After the initial shock that Gerard’s words caused, another one cultivator this time from the side of the Rein family spoke.
“Why should we believe you, for what we know that old geezer could be just an impostor you hired to trick… aghhh!!!”.
Before the guy could finish, he fell to the ground while the sound of bones cracking came from his body.
Everyone looked at Gerard which now had a slightly annoyed expression.
“Let me leave something clear, I’m that kid’s subordinate, besides him and his family no one can order me”.
All the presents looked at Aster to see what would his reaction would be, just to see him flirting with Aria.
Aster stopped what he was doing and then nodded at Gerard, with a wave of his hand the pressure that was crushing the guy that insulted him before suddenly disappeared, he was heavily wounded but his life wasn’t at risk, an incredibly good result considering he insulted a sea of knowledge cultivator.
“So does anyone have any other question?”.
Aster’s calm voice echoed through the whole place making all the ones that still had some kind of doubt felt their hearts clenching.
Unlike other “young masters” they previously met, Aster didn’t threaten them nor spoke useless nonsense and instead directly allowed Gerard to punish the one who insulted him.
Seeing that no one was saying anything, Aster nodded, Kalas Rein then gave some instructions to other members of his family and they took the guy which was bleeding in the floor and took him away.
“Okay, now that there are no more doubts, I will tell you what is the purpose of this meeting”.
“Ghale, Asher, Kraft, Wolfstein, Rein and Orkel, from now and onwards these families will be the ones managing the Rodia star cluster, all the other families will affiliate to one of the previous”.
As expected, Aster’s affirmation created a ruckus, many of the representatives of middle ranked forces and families started discussing between each other.
Although the four families were considered the maximum powers of the Rodia star cluster, not everyone was subordinated to them, many families and other forces simply had commercial agreements with them.
A star axys realm cultivator wasn’t strong enough to rule with iron fist, his spirit sense couldn’t even cover a whole planet, so if others didn’t want to submit there was so much, they could do.
But now Aster was telling them everyone will be unified, so of course many were inconform with him.
Aster coldly smiled seeing the hostility in the eyes of at least twenty stellar constellation cultivators, but he didn’t act yet and instead let Kalas Rein do his part.
“Ahem everyone of you allow me to say something, many of you know Isaac Wolfstein brought the wolf to our door when he convinced the sand mountain sect, but what you ignore is that our Rodia star cluster is at the bottom of the barrel, we are among the worst low ranked star clusters”.
“This idea of unifying the forces has a good reason, unless we get at least ten star tribulation realm cultivators, the moment another star cluster sets their eyes on us, we will be doomed… senior Gerard please tell them what is the fate of a star cluster which has been conquered by other”.
Gerard sighed remembering the actions of the other sea of knowledge ancestor.
“Their resources are stolen and the natives will become slaves or manpower for the winner, as long as the people isn’t used for evil cultivation purposes like blood depraving manuals, the ruler family of the stellar system won’t interfere”.
All the presents imagined themselves with chains around their arms and necks, their lives and deaths at the mercy of foreigners, and felt their scalps go numb.
“My sand mountain sect already conquered some star clusters before, the only one that has managed to repel us is the Aster cluster managed by the barbarian heart sect, and the reason was that they are in charge of all the families and forces”.
“That is because just like the Samira star cluster ruled by my sand mountain sect, the Veluri star cluster ruled by the barbarian heart sect, is aiming to become a middle-ranked star cluster”.
Gerard then explained what he meant with that, although many big families may exist in one star cluster, there was a need for a hegemon to be in control of everything, take the Rodia star cluster for example, they never focused their resources and that’s why no one has reached the star tribulation realm yet.
The hegemon force was usually formed by the strongest families, at the same time this hegemon force was the guardian of the whole star cluster, for middle ranked star clusters and above, wars were only fought by their respective guardian forces.
So, if the Rodia star cluster wanted to survive they needed to follow the same pattern, originally Aster didn’t care about anything of this, but he had a hunch that doing this will bring some benefits to him in the future.
Gerard sat down and then Aster took over.
“From now and onwards, the Rodia star cluster will be the headquarter of the “Terranova” sect, the families mentioned by me will be the main branches and all the other forces will be subsidiaries”.
“Arthur Ghale will be the patriarch, the ancestor will be Gerard, the other positions will be determined by the patriarch”.
Aster then took out a cultivation manual from his ring and threw it at a random person which had the aura of an earth origin realm cultivator.
“Of course, there will be rewards for those who contribute, that is a middle grade sky ranked cultivation manual, something that surpasses the previous better manual available for the public in this star cluster”.
“What!”, the legs of the one that caught the manual nearly gave in, he immediately opened the book and inspected the contents, his eyes glowed as he mumbled.
“This is incredible, the manual of my family can’t compare at all!”.
The cultivator then looked at Aster and humbly said.
“Young master Drage… my Garris family is willing to join the Terranova sect, how many contributions do we need to achieve to get this manual?”.
Aster smiled and waved his hand.
“None, I previously saw you staying quiet while others started discussing, so this is a small reward for that, the objective of a hegemon force is to make the star cluster better, so work hard and prove I wasn’t wrong in giving you that book”.
The man from the Garris family bowed his head and then pledged.
“Oliver Garris swears to never harm the Rodia star cluster, if I ever go against my word may the heavens destroy me!”.
Aster nodded, that was a soul oath which meant he just got the first affiliate for the Terranova sect, then one after the other the representatives started swearing loyalty.
Their expressions were expectant, but unfortunately for them Aster didn’t directly hand anything to them.
“If you want a reward, then work hard, even those who are already cultivating with a manual, won’t repent from joining the Terranova sect, if you want more information about it then ask Arthur later”.
Aster inwardly smiled, no one here knew about body or soul cultivation, so he decided to introduced them, but it will be under his conditions, to join the Terranova sect people will have to pledge loyalty, only those who he would be sure couldn’t backstab him will get to know about the vastness of the cultivation world.
Lilia had a proud smile while she looked at her son, all this was planned solely by him, using a few manuals found in the treasuries of the Riga family, he was going to win the control over a whole star cluster.
Aster saw that no one was doubting anymore, benefits were the most important thing for cultivators after all.
“You are dismissed, but stay in the azure sky planet, your tasks will be assigned later”.
All the representatives nodded and then one by one started leaving the Ghale family grounds, when only the ones in the main seats were left Arthur sighed.
“Kid you could have told me about all this beforehand… I’m going to be really busy from now and onwards”.
Aster chuckled, he threw a ring towards Arthur and then stood up.
“Inside that there are thirty manuals at the same level of the one I gifted, ten at the peak of the sky grade… five of the stellar grade and one of the immortal grade, but is a body cultivation manual”.
Arthur had a confused expression as he asked.
p “What is a “body cultivation manual” and how rare is that immortal grade you mentioned”.
“Well, a body cultivation manual is something you can use to cultivate in a second path besides the one you are currently walking into, and the immortal grade is the best you can find no matter on which star cluster you live”.
Arthur nearly left the ring fell due to the shock, he then shook his head and offered the ring back to Aster.
“That is too precious, I can’t accept it”.