If he was born in place with a better concentration of spirit energy… or maybe in a divine realm, I wonder how strong he would have been at this point”.
Mylene felt the same, jumping realms is a sign of a genius, but while others can cross one or two, Aster went up a whole notch up and defeated a mortal transcending realm cultivator.
“If he can still do the same later on, then I might be witnessing the start of a legend”.
Aster guided them to the southeast area of the castle, the rooms that the maids prepared for Eris and Mylene where actually the ones Alice and him were supposed to use, but didn’t since they all slept in the same bed at Lilia’s room.
“Make yourselves comfortable and rest for a bit then we will go grab something to eat in twenty minutes”, said Aster as the girls entered the room with the exception of Eris and Mylene which had their own ones.
Eris especially still needed to rest after modifying the formation earlier, she still had to refine the bottle of “elixir” Aster handed to her, but twenty minutes were enough for her to recover enough.
“Got it… we are also interested in that bloodline thing Lilia mentioned, so I hope you don’t mind us tagging along”.
Aster nodded and then closed the door behind him, Lilia’s room was quite simple but comfortable, besides a surprisingly big bed which she could more or less guess its purpose, there was a nightstand and a closet.
What surprised her was that she didn’t see any decorations or personal objects, so it was obvious they originally weren’t going to return to this castle.
Aster shamelessly took off his clothes and changed to more comfortable ones, before throwing himself at the bed, even if the Wolfstein castle wasn’t his favorite place, he had to admit that he got used to live here after all this time.
The girls followed Aster example and changed their clothes to casual ones, Alice’s bad habits showed, unlike the others which put their clothes in the laundry basket she simply let them on the ground and laid down on top of her brother.
“Can’t we just go eat at the fragrant pavilion, that’s the only thing I’m going to miss of this planet honestly, besides the ice princess wants to go and meet her father”, she said as she rubbed her face against Aster’s.
Aster laughed, he caressed Alice’s back and then kissed her.
“Who are you trying to fool, you little glutton of a sister, I’m a bit tired today so we’ll stay at the castle… besides I’m actually interested in what mom said about the Wolfstein lineage”.
Seeing his sister cutely pouting, he spanked her a couple of times.
“Be a good girl, tomorrow I’ll treat you all you want, okay?”.
“Mm ♥”.
Kana sat down next to Aster and she tugged the sleeve of his shirt to draw his attention.
“Big brother, tomorrow can you show me that city called Ghaleria… sister Alice and sister Aria told me you took them to a store where they bought some amazing clothes?”.
Aster saw Kana’s adorable expression, and he smiled back at her.
“Of course, today we’ll rest but tomorrow we will go in a “shopping date”, since we have to buy a lot of things before leaving this star cluster”.
Lilia smiled.
“Sounds good darling, we have to buy food, that’s the only thing I haven’t prepared yet, because I wanted some fresh ingredients to cook for you while we travel ♥”.
After some chatting, they left the room followed by Eris and Mylene, and went to a part of the castle Aster and Alice had never been in before, the main dining room.
Once they arrived Camila was already waiting for them with a table full of dishes of all kinds, the two maids were diligently standing behind her.
As they took seat in front of her, Lilia realized something.
“Now that I think about it, those two were the ones that always delivered the food to me… are they perhaps your subordinates?”.
Camila had a slightly embarrassed expression as she answered.
“They are my personal maids… I saw you kicking Isaac’s ass a couple of times, so I arranged them to work with the kitchen staff, because I didn’t want Isaac to do something stupid and end up involving us”.
“They made sure that the food didn’t have any “surprise” mixed on it before delivering it to you, I hope you don’t take it personally, as the supreme elder my job is to preserve the family after all”.
Lilia nodded, “Not bad, what a shame you weren’t the one in charge here”.
Camila sighed with a slight bitter expression on her face before she shook her head.
“Let’s save that for later, for now please enjoy this meal”.
With that, Aster and the girls dug in, to Alice’s surprise the food had a familiar taste, one she has only enjoyed at the fragrant pavilion, but the dishes weren’t the ones she has seen at the menu of the restaurant.
“Did the fragrant pavilion added new dishes, we were gone only for a few days?”.
“Mm?”, Camila which was eating a piece of grilled fish, listened to Alice and she shook her head.
“No, I was the one that organized the banquet and fragrant senior owed me one, so I asked her to prepare the food, I hope is to your liking”.
Alice didn’t answer, but she repeatedly finishing one plate after another made clear for Camila that the answer was positive, she also noticed Aria’s peculiar hair color and she laughed.
“The Ghale patriarch once bragged me about his son in law… “That brat came to my house and the very first thing he did was sent the guards flying and threatened the life of the first elder”, he said”.
After they finished eating their food, the maids brought some tea before leaving, so now inside the dining room only Aster the girls and Camila stayed behind.
…
After a moment Camila took out two things from her spatial ring, one of them was something Aster knew, the ring Isaac was wearing… but the other one was something he has never seen before, a silver chest with a lock in the form of a big wolf’s head
The mouth of the wolf was opened and the space inside which normally would have had the shape of a key, instead had a space which perfectly fitted the frontal side of the ring.
Camila doubted for a moment before her gaze became determined, she carefully unfolded a scroll she took out of her pocket.
“The Wolfstein ancestor had a little brother, which took the role of the being the first supreme elder, up to this day no one knows why our family ended up in such a miserable state, but this piece of paper was written by the first supreme elder and has been passed down within my side of the family for countless of years”, she said as she handed the scroll to Aster.
The first thing Aster noticed was that although the scroll has been properly maintained, it was really messy, the letters seemed to have been wrote in a hurry… and instead of ink it was written with blood.
Besides a few stains of blood there was only one sentence written on it.
“What’s important is the family”.
Aster nodded, “I agree, but what does this thing has to do with me, I already told you, my surname isn’t Wolfstein”.
Camila put on a bitter smile.
“Besides that, paper, the ring and the chest are the true inheritance left behind by the ancestor, the ring has always been passed down to the patriarch, but the scroll and the chest were kept by the supreme elders”.
“Originally our theory was that the scroll was just symbolic, a reminder that the job of those who took the position of supreme elder was to see for the family, with the pass of the years we tried everything to open the chest but no matter how we tried nothing happened… until nearly one hour ago when the mouth of wolf lock opened revealing that the key is the ring”.
Camila put on the ring in her index finger and inserted it in the lock but nothing happened.
“Honestly when I noticed it, I tried to open the chest, but as you can see it didn’t work, which means I’m not the indicated to do it”, she said as she handed Aster the ring.
“I know you have no reason to help us, but I only ask you to try opening the chest, the contents are yours, I only want to see… the last spec of the glory of the Wolfstein with my own eyes”.
Aster turned to see his mother and saw her nodding at him, he put on the ring and immediately all the surface of the chest illuminated in weird symbols, the kind that normally they wouldn’t have recognized… if it weren’t for the fact that they have seen Eris using them.
“Those are divine runes”, mumbled Mylene as her eyes widened.